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‘I just set higher standards and reach them trying to get to the heart of the matter’

21 Dec Dec 2021
2021
Tatyana Gizatulina, MD, PhD, Head of Scientific Department of Heart Rhythm Disturbances, Professor of Methodological Department, cardiologist of the highest category of our Center, told about her career in science.

1980: graduation with honors fr om Tyumen State Medical Institute. According to the professional allocation, she was sent to the ambulance station, to Yalutorovsk town, Tyumen region.
1984-1986: Dr. Gizatulina completed residency on Cardiology at All-Union Cardiological Scientific Center of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, A. L. Myasnikov Institute of Clinical Cardiology, Moscow. (‘Exactly here I fell in love with cardiology and realized that it is my vocation!’)

She told that residency completion certificates were personally handed in by Academician Chazov E.I. and this was very important to her. Now Dr. Gizatulina realized that they were responsible for what had been invested in them by Evgeny Ivanovich Chazov and their teachers. She shared that it was difficult to imagine that people of those rank would devote so much precious time of their lives to come to an unfinished building of our Center, to outlying town of Siberia, so as young and inexperienced physicians could obtained knowledge and experience at the highest expert level! What was more, all specialists would be grateful all their lives to those outstanding people and scientists. Standards had been raised high. Having taken that relay race, they were obliged to pass it on to young specialists: to those who would be after them.


1986-2001: Cardiologist, Scientific Researcher, Head of Department, Scientific Supervisor at our Research Center

2001-2018: Head of Department of Surgical Treatment of Complex Heart Rhythm Disturbances and Pacing at Tyumen Regional Hospital No. 1.

Since 2018: Head of Scientific Department of Heart Rhythm Disturbances at our Center.

 Tatyana Prokopevna reminisced the time after her birth (she was born on February 18, 1957), when her father had been sent on duty fr om Tyumen to Khanty-Mansiysk, where they had been living for 10 years. She really loved the city of childhood, which gave many joyful moments; fair-minded friendship Her Dad wanted them to have an aspiration to become better, to set high standards for personal growth. For example, he wanted her sister to join his beloved mathematics, so she studied at the correspondence mathematics school of Moscow State University. He wanted his daughters to study music, so Dr. Gizatulina graduated from Music school.

  She said that nowadays, music was an integral part of life, the main enjoyment. Someone read, someone liked painting, poetry, and she adored music, awaking bright feelings, motivating, regulating the mood. One of the brightest childhood impressions was her father's gift, it was a piano. She played the piano every day for many years. Her dad was the person who shaped Tatyana Prokopevna’s personality, although when he suddenly passed away, she was only 11 years old.

In Khanty-Mansiysk, her mother worked as a Senior Nurse in the district hospital; and Anna G. Kutuzova, MD, psychiatrist, The Head of Department of the same hospital, was a big friend of Dr. Gizatulina’s family for many years. They adored her: she was second God, a very interesting, erudite person with whom her family could talk about everything. She thought us to love reading amazing stories of Irakli Andronikov, she was a real fan of him. After their moving from Khanty-Mansiysk to Tyumen, each of her visits to them was a huge holiday. It was thanks to Anna Grigorievna that Dr. Gizatulina’s sister became a psychiatrist, and Tatyana Gizatulina followed in footsteps of Tamara, who was an absolute authority for her. Her sister chose the Tyumen Medical Institute. At first Dr. Gizatulina’s even tried to go to workshop psychiatry, but then she chose therapy, and then cardiology. Having chosen cardiology science, she recognized general clinical and cardiological practices were not enough, narrow focus of diseases at cardiology center didn’t allow getting practical experience. At the same time, she realized that at that stage she could bring more benefit to practical health care and desired to organize Arrhythmology Department on the basis of newly built Multidisciplinary Regional Hospital No. 1 in Tyumen to provide emergency care. Having received the support of Chief Physician of Regional Hospital No. 1, she made not easy decision for herself in 2001. Department of Heart Rhythm Disturbances was opened, wh ere emergency and high-tech care was provided to patients with arrhythmias.

