70th Anniversary of Asya Tuleubayevna Dyusembayeva, Professor of the S.R. Karynbayev Department of Normal Anatomy

Asya Tuleubayevna has been working in the Department of Normal Anatomy at the S.D. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University since 1981 and has over 45 years of research and teaching experience. She has established herself as a highly qualified specialist with deep theoretical knowledge in the fields of human morphology and anatomy.

She was born in 1956, at a time when the Kazakh Republic, and indeed the entire Soviet Union, were establishing new horizons for the future and the present. Asya Tuleubayevna chose a path of particular depth for herself—the path of a pediatrician, an anatomist, and a scientist. Having graduated from the Pediatrics Department of the Almaty State Medical Institute in 1979, from the very first steps of her career, she distinguished herself not simply as a doctor, but as a person with a true calling—to heal.

Asya Tuleubayevna Dyusembayeva’s life is like a delicate anatomical map of the human spirit, where every sinew is a path to service to science, every vessel a vein of devotion to the profession, and her heart an inexhaustible source of kindness and knowledge.

Her professional path, like an ascent to a mountain, where every step requires precision and courage, led her from a local doctor in Talgar to a professor in the Department of Normal Anatomy at the S.D. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University. Asya Tuleubayevna joined the department in 1981 as an assistant, and in 1995 she became a senior lecturer, defending her PhD dissertation in 1999 on “Age-Related Dynamics of Physical Development of Preschool-Age Children Taking into Account Environmental Factors in Almaty.” In 2004, the Higher Attestation Commission awarded her the academic title of Associate Professor of Medicine. She spent over ten years working on her doctoral dissertation, conducting experiments, carefully analyzing the results, and consulting with Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russia, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Yu. I. Borodin, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor A. A. Idrisov, and Head of the Department of Normal Anatomy No. 2 at KazNMU, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor B. N. Nurmukhambetova. In 2011, she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on “Morphofunctional Changes in Lymphoid Organs under the Effects of Ecotoxicants and Their Correction (Anatomical and Experimental Study).”

For over four decades, she honed science, imparting its meaning and soul to students, for whom she became not just a mentor but a living example of dedication. Asya Tuleubayevna’s scientific research is more than just pages in dissertations and publications; it contributes to the understanding of the most complex processes in the human body. She has completed a PhD and doctoral dissertation, authored over 200 scientific papers, and participated in international conferences in the CIS and abroad—Germany, Israel, Egypt, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Portugal—and her scientific views and conclusions have been enthusiastically received everywhere. She has three scientific articles listed in Scopus and Web of Science. Her research has become valuable milestones at the intersection of anatomy and ecology, pedagogy and Medicine.

Asya Tuleubayevna also held a fairly responsible position at the university, serving as secretary of the cycle methodology commission, secretary and chair of the Educational Programs Committee of the Morphological Disciplines Department, member of the university’s Central Methodological Council, and member and head of the publishing group of the School of General Medicine 1 and 2.

Like a skilled sculptor shapes an image from marble, Asya Tuleubayevna shapes new generations of doctors: with the precision of an anatomist and the warmth of a teacher. She has introduced 13 innovative teaching methods and created textbooks, including “Age-Related Features of the Child’s Skull,” “Anatomy of the Respiratory System,” and “Graphological Structures of the Anatomy of the Upper and Lower Extremity Joints.” She lectured and conducted practical classes in English, combining scientific rigor with linguistic flexibility.

Her achievements include the respect of her colleagues, the appreciation of her students, and scientific ideas that continue to live and develop. Among the prestigious Her awards include the silver and gold medals of KazNMU, the “Uzdik Tulek” (Best Professor), “Engbek Ardageri” (Best Professor), and the “Kazakhstannyn Altyn Kitaby” (Best Professor) medals. In 2017, she was recognized as the “Best Professor of the Theoretical Department.”

The name of Asya Tuleubayevna Dyusembayeva will forever resonate in the history of Kazakhstani medicine as a symbol of intellect, resilience, and a profound love for her work. She is more than just an anatomy professor. She is the living heart of science, the beating heart of the entire Kazakh medical school.