Mitalip Mamytovich Mamytov

Mitalip Mamytovich Mamytov (Kyrgyz: Миталип Мамытович Мамытов; born 16 December 1939) is a Soviet and Kyrgyz neurosurgeon.

Biography Mamytov was born on 16 December 1939 in the village of Kök-Jar, Nookat, in the Osh Region of the Kirghiz SSR (modern Kyrgyzstan). His mother raised him after his father died in World War II. He graduated with honors from high school in 1958.

From 1958–1960, he studied at Kyzyl-Kiya Medical College, and from 1960–1966 at Kyrgyz State Medical Academy (KSMA), from which he graduated with honors.

From 1966 to 1971, he completed his clinical residency and postgraduate studies and defended his dissertation on the topic of neurosurgical problems of brain tumors at the A. L. Polenov Leningrad Research Institute of Neurosurgery. He received his Candidate of Sciences diploma in 1972.

From 1971 the president of the Kyrgyz Neurosurgical Association, an honorary member of the associations of neurosurgeons of Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and Honored Worker of Science of Kyrgyzstan.

Academic and surgical work , he is the author of more than 260 scientific works, including 5 monographs, 8 patents, and 5 textbooks, and the scientific supervisor of 2 doctoral and more than 10 Ph.D. theses.

Awards Honored Doctor of the Kyrgyz Republic (1989) In 2002 he was awarded the International Prize "Ruhaniyat" In 2003 he was awarded the Order of Manas, III degree In 2008 he was awarded a World Intellectual Property Organization gold medal In 2011, he was awarded the State Prize in the field of science and technology for co-authorship of the work "Optimization of specialized care for hemorrhagic strokes in the Kyrgyz Republic" On 30 August 2011 he was awarded the title Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic In 2015 he was awarded the Akhunbaev Prize, named after , by the Life Giver public fund Also in 2015, he was awarded the Alykul Osmonov Medal In 2016 he was awarded the Chinghiz Aitmatov Medal In 2017 he was awarded a medal "For Merit to KSMA"