The Obstetrics and Gynecology course of the Faculty of Pediatrics was established in 1972 with the arrival of Academician I. Z. Zakirov at the Samarkand State Medical Institute (SamSMI). Islam Zakhidovich Zakirov, born on January 21, 1928, in Samarkand, began his career at SamSMI in 1948 as a clinical resident and subsequently worked as an assistant and associate professor. In 1959, he became Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation in 1953 and his doctoral dissertation in 1965, and became a professor in 1967. Zakirov was a member of the Uzbekistan administration, Chairman of the Samarkand Scientific Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a member of the Scientific Council for Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Advisory Council under the Ministry of Health, and the Presidium of the UMS. For more than thirty years, he was an active member of the editorial board of the Uzbek Medical Journal and editor of the BME section. In 1974, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Faculty of Pediatrics was established at Maternity Hospital No. 3, with Professor A. A. Kadyrova appointed as its head. From 1975 to 1995, the department was headed by Professor M. Kh. Khamidov.

  M. Kh. Khamidov, born on May 10, 1932, in Samarkand, began his career at the SamSMI clinic as a resident from 1958 to 1960. From 1960, he worked as an assistant at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of SamSMI. In 1965, under the supervision of Professor Zakirov, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation, and in 1974 he was awarded the academic title of associate professor. At Zakirov’s initiative and under Khamidov’s leadership, an Obstetrics and Gynecology course was organized at Maternity Hospital No. 3 in 1972; it later became a department headed by M. Kh. Khamidov.

  Since October 1995, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Faculty of Pediatrics at SamSMI has been headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor B. B. Negmadjanov. Bakhodur Boltaevich Negmadjanov, born in 1962 in Samarkand into a family of employees, graduated from the Faculty of Pediatrics of SamSMI in 1985. In 1988, he entered a targeted postgraduate program at the IUV in Moscow, defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation in 1991, and his doctoral dissertation in 1993. From 1995 to the present, the Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology No. 2 at Samarkand State Medical University (SamSMU) has been Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor B. B. Negmadjanov. Bakhodur Boltaevich Negmadjanov is the author of 542 scientific works, including 15 teaching manuals, 4 textbooks, and 58 methodological recommendations and guides for physicians. He is also the author of 14 inventions and 18 rationalization proposals. Under his supervision, 60 master’s projects, 18 PhD dissertations, and 2 doctoral dissertations have been defended. He currently supervises 3 research degree candidates and 4 master’s residents.

  Department collaboration: DSc, Acting Associate Professor N. R. Nasimova, PhD, Associate Professor G. T. Rabbimova, PhD, Associate Professor G. B. Arzieva, PhD, Associate Professor Kh. Sh. Shavkatov, PhD, Acting Associate Professor Sh. N. Valiev, PhD, Assistant M. D. Mamatkulova, PhD, Assistant S. Sh. Rafikov, Assistant F. I. Ganiev, Assistant E. Kh. Shopulatov, PhD, Assistant S. E. Makhmudova, Trainee Assistants F. F. Mukhammedova, I. A. Jalalova, N. A. Zoirova.