In 1973, he studied Pediatrics at the Kuban State Medical Institute. The Red Army established a course of pediatric infections on the basis of the Children’s Infectious diseases Hospital in Krasnodar. The first head of the course was Igor Alekseevich Kostenko, PhD (1973-1992), a student of Professor Sergey Filatovich Shirokov, Head of the Department of Pediatrics. In 1967, I.A. Kostenko defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Treatment of residual polio in children.” In 1979-1980, a PhD was appointed acting head of the course. Konstantin Vasilyevich Skupchenko, who was elected to the position of a course assistant from the Blagoveshchensk Medical Institute. In 1981, the course was transformed into the Department of Pediatric Infections. Associate Professor, PhD Olga Konstantinovna Alexandrova, who was head of the department from 1981 to 2011, was elected to the position of head of the department. She held the position of Chief Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at the Krasnodar Territory Department of Health. A pediatrician of the highest category. He has more than 130 printed works, acts of implementation, certificates of rational proposals. Olga Konstantinovna paid great attention in her works to the issues of the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of childhood infections, as well as vaccine prevention. Associate professor Tatiana Vasilyevna Sysoeva, assistants Albina Vasilyevna Bochko, Tatiana Yakovlevna Starosotskaya worked at the department together with O.K. Alexandrova. After completing the clinical residency in pediatric infections, Vladimir Andreevich Bersenev, Anna Sergeevna Lyzhina, Alla Grigorievna Lisitsyna, Oleg Vladimirovich Bevzenko, Larisa Viktorovna Dubova worked as assistants at the Department of Pediatric Infections. At the department, teaching of pediatric infections was conducted by assistants Tamara Givievna Baum and Olesya Valeryevna Pervishko, who joined the department after completing their residency in pediatrics. The complex topic of the department’s research was “The functional activity of mononuclear phagocytes in acute respiratory infections in children.” Under the guidance of O.K. Alexandrova, 3 PhD theses were defended (O.V. Bevzenko, A.G. Lisitsyna, L.V. Dubova). Students in the VI courses of mathematics, the IV course of medical and pedagogical research were trained at the castedra. In 2011, the Departments of Pediatrics No. 1 and Pediatric Infections were merged. The head of the department was Professor, MD Shashel Victoria Alekseevna. At the department, the discipline was taught by professors Victoria Alekseevna Shashel, Valery Georgievich Nazaretyan, Nikolai Petrovich Bilenko, associate professors Olesya Valeryevna Pervishko, Tamara Givievna Baum, Natalia Nikolaevna Shchegolevataya. The department has published educational and methodological manuals on topical issues of childhood infections and vaccine prevention. Since September 1, 2019, by the decision of the Academic Council of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Medical Education of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, a new department has been created – the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Associate Professor, MD. Tkhakushinova Nafiset Huseynovna, chief freelance specialist in infectious diseases in children of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory, chief freelance specialist in infectious diseases in children of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for the Southern Federal District, Chief physician of GBUZ “SKDIB” of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory, was appointed to the post of head of the department. In 2017, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “Acute intestinal infections of viral and combined etiology in children: features of diagnostic and therapeutic measures.” Scientific works are devoted to the issues of clinic, diagnosis, and prevention of acute intestinal infections, including rotavirus, norovirus infection, influenza, and enterovirus infection in children. The staff of the department are associate professors, Ph.D. Oleg Vladimirovich Bevzenko, Tamara Givievna Baum, Olesya Valeryevna Pervishko, Assistant, Ph.D. Ali Salman Farkhanovich, assistants Larisa Alekseevna Ledenko, Elena Nikolaevna Golberg. Students of the VI course of the pediatric faculty study at the department in the discipline “Infectious diseases in children”, 2 variable courses “Issues of vaccination prevention in children”, “Modern approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in children” were introduced for the first time. The results of scientific work are regularly reported by the staff of the department at scientific and practical conferences of regional, regional, and All-Russian levels.
Staff of the department conduct active medical work on the basis of the State Budgetary Institution “Specialized Clinical Children’s Infectious Diseases Hospital” of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory, provide advisory assistance to children from medical organizations of all municipalities of the Krasnodar Territory, review the medical documentation of children with infectious diseases.They participate in the work of the immunological commission of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory.