Professor Feofil Gavrilovich Yanovsky (1860-1928) was in charge of the Department of hospital therapy in 1904-1905. He mainly developed issues of bacteriology, tuberculosis and nephrology.
The Department of Hospital Therapy from 1908 to 1921 was headed by Professor Konstantin Illarionovich Korovitsky (1861-1921). His scientific work is mainly devoted to blood changes in infectious diseases and rheumatism.
From 1921 to 1930, the Department of Hospital Therapy was headed by Professor Vladimir Emelyanovich Stavraki (1877-1932). During this period, enzymatic and metabolic processes were studied at the department. V. E. Stavraki's doctoral dissertation is devoted to the study of enzymatic functions in the body during removal of the pancreas.
In 1930, because of introduction of a four-year course of study, the department was closed and reopened only in 1934.
Professor, Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Mikhail Aleksandrovich Yasinovsky (1899-1972) headed the Department of Hospital Therapy from 1934 to 1956. With the advent of M. A. Yasinovsky, the work of the department, especially research, significantly revived. The range of scientific problems that the department dealt with at that time included rheumatism, Botkin's disease, the clinic and treatment of erythremia.
Associate Professor Pavel Lazarevich Ginzburg headed the Department of Hospital Therapy from 1956 to 1959, he paid much attention to improving the clinical examination and treatment of patients. He is the author of 24 scientific papers that are devoted to issues of internal pathology: the content of potassium, calcium in internal diseases, the effect of distilled water on blood composition, and the clinic of recurrent endocarditis.
From 1959 to 1966, Professor Gavriil Feodosievich Boyko (1904-1974) was the head of the Department of Hospital Therapy. Attaching great importance to the ECG method, he widely introduced it into the clinic. He defended his Ph.D. thesis "The importance of ECG in the assessment of acute disorders of the coronary circulation" (1955), and in 1969 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Changes in the heart in rheumatism (according to ECG data)".
Professor Lyudmila Iosifovna Aleinikova (1923-1981) - Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, laureate of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR, headed the Department of Hospital Therapy from 1966 to 1981. On her initiative, the clinic was equipped with modern equipment, a department for the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction was opened with an intensive care unit and resuscitation service, where resuscitation was carried out for the first time in Odessa,
The department turned into a city cardiology center, under the leadership of which the cardiological service of the ambulance station worked, a department for the rehabilitation of patients with coronary heart disease was created. The department actively developed the problems of marine medicine, began to study in depth the features of the occurrence, development, course, treatment and prevention of diseases of the cardiovascular system in sailors.
Professor L. I. Aleinikova is the author of about 200 scientific papers on the diagnosis, clinic and course of diabetes mellitus, the prevention of coronary thrombosis, the use of fibrinolysin to prevent myocardial infarction, and the problems of marine medicine. The staff of the department intensively developed the problems of the course of acute pneumonia in patients of various age groups.
From 1982 to 2006, Professor Vladislav Mikhailovich Yurlov (1940) was in charge of the Department of Hospital Therapy. He is the author of more than 160 scientific papers on the problems of hematology, diagnosis, treatment and the state of hemocoagulation in patients with diseases of the blood system, the use of magnetic and laser therapy in cardiology. In 1992, the Department of Hospital Therapy became the largest
clinical department of the Medical University, which trained general practitioners. The scientific directions of the department were the development of the problem of cardiomyopathy, an in-depth study of magnetic laser therapy for coronary heart disease, hypertension, the study of the influence of the long-term consequences of the Chernobyl accident on health, the role of intracellular infection in the genesis of many diseases and the development of methods for their treatment.
Since June 2006, the Department of Hospital Therapy of ONMedU has been headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Zolotareva Natalya Artemovna.