Early Life and Scientific Career
On leaving in 1968 189th secondary school of Baku, Lala Shevket entered N.Narimanov Azerbaijan State Medical University and received qualification of a professional physician. Her first scientific publications are attributed to that time. After graduation, she moved to Moscow where she had her post graduation and master course on the surgery chair of Patrice Lumumbe International University under the guidance of world famous academician, professor V.V.Vinogradov.
At 25, she received M.Sc. becoming the youngest M.Sc. in area of surgery in the USSR. Since 1978, Lala Shevket had been working at N.V.Sklifosovsky Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of the First-aid. Lala Shevket traveled a long road from a junior research officer to a leading scientific specialist and the head of the department.
At 37, she successfully defended a Doctor dissertation and became the youngest Doctor of Medicine in the USSR in the area of organizing and administering of health care. She worked as the head of the Department of organization and management of health care in a Scientific Centre of Health Care Ministry of the Russian Federation. The results of her research effectively influenced the development of health care in the USSR and got a widespread international recognition.
She is the author of more than a hundred scientific works. Was invested with the professor title. In 1991, Lala Shevket was officially enlisted by the Russian Prime Minister N. Silayev to work out the concepts of social policy of the country.
Lala Shevket worked as a head of the expert commission of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on the health care legislation, a vice-president of the International Association of Social-Hygienists and Health Care Organisators and also as a member of Presidium of International Eco-Philosophic fund. At the same time, she was awarded an honorary PhD.
Lala Shevket has one son.
Read more about this topic: Lala Shevket
Famous quotes containing the words early, life, scientific and/or career:
“The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“A life I didn’t choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have to do.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)