page_title: Pauls Stradiņš
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Pauls Stradiņš / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Latviešu: Piemineklis ārstam (prof.) P.Stradiņam, Rīga, Pilsoņu iela 13 This is a photo of cultural heritage monument of Latvia number 83.
context_page_description: Pauls Stradiņš was a Latvian professor, physician, and surgeon who founded the Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga.
context_section_description: Stradiņš' name is borne by his museum— Pauls Stradiņš Museum for the History of Medicine —as well as by several other institutions, including the Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital (since 1958) and the P. Stradiņš Health and Social Care College in Jūrmala (since 1989). In 1998, the Riga Medical Institute was reorganized and renamed Riga Stradiņš University. The name was affirmed by Latvia's Parliament, the Saeima, in 2002.
  Stradiņš was a many-sided physician, active in surgery, oncology, physiotherapy, pharmacology, blood transfusion, urology, and dieting, as well as health care administration. He introduced many modern diagnostic and treatment practices to Latvia and investigated new methods for the early detection of cancer. He was also a member of the editorial boards of three leading Soviet medical journals: Klinitcheskaya Medicina, Eksperimental'naya Chirurgija, and Voprosy onkologiji. He published about 80 scientific papers in Russian, German, Latvian, Polish, Finnish, Lithuanian, and English, and a three-volume, Russian-language edition of his selected works was issued posthumously from 1963–65. 
  He received the Latvian "Croix de la Reconnaissance" in 1938, and the Soviet Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1956. He was a Merited Scientist of the Latvian SSR (1945) and an honorary member (1957) of the N. Pirogov Society, the oldest Russian association for surgeons. 
  The Pauls Stradiņš Award—established in 1983 to honor merits in the history of medicine, and in 1991 to honor merits in medical practice—is Latvia's most prestigious award in the medical sciences.
caption: Monument to Stradiņš at the Hospital that bears his name
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