Oppenheim David (Dawid) Grigorievich (1899, Windau, Courland Governorate – 1994, Moscow) — healthcare administrator and balneologist (specialist in spa and resort medicine). Doctor of Medical Sciences (1973).
David Oppenheim received his medical education at Tomsk University and Moscow University (1918–1924). At the same time, he served as military commissar of the main evacuation point of the 5th Army of the Eastern Front and of the Military Sanitary Administration of the East Siberian Military District. He was also a deputy of the Council of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies in Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk.
From 1924, he held senior positions in the Moscow public health administration. In 1931–1937, he was Rector of the First Moscow Medical Institute. He graduated from the Institute of Red Professors (1933–1936). He was actively involved in party and public work and was elected deputy of the Moscow City Council (Mossovet) from 1925 to 1940.
In 1938–1939, he was subjected to political repression. During World War II (1941–1945), he served as head of an evacuation hospital. In 1946–1951, he headed the Department of Healthcare Organization at the Institute of Healthcare Organization and History of Medicine. From 1951, he worked at the Central Institute of Balneology and Physiotherapy as a senior researcher and later as head of the department for organization of sanatorium-resort care; in 1969–1979, he served there as a scientific consultant.
Selected works:
Reconstruction of Healthcare and the Unified Dispensary (Реконструкция здравоохранения и единый диспансер.). Moscow, 1930.
The Urban Hospital Integrated with a Polyclinic (Городская больница, объединенная с поликлиникой). Moscow, 1949.
Forty Years of Soviet Health Resorts (Сорок лет советских курортов). Moscow, 1957.
Local Health Resorts (Местные курорты). Moscow, 1967.
Methodological Guidelines for the Medical Selection of Patients for Sanatorium-Resort Treatment (Методические указания по медицинскому отбору больных на санаторно-курортное лечение). Moscow, 1971 (co-authored with Yu. E. Danilov).
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