Sofiya Lisovskaia

She was the first Russian woman - Professor of Urology and the founder of the Urology Chair at the First Leningrad Medical Institute (currently, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg).

In 1917, she organized the First Leningrad Medical Institute (her alma mater, renamed after the Russian Revolution) the Privatdozent courses on urology at the Chair of operative surgery headed by Professor A.A. Kadyan (1849-1917).

In 1923, her courses were reorganized into an independent Chair that she headed until her death.

[1][2] She published 86 papers throughout her career, including her doctoral thesis on thyroid transplantation, an immunological technique for diagnosing gonorrhea, and applications of classical conditioning to the treatment of enuresis (bladder incontinence).

[2] Her book "Триппер и методы борьбы с ним" ("Gonorrhea and the methods of fighting it") was first published in 1926 and had six consecutive editions.