Mitalip Mamytov
Mitalip Mamytovich Mamytov (Kyrgyz: Миталип Мамытович Мамытов; December 16, 1939) is a Soviet and Kyrgyz neurosurgeon. Biography. He was born on December 16, 1939 in the village of Kok-Zhar, Nookat district, Osh oblast of the Kirghiz SSR. His father died in World War II. Mitalip was brought up by his mother. He graduated with honors from high school in 1958. In 1958–1960 he studied at the Kyzyl-Kiya Medical College, in 1960–1966 – at the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute, from which he graduated with honors . In 1966–1971 he passed clinical residency and postgraduate studies with the defense of  his Candidate’s dissertation of neurosurgical problems of brain tumors at the Leningrad Research Institute of Neurosurgery named after A.L. Polenov. He received a diploma of Candidate of Sciences in 1972. Since 1971 (according to other data since) until 1973, he was in charge of the Department of Neurotraumatology of the Republican Clinical Hospital in Frunze (now Bishkek). In 1973–1976, assistant professor, in 1976–1988 associate Professor, then Professor of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute (now Kyrgyz State Medical Academy (KSMA), from 1998 to the present (in 2017), head of the Department of Neurosurgery  at KSMA. He defended his doctoral thesis on neurosurgical problems of brain tumors in 1987 in Kiev. He received the title of Doctor of Sciences in 1988. From 1997 to 2002 he was Pro-rector for research of Kyrgyz State Medical Academy; from 2002 to 2005 he was Health Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic; from 2002 to 2007, he was Rector of the Asian Medical Institute. He is an Academician and member of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. He is the President of Kyrgyz Neurosurgical Association, honorary member of the associations of neurosurgeons  of Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Honored Worker of Science of Kyrgyz Republic. Scientific, pedagogical and practical activities. As of 2017, he is the author of more than 260 scientific works, including 5 monographs, 8 patents, 5 textbooks, scientific supervisor of 2 doctoral and more than 10 Ph.D. theses. Subject of scientific works: brain tumors, craniocerebral traumas, herniated intervertebral discs, neurosurgical aspects of inflammatory diseases of the brain, neurogenic degeneration of internal organs. He performed more than 10,000 operations on the brain and spinal cord.