Leo Boqueria is a unique heart surgeon known throughout the country. He still carries out complex heart surgery and is engaged in the promotion of healthy lifestyle on a scientific basis.
More recently, on December 22, Leo Antonovich Bokeria turned 79 years old. At such a venerable age, he approaches the operating table three to five times a day to give life and health to his patients aged 0 to 96 years.
Childhood
The hometown of Leo (full name Leonid) is the Georgian city of Ochamchira. In 39, Abkhazia was part of the Georgian SSR. At the age of three, the boy lost his father - Anton Ivanovich, oddly enough, he remembers this day. Mom, Olga Ivanovna, had one to raise and raise three children, a young son and two older daughters. The child grew almost on the street, among his peers, but thanks to strict education, he did not acquire addictions.
Education
The teenager graduated from school in the city of Poti and immediately left to continue his education in Moscow, in the 1st MMI. He chose the profession immediately and without hesitation - a man should be a surgeon. And I learned about such specialization as cardiosurgery at the institute. And again, an instant decision came - since the heart is the main organ, then this is mine. While in practice after the third year, he was allowed to conduct operations on his own, so far, however, only appendicitis.
After graduation, Leo continued his postgraduate studies at the same 1st MMI.
Work
Since 1968 he has been working at the Bakulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. In his workbook, there is one single entry about hiring, further - only moving up the career ladder. Starting his career as a senior researcher, he was the head of the laboratory, held the position of deputy director, and for almost 25 years Leo Antonovich - director of the Bakulev National Center for the Arts and Culture.
The main heart center of the country conducts 5700 operations with cardiopulmonary bypass, 50 thousand open heart operations per year. The institute conducts unique studies, develops new methods of treating cardiovascular diseases, invents and applies completely new technologies.
During his work, he wrote a candidate and then a doctoral dissertation.
Professor, engaged in teaching, heads the departments at two institutes.
His working day begins at half past seven in the morning and ends after eight in the evening.
A family
With his future wife, the famous doctor studied not only at the same institute, they are classmates. Olga Alexandrovna has been with Leo for over 50 years.
They got married after graduation, a daughter was soon born, then another one. Both daughters continued the work of their father: one went on the scientific part, the other - on the practical side, treats tiny children. The wife heads the department at Sechenov Academy. Such is the medical family.
Daughters gave grandfather seven grandchildren. The senior grandson also had plans to go to cardiac surgery, but changed his mind about what his grandfather noticed that there were six more in stock.