It was a very good clinical school, wh ere there were many difficult patients, often "at the intersection" of specialties, when a decision was made by physician’s team of various specialties and, accordingly, treatment was carried out in cooperation. There were often situations when it was necessary, having used her own intuition and minimum of objective data, to make a quick decision together with physician who called by phone of the Center for Disaster Medicine from remote area of ​​the region. It should be mentioned she was scared: how not to make the mistake of not seeing the patient personally, relying on the information of colleagues, who, as a rule, was not even a therapist! This was a huge responsibility. As a rule, the first decision, the intuitive one, turned out to be correct. Dr. Gizatulina understood that intuition had been based on practical experience, work at ambulance service, correct books, having read on time, observance, ability to analyze.

Unrealized love to creative work prevailed. She thought that she could do something else in science and, having accumulated practical experience, decided to return to our Research Center. Dr. Gizatulina was very welcome, because many of those with whom she had started continued to work there. She explained that if you were used to solve all questions analytically, working in practical health care, you would always be deficient in scientific activity and scientific environment. And vice versa, when person was engaged only in scientific work, but the desire to help specific people persisted, then knowledge in related specialties, healing skills and practical experience would appear. Having applied knowledge other way in medicine, carrying out scientific processes, in her opinion, was difficult. If she hadn’t worked in practical health care for 17 years, she shared, she would have regretted about it.

Doing science for her meant very natural need to organize in some way surrounding professional space in particular way. To her mind, to cure people, one’s needed to be well versed in own subject. Ambitions concerning that matter were nothing.

An object for scientific research was prompted by life itself, since there were so many patients having suffered from atrial fibrillation. This was especially real at emergency care service. People needed help and wanted to try to do something useful in that direction. She told that scientific issue was aimed at identifying new approaches to preventing atrial fibrillation development, increasing effectiveness of treatment with catheter ablation, and reducing the risk of adverse outcomes in the form of thromboembolic complications

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The most difficult thing for our colleague was situation when she invented something, and then it turned out that someone had already been ahead of her and published the idea. Her favorite was the study for new patterns, when puzzles were put together into a single picture, when an intuitively being built concept was confirmed. But at the same time, anyone always needed to maintain critical thinking so that a scientist might understand that there was somebody in the world who had been on the path of solving a problem or closer to solution.


She gave details on issue of doing science: it was learning from others, reading a lot and admiring the process how others worked. As for her, science was, first of all, like-minded people who lived in different parts of the world and who thought the same way. Dr. Gizatulina caught herself that she felt extraordinary gratitude to colleagues who studied huge amount of literature and published systematic reviews in the sphere she was interested in, so our scientist could quickly make up for a lack of knowledge and direct herself in the right way.

She considered doing science was being a pedant in everything and at the same time enjoyed the learning process itself the whole life.
Gizatulina T.P. shared that she tried to do her best in everything and she was considered a perfectionist. Physician told that she didn’t try to be superior than others; she just set higher standards and reached them trying to get to the heart of the matter, whatever the scientist did. She said that the main thing was to be in tune with yourself, to have inner peace, confidence that you did the right thing.

The meaning of life, as she told, to feel yourself useful for people, and happiness was happiness and health of loved one. Gizatulina T.P.  mentioned that her mother was 94 years old, she lived with our scientist’s family. Her husband Stanislav Alivaevich was an electronic engineer, he was sympathetic, intelligent and kind person. He was a typical tech worker, but at the same time, a great romantic and expert of poetry, he never ceased to amaze with his erudition. Our scientist let know that both of them loved music: her husband introduced her to rock music, and she encouraged him to hear classical music. His son named Vadim was 24 years old; he was on the path of his master's degree in mathematics at Moscow Higher School of Economics. He made the choice of specialty himself. Despite the fact that he was passionate about fundamental mathematics, he could simultaneously act as a moderator in a poetry competition for readers on Internet forum, compiling a whole collection of poems in Russian, French and English in several days. Recently, he expressed his thoughts out loud that he would like to return to Tyumen in near future with his team of like-minded people in order to found a scientific mathematical school in Tyumen. His recent speech made parents very happy, because they understood that the main thing in life was to do with interest what somebody really loved. The rest issues, of course, were also important. Gizatulina T.P. wanted her son to find himself, live in harmony with himself and be useful to people.

In conclusion Dr. Gizatulina said that she would advise her young colleagues not to build a career per saltum, but to become a professional in your field: medical or scientific. If you became a professional physician and you had an inner insight to do science that was the best alternative! Well, the main advice from our Dr. Gizatulina was to study, study and study.



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