Health-Saving Technologies: The Road to Longevity
Doctors and civilians alike associate ‘medicine’ first and foremost with ‘disease’ or diagnosis and treatment. But in the modern world, with better access to information, people seek to stay young and healthy longer, or in other words, try to avoid getting sick in the first place. For this reason, we need to make our disease-centric model of medicine more health-centric, seek active longevity, and stop disease in its tracks. It’s a model that is trending globally and making active headway in Russia too. And why not, it was in Russia that Alexey Olovnikov developed the world’s first theory explaining exactly how cells age – the telomere theory – subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009. New medical technologies increase life expectancy while also making that life as active and healthy as possible. Doing so requires a knowledge of what causes cells to age and how to prevent it. The techniques should be put into practice early on to remain active for as long as possible. How will age management strategies affect the march of technological progress in medicine? What breakthrough technologies can already be integrated into modern healthcare delivery systems to keep cells active and what technologies are just around the corner? What health-saving principles will be adopted? How can healthcare systems be transformed to make increased longevity an investment and not a burden?
Moderator
Tatyana Golikova,
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Panellists
Vsevolod Belousov,
Director, Federal Center of Brain Research and Neurotechnologies of the Federal Medical Biological Agency
Oksana Drapkina,
Director, National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Olga Krivonos,
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation; Ph.D; Laureate of the Government Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology
Vladimir Mashkov,
Theater and Film Actor; Artistic Director, Oleg Tabakov Theatre
Anastasiya Rakova,
Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Government of Moscow for Social Development
Inna Reshetova,
Chief Physician, Clinic of Preventive Medicine, Academician B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center for Surgery
Front row participants
Konstantin Kotenko,
Director, Academician B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center of Surgery
Oksana Rotar,
Chief Researcher of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Medical Research Center named after. V.A. Almazov" of the Ministry of Health of Russia