Sona Akhundova-Bagirbekova

Sona Abdul gizi Akhundova-Bagirbekova (; 23 August 1886 – 27 January 1982) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet ophthalmologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Doctor of the Azerbaijan SSR (1960), Honored Scientist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1964).

Early life and education Sona Akhundova was born in 1886.

Having graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Moscow State University in 1923, she started to work at the Azerbaijan Scientific Research Institute for Ophthalmology, first holding the position of Head of the Eye Injury Department and then Deputy Director of the Institute for Scientific Work

Career Akhundova-Bagirbekova was considered a highly qualified specialist of the Azerbaijan Scientific Research Institute. She was also a professor at the department of eye diseases at the Azerbaijan State Institute for Advanced Training of Doctors named after Aziz Aliyev. Being a student and follower of the famous academician Vladimir Filatov, Akhundova-Bagirbekova was the first in Azerbaijan and the Transcaucasia to apply the methods of keratoplasty and tissue therapy for a number of eye diseases.

In 1951, Akhundova-Bagirbekova defended a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences at the Azerbaijan Medical Institute on the topic “Corneal transplantation with homogeneous and heterogeneous tissues,” proposing a new way of corneal transplant and a more accessible method of eye preservation.

Akhundova-Bagirbekova was an active promoter of the development of ophthalmic surgery in Azerbaijan and did a lot to raise ophthalmic surgery in the republic to the level of advanced ophthalmological centers. For valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War – 1946 In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – 1970