Tatyana Dmitrieva

Tatjana Borisovna Dmitrieva (Russian Татьяна Борисовна Дмитриева; born December 21, 1951 in Ivanovo, USSR; † March 1, 2010 in Moscow) was a Russian physician, psychiatrist and politician.

Biography

The daughter of a couple doctors studied post-school medicine at the State Medical Academy Ivanovo, which she completed in 1975. Then she acquired after a further admission as a psychiatrist. After she completed further training at the State Medical Academy in Ivanovo and in hospitals and the State Scientific Center for Social Psychiatry and Psychiatry court in Moscow. At the same time carried out her PhD with a dissertation on psychopathy.

In 1976, she began her professional career as a staff member at the State Scientific Center of Social and court psychiatry, its director finally in 1990. In this role, she was also since 1992 Head of the Department of Social and court Psychiatry of the Medical Academy of Moscow and since 1995 Deputy Chairman of the Psychiatric Society.

On 22 April 1996 she was appointed Minister of Health in the government of Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin and held that office until shortly before the end of Chernomyrdin's term of office on 6 March 1998. At the same time it was between 1996 and 2000 also chairman of the Commission for Health at Security Council of the Russian president.

In 1999, their choice for deputies of the Duma. Most recently, she was also chairman of the psychiatry section at the Academic Council of the Ministry of Health and Chairman of the Council for dissertations of the Scientific Centre for Social and legal psychiatry.

Dmitrieva, who authored more than 300 technical papers during their career, in 1997 first and then 1999 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences ( Российская академия медицинских наук ) and was also awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.