Livshits (Livschitz) Elizaveta Gershevna (1928, Kyiv) — paediatrician, educator.
After the war and evacuation, Elizaveta Livshits moved to Riga. In 1952 she graduated from the Riga Medical Institute. She earned the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences in 1962 and Doctor of Medical Sciences in 1977.
After graduation and until her retirement in 1991, she worked in practical paediatrics at the Republican Children’s Clinical Hospital and in the Department of Paediatrics at the Riga Medical Institute, holding positions as resident, senior laboratory assistant, assistant, associate professor, and professor. She was awarded the academic title of professor in 1983. From 1981 to 1991, she served as the chief paediatric gastroenterologist of Latvia. In 1991 she emigrated to the United States.
Her research focused on childhood rheumatology, haematology, immunology, genetics, with a primary focus on paediatric gastroenterology. The outcome of her long-term, detailed study of malabsorption syndrome in children was the development of differential diagnosis and treatment methods for these conditions, which were later implemented in paediatric practice in Latvia, Russia, and other former Soviet republics. The results of this work were published in the monograph Malabsorption Syndrome in Paediatric Practice.
Elizaveta Livshits authored over 150 scientific articles in leading paediatric journals of Latvia, Russia, and other countries, and co-authored the monograph Pancreatic Diseases in Children. She holds several patents for original methods of diagnosing digestive system diseases. She supervised four doctoral theses in paediatrics and co-authored the textbook Childhood Diseases, along with numerous methodological recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of childhood illnesses.
Selected works:
Malabsorption Syndrome in Paediatric Practice (Синдром мальабсорбции в педиатрической клинике). Riga, 1979 (co-authored with T. Medne)
Pancreatic Diseases in Children (Заболевания поджелудочной железы у детей). Tashkent, 1990 (co-authored)
Childhood Diseases. Riga, 1984 (in Latvian, co-authored)