Zulfiya Umidova

Zulfiya Ibragimovna Umidova (; 1897, Tashkent — 16 April 1980), was a Soviet cardiologist and a corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.

Biography She was born on June 1, 1897, in Tashkent. From 1918 to 1920, she worked at the 159th Evacuation Hospital of the People's Commissariat of Turkestan in Tashkent, and from 1920 to 1922, she worked as an instructor for the People's Commissariat of Health.

In 1930, she returned to the Tashkent Medical Institute, where she held the position of an assistant and later an associate professor at the hospital therapeutic clinic (1937–1944). and later, she became a Distinguished Scientist and Technologist of Uzbekistan.

Works She was a specialist in the fields of physiology and cardiology. Her initial works in cardiology, both as a sole author and in collaboration with Professors G.F. Mankus and I.A. Kassirsky, dedicated to the electrocardiographic study of malaria and avitaminosis. She also studied the external respiratory system and the oxygen therapy room, equipped with oxygen tents and a centralized oxygen supply.

She authored 80 scientific works, including three monographs: "Issues in Climatophysiology" (1939), "Physiology and Pathology of the Cardiovascular System in a Hot Climate" (1949), and "Essays on Cardiology in a Hot Climate" (1975). Honored Doctor of the Uzbek SSR (1945)

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