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Koshurnikova, Nina Aleksandrovna
Nina Aleksandrovna Koshurnikova (Нина Александровна Кошурникова) born 24 December 1926, is a Soviet and Russian scientist, radiation epidemiology and occupational pathology specialist. Doctor of Medicine (1979). Professor (2006). A team of authors including Nina Aleksandrovna had for the first time explored pathogenesis of plutonium-induced pneumosclerosis and had demonstrated that this disease is one of the types of radiation pneumonitis. Author and coauthor of 230 scientific works including 5 monographs. Was a doctoral advisor for one Doctor of Medicine and 8 PhD in medicine and biology.

Education and early life
Nina Aleksandrovna was born in Tomsk, USSR. Her father was a prominent scientist, engineer, researcher Aleksandr Mikhailovich Koshurnikov (1905-1942). She was a student of Novosibirsk Medical Institute from 1944 to 1949.

Career and research
After graduating worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist in MSO#71 of the Third Main Directorate of USSR Ministry of Health, Ozersk city, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Clinical residency training and postgraduate education took place in the Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the USSR Ministry of Health from 1953 to 1956. After defending her PhD thesis in 1958 was assigned to work at the Branch #1 of the Biophysics Institute of the USSR Ministry of Health (starting from 2005 – Southern Urals Biophysics Institute of the FMBA of Russia) in the Morbid Anatomy Laboratory. Starting from 1995 she is a Chief Scientific Researcher of the Institute and currently is working fruitfully in the Laboratory of Radiation Epidemiology established in 1992 based on her own initiative and with her direct involvement. The medical-dosimetry Registry of Mayak PA personnel, the Children Registry for assessing health status of the 1st and 2nd generation offspring of production workers and of the children population of Ozyorsk residing in the Mayak PA affected area, the Registry of cancer cases in Ozyorsk residents diagnosed starting from 1948 were established following the initiative of N.A. Koshurnikova.

Interests
Koshurnikova's research interests have included:
 * late effects of radiation exposure;
 * medical effects of occupational exposure to trans-uranium radionuclides, 239Pu in particular.

Personal life
Resides in Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast.

Awards and honours
Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971), “For Merit to the Fatherland” IV class (2003), the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970), Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984); official merit badges: “Excellent Healthcare” (1964), “Veteran of the Atomic Energy and Industry” (2002), “Gold Cross” of the FMBA of Russia (2016); the badges: “A.I.Burnazyan” (2011), “For Contribution to Science” (2021). Winner of the Award from Chelyabinsk region Governor (2016), Honorary Citizen of Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Oblast (1983).

h-index
Her h-index in the International bibliographic and reference database Scopus as of 17.05.2022 reaches 17.

Links

 * Koshurnikova Nina Aleksandrovna // Chelyabinsk region: Encyclopedia / edit.board K.N. Bochkarev – head of edit. Board, chief editor, etc. — Chelyabinsk: Kamenny Poyas, 2008. — V. 3. — P. 436. — 831 p. — ISBN ISBN 978-5-88771-069-3.