Amur State Medical Academy Celebrates the 75th Birthday of Olga Alekseevna Mazharova

Olga Alekseevna Mazharova, Associate Professor of the Department of Radiation Diagnostics and Radiation Therapy with a Course of Oncology at the Amur State Medical Academy, Excellent Healthcare Worker of the Russian Federation, radiologist and ultrasound diagnostician, founder of the Amur Regional Public Organization for the Prevention of Cancer and Assistance to Cancer Patients "Towards Life", celebrates her 75th birthday today.

Colleagues, friends, students, representatives of the Public Chamber of the Amur Region, the organization "Towards Life" and everyone who knows and loves Olga Alekseevna came to congratulate the talented doctor, teacher, mentor.

Olga Alekseevna spoke about her choice of profession and life path in an interview.

Olga Alekseevna knew from early childhood that she would be a doctor. Perhaps, it could not be otherwise, because she was surrounded by doctors: her mother was a doctor, her father was a medical worker, a medical equipment engineer. My father worked all his life with medical equipment, X-ray equipment, after the war he installed devices throughout the Amur Region. Therefore, little Olga often played doctor, gave injections to her favorite teddy bear, saved animals and birds.

— In the ninth grade, we wrote an essay "What I want to become" — a letter to myself in 10 years. And I wrote that 10 years have passed and I am a doctor, a surgeon, but this specialty has made great progress and now operations are performed to remove the pathological focus at the very beginning of any disease. At that time, there was no concept of "laparoscopy", but even then I predicted my future. Later, I worked for many years as a radiologist, and then as an ultrasound diagnostics doctor with surgeons, with urologists. They carried out operations under my guidance. I helped to see the focus, put a needle in this place, participated in laparoscopic operations," says Olga Alekseevna.

After graduating from school, Olga Alekseevna Mazharova applied to the Blagoveshchensk Medical Institute. She is not afraid to tell you that she did not manage to enter the first time.

— I studied very well at school. And this was the first serious trouble in my life. For a year I worked at school No 4 as a laboratory assistant in the chemistry class and studied at preparatory courses at the medical institute. And I entered, graduated with honors. All the years of study, I studied in the histology club," Olga Alekseevna recalls.

In the fifth year, Olga Alekseevna got married. She met her future husband at the beginning of her studies. Then a daughter was born in a family of young doctors. According to the distribution, the family went to work in the Chita region. Olga Alekseevna chose the specialty of a radiologist. My husband worked as an ENT doctor. Three years later, a son was born and the Mazharovs returned to Blagoveshchensk.

"I was invited to work as a radiologist in the third city hospital, four years later I became the head of the department. I often went to study. In Moscow, at the Institute of Proctology, I saw the possibilities of ultrasound. We did not have such devices and specialists back then. I wanted to combine X-rays and ultrasound, because it provides very great opportunities for research. In 1989, Galina Vladimirovna Rozhkova, who is now the chief physician of the Rehabilitation Center, took me on for training. Later, the first ultrasound machines appeared.

Then there was a period of work at the Amur Regional Clinical Hospital, appointment as the chief freelance specialist in ultrasound diagnostics of the Amur Region under the Ministry of Health. After 15 years, Olga Alekseevna was invited to work at the Department of Radiation Diagnostics of the Amur State Medical Academy.

In 1995, Olga Alekseevna experienced a severe shock - her husband, Nikolai Leonidovich Mazharov, by that time, the head of the ENT department in the children's regional hospital, died tragically. She was left alone with two children in her arms, helping elderly relatives - her mother-in-law, her father and aunt.

In this difficult time, the head of the Department of Faculty Therapy, Valery Fedorovich Ushakov, offered to finish writing the dissertation, which Olga Alekseevna had already begun to write a little earlier. In 1998, the defense of the dissertation took place.

Olga Alekseevna was brought to the oncologic dispensary by another misfortune - one day she herself discovered a malignant tumor. Having overcome all the fears associated with a serious disease, Olga Alekseevna remained to work in the oncology dispensary. Later, together with Doctor of Medical Sciences, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Professor Viktor Petrovich Gordienko, she began to introduce all types of radiation diagnostics into her work and continue this work to this day.

To overcome a serious illness with the help of an active lifestyle (not without diving into an ice-hole) and music, Olga Alekseevna was helped by her second husband, Vladimir Mikhailovich Shatkovsky.

After the illness, the couple went to a sanatorium in Kaliningrad, where they met the head of the community that deals with women who have suffered cancer. So in the Amur Region, a regional public organization for the prevention of cancer and assistance to cancer patients "Towards Life" appeared.

The girls, as Olga Alekseevna affectionately calls her wards, are engaged in art therapy, draw and sing, read poetry, hold exhibitions of their works, support each other and have been true friends for many years.

Olga Alekseevna's family has several generations of doctors. Daughter, son, niece work as doctors, granddaughter is graduating from the medical academy this year.

Olga Alekseevna wishes her today's students to study well and develop in the chosen direction.

— I always tell students that they need to be thoughtful about subjects, starting with biology, anatomy, histology — this is the basis of everything. And each patient should be treated as an individual. Everyone has their own disease, their own development, and no one person repeats the other. It is necessary to take into account the characteristics of each person. And for this, you need to know all medical disciplines well," says Olga Alekseevna.