Zelenin

Zelenin, Vladimir Filippovich (born in 1881), prominent clinical therapist, director of the Medico-Biological Scientific Research Institute of Glavnauka and the Therapeutic Clinic of the Second Moscow State University. Graduated from Moscow University in 1907. In 1911, he defended his dissertation on "Changes in the electrocardiogram under the influence of pharmacological agents of the digitalis group" (Moscow, 1911) and published a number of original studies (partially in collaboration with A. Gofman) that elucidated the essence of the electrocardiogram. Zelenin was the first of Russian clinicians to apply electrocardiography as a clinical research method. From 1913, Zelentin was an assistant professor at Moscow University; in 1918, Zelenin was one of the founders of the Higher Medical School, where he served as dean and director of the propaedeutic, and later the faculty clinic, and from 1924, director of the Clinical Institute of Glavnauka (now the Medico-Biological Institute). Editor-in-chief of the "Medico-Biological Journal" (M.-L., since 1925). To Zelenin's credit are about 50 printed works (including "Clinical Lectures", M., 1916).