Anis Alyavi

Anis Lutfullayevich Alyavi was born in Tashkent on 28 July 1947. He graduated from the Tashkent State Medical Institute in 1971 and worked for two years as an internist in the medical service of the Central Asian Railway. From October 1973 to 1976 he did postgraduate study at the A. L. Myasnikov Institute of Cardiology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow.

From 1977 to 2012 he worked at the Tashkent Medical Institute (the Tashkent Medical Academy from 2005) as assistant, associate professor and professor, and from 1991 to 2012 headed the department of faculty and hospital therapy. He received the title of professor in 1990 and has been a professor of the same department since 2012.

In 1999 he became director of the Ministry of Health’s Republican Specialised Scientific and Practical Medical Centre of Therapy and Medical Rehabilitation and held the post until 2017; he is later listed as adviser to the director and head of the centre’s cardiology laboratory. He chairs the Association of Therapists of Uzbekistan and several scientific councils on internal medicine.

Sources put his publications at more than 500 (later accounts say over 850); he is the author of monographs, textbooks and guidelines and has trained several dozen doctors and candidates of science.

In 2017, around his seventieth birthday, he was given the title Honoured Healthcare Worker of Uzbekistan, and in the same year he was elected a full member (academician) of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.