Healthy Life

Historically, Russian science has a strong systematic foundation and a unique potential focused on breakthrough discoveries, development of leading technologies, and implementation of innovative products that ensure preservation and improvement of people’s lives. Today, however, the volume of scientific results exceeds that of solutions introduced into practice: research and development do not always reflect the current needs of the public and are not always in demand by the healthcare system. Unfavourable factors for the growth of the Russian medical science include inter-departmental disconnectedness and low innovative activity of business. Thus, results of scientific achievements are poorly integrated into healthcare and a situation of lost opportunities for use of new drugs and technologies is created in society. Building a favourable environment for medical science is a strategic task of the national government policy growth. It starts with systematic analysis of practical healthcare needs, an expert evaluation of research and development, and goes all the way to building strategies for financing and introducing scientific achievements into the healthcare system. The year 2020 has given a special standing to international cooperation in development of medical science, setting the course toward sharing experience and looking for new growth paths, and that means restoring the status quo of Russian science among the leading global scientific countries.
● How well does the Strategy for the Development of Medical Science in the Russian Federation until 2025 correspond to the goals of strengthening the industry’s positions?
● Solution of which problems will promote the advancement of the level of fundamental and applicable scientific research and growth of the scientific human capital?
● How can innovative activity of Russian business be increased and the share of R&D in the national pharma industry enlarged?
● What state strategies should promote expedited introduction of scientific research results into practical healthcare?
● How can the process of integrating Russian medical science into the global science community be expedited?

Moderator
Evelina Zakamskaya, Editor-in-Chief, Doctor Channel; Anchor, Russia 24

Evelina Zakamskaya

Editor-in-Chief, Doctor Channel; Anchor, Russia 24

Evelina Zakamskaya was born on November 17, 1977, in Baku, and graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Tver State University. She is a presenter for Radio Mayak and for Mir, a television and radio company. Since 2006, she has been an anchor for television channel Russia 24. She writes and presents Mnenie (Opinion), a talk show covering social and political issues, and Idei, menyayushchie mir (World-Changing Ideas), a series of popular science programmes. Evelina Zakamskaya moderates Russia 24 sessions at major international forums. Since 2017 - Editor-in-Chief, Doctor Channel. She is married with two daughters.

Panellists
Petr Glybochko, Rector, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Andrey Kaprin, Director, Federal State Budgetary Institution National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Lazar, Chief Scientific and Operating Officer Worldwide Innovative Network Association - WIN Consortium (online)
Alla Samoylova, Head, Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor)
Tatyana Semenova, Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation
Veronika Skvortsova, Head, Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation
Shahrokh Shariat, Chairman, Department of Urology of the Medical University of Vienna (online)

Petr Glybochko

Rector, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Andrey Kaprin

Director, Federal State Budgetary Institution National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

· Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of RAS, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation.
· Director General of the National Medical Research Radiological Centre (NMRRC) of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Director of the P.A. Herzen Moscow Cancer Research Institute, a branch of NMRRC.
· He is one of the leading specialists in the Russian Federation in the field of diagnosis and treatment of oncological diseases. Throughout the scientific and therapeutic activity, Andrey Kaprin conducts a purposeful development of modern methods of surgical and combined treatment of kidney, bladder, prostate and other localizations.
· Since 2014, Andrey Kaprin is heaing the first Russian scientific medical cluster in the field of oncology - the Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Medical Research Radiological Centre" of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, which was established on the basis of three leading medical centers - P. Herzen, A.Tsyb MRRC, and N. Lopatkin Research Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology.
· At present, being the head of the NMRRC of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, being an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in oncoradiology, he supervises the development of nuclear medicine, radiology and radiotherapy in our country. He has taken charge of most complex and promising areas in the industry: the technical re-equipment of the radiation therapy departments of the regions, the creation of a program and a center for the development of contact methods of irradiation, the introduction and expansion of the first national medical proton center in the country, the introduction of modern methods of training specialists in radiology and radiotherapy, iIncluding telecommunication training and master classes in the regions, many of which are conducted by himself.
· Every year Andrey Kaprin performs over 300 complex surgical interventions for various oncological diseases.
· He has trained more than 300 doctors, including residents and graduate students. Under his leadership, 27 dissertations for the degree of candidate of medical sciences and 9 doctoral dissertations were prepared and successfully defended. The result of many years of hard work was the publication of more than 700 printed scientific works.

