Yu.E. Veltischev. An outstanding pediatrician ahead of his time

Abstract

The article is devoted to the outstanding pediatrician — Professor Yu.E. Veltischev, the head of Moscow Research Institute of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery (now — Scientific Research Clinical Institute of Pediatrics, bearing his name) for many years. All achievements of Yuri Evgenievich were aimed at the future: genetics, immunology, preventive medicine, age physiology, molecular and cellular biology, homeostasis and enzymology, environmental pediatrics, telemedicine etc. Yu.E. Veltischev paid great attention to the anatomical and physiological characteristics of children, he emphasized that the pediatrics should be aimed not only at a sick child, but, above all, at a healthy child, its growth and development, biological and social adaptation, and the state of immunity. Yuri Evgenievich paid great attention to the issues of ethics, deontology and bioethics in pediatrics, pointing out that during the outstanding achievements of biotechnology, the preservation of the moral and ethical foundations of society, the protection of human values, primarily culture, science, education remains the issue of the day.