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David Gregorievich Bushmich (pronounced Gregor-eh-vitch Bush-mitch) - born on March 27, 1902 in Kirovograd, Ukraine (formerly Yelisavetgrad), died on October 24, 1995 in Flushing, NY. Dr. Bushmich was an accomplished ophthalmologist, a student of Filatov and a leading Soviet eye doctor of his time. He emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1989.



Education and Training
David was born in March 1902, finished studies at Odessa Medical Institute in 1925, and worked there until 1929 in the ward of eye diseases under the direction of Filatov. He was put in charge of the oncology department in the city of Slaviansk from 1929 to 1935. After this, he was the assistant of the eye disease ward director in Harkov Institute of Doctor Specialties.

Career
From 1939 until 1976, David Grigorevich worked in the Ukrainian Institute of Eye Disease and Tissue Therapy named after the Academic V. P. Filatov as the director of the division for transplantation of the cornea, and then became the director of the clinical department.

Professional Contributions
At the time of WWII, from 1941 to 1944, he worked at evacuation-hospitals and then as the senior scientist of the Turkmensk Trachomatis Institute (no reference found). In 1937, he defended the candidate dissertation on the topic of "Determination of localized changes within the eye depth/bottom" (check translation) and in 1958 he defended a doctorate dissertation "Clinical Partial Transplantation of the Cornea". In 1961 he earned the title of Professor. David Bushmich was the author of more than 170 scientific works on various problems associated with ophthalmology.

Dr. Bushmich's main professional interests revolved around the restoration of eyesight for patients with leukoma (a dense white opacity in the cornea of the eye) and its etiology (origin). He investigated various approaches to dealing with leukoma, developed a classification system which is used by ophthalmologists today.

More to come, including references and Russian news articles, published studies, and photographs.