Activity of the Pediatric Scientist, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine B. Ya. Reznik, as it Reflected in Archive Documents

The scientific-organizational and social activities of the corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine B. Ya. Reznik, founder of the modern Odessa pediatric school, the information potential of scientist documents for research in the history of world pediatric science are analyzed in the context of the study of his personal archival fund, stored at the Institute of Archival Studies of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. It was determined that under the scientist' supervision, a complex of researches at the molecular-cellular level was performed to study the processes of bioenergy and the state of cell membranes, and the mechanisms of formation of pathological processes and diseases were widely studied. B. Ya. Reznik' researches enriched pediatric science with new ideas in the field of hematology, gastroenterology, cardiology, nephrology, laid the groundwork for the creation of the program of differentiated metabolic therapy of hypoxic conditions in children with acute pneumonia, respiratory distress syndrome, and played an important role in reducing child and infant mortality in Ukraine. The active scientific and social activity of the scientist contributed to the organization and opening of the multi-disciplinary Odessa City Children's Treatment and Prevention Center. It was found that B. Ya. Reznik contributed to the widespread introduction of fundamentally new methods of perinatal diagnosis of congenital and hereditary diseases, on the basis of a complex of clinical, radiological, cytogenetic, immunogenetic, biochemical and biophysical methods of research. Under his leadership, a series of clinical and experimental works were conducted on the stabilization of cell membranes in various pathologies in children using leading technologies and advanced drugs. The scientist has proposed fundamentally new methods of perinatal diagnosis of hereditary diseases, such as cystofibrosis, hemophilia, phenylketonuria. Introduced monitoring and computer diagnostics of birth defects; advanced methods for predicting the birth of a sick child.