Alla Samoylova

Head, Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor)

Born in Cheboksary.
1990: Graduated from the Chuvash State University named after I. N. Ulyanov with a degree in medicine.
2002: Awarded with the badge “Excellent Worker of Public Health”.
2007: Honored doctor of the Chuvash Republic.
2010: Doctor of Science in medicine.
2012: Professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
1987-1990 – nurse, obstetrician-gynecologist at the industrial hospitals in Cheboksary.
1990-1993 – Full-time postgraduate study at Chuvash State University.
1993-1994 - Assistant at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the Chuvash State University.
1994-2012 – Chief Doctor of the Presidential Perinatal Center of the Ministry of Health and social development of the Chuvash Republic.
2010-2017 – Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology named after G. M. Vorontsova, of the Chuvash State University.
2012-2015 – Deputy Chair at the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic - Minister of Health and Social Development of the Chuvash Republic.
2015-2017 – Minister of Health of the Chuvash Republic.
2018-2019 – Adviser to the Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare.
2019-2020 – Head of the Department of State Control of Implementation of State Healthcare Programs, the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare.
2020 – Director of the Project Activities Department, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Since April 10, 2020 - Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare.

Veronika Skvortsova

Head, Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation

Veronika Skvortsova was born in Moscow on November 1, 1960.
She graduated from the 2nd Pirogov Moscow State Medical Institute in 1983 and completed a Postgraduate Clinical Residency Programme and an Advanced Postgraduate Programme specializing in neuropathology. In 1994, she qualified as a higher category neurologist.
After graduating, she worked for the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute (the Russian State Medical University since 1991) for 25 years.
Veronika Skvortsova became head of one of Russia’s first neurology emergency services at Moscow’s 1st municipal hospital established on the basis of the neurology clinic of the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute in 1989.
In 1989–1995, she served as assistant and, in 1995–1997, as assistant professor at the Neuropathology Department of the Russian State Medical University.
She became Head of the Fundamental and Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery Department in 1997.
Veronika Skvortsova was appointed Director of the Russian Stroke Research Institute in 2005.
She was Deputy Minister of Healthcare and Social Development from 2008 to 2012.
Veronika Skvortsova was appointed Minister of Healthcare by Presidential Executive Order No. 650 of May 21, 2012.
She is vice-president and co-founder of the National Stroke Association, director of the World Stroke Organization and secretary general of the European Stroke Council.
She is a Doctor of Medicine, Professor, and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Veronika Skvortsova is an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
She has been awarded an Order of Honour and won the Pirogov Prize and Moscow Government Prize in Medicine.
She is the author of more than 400 research papers and holds seven patents for her inventions.

Front row participants
Dmitry Kudlay, General Director, Generium
Simon Matskeplishvili, Deputy Scientific Director, Lomonosov Moscow State University Clinic; Member of the Board, Russian Society of Cardiology
Vadim Merkulov, Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise, Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Dmitry Kudlay

General Director, Generium

MD, professor
Academic background
University: Medical University, Novosibirsk
Department and Qualification: General medicine, doctor
Professional background
1996 - 1999 – Director, the hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Novosibirsk
2000 - 2004 – Managing positions in Marketing & Promotion, Russian pharmaceutical industry
2004 - 2013 – Deputy General Director (Marketing & Promotion), PHARMSTANDARD (the largest Russian pharmaceutical company)
2013 - present – General director, GENERIUM
Membership and Awards
• Member of the Government Subcommittee on the Circulation of Medicines
• Member of the working group on the Eurasian Economic Commission drug market, MoH
• Member of the Expert Council for the Development of Pharmaceutical and Medical Industry, Ministry of Industry and Trade
• Member of European Respiratory Society
• Winner of the Russian Federation Government Award
Dmitry Kudlay is the author of more than 70 scientific articles in peer-reviewed Russian and foreign publications.

Simon Matskeplishvili

Deputy Scientific Director, Lomonosov Moscow State University Clinic; Member of the Board, Russian Society of Cardiology

Simon Matskeplishvili, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, is a Professor of Cardiology and a Chief Scientific and Clinical Researcher at the Bakoulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow and an adjunct professor of life sciences at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
He also serves as a member of the Education, Certification and Accreditation, European Communities Committees of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.
He graduated with honors from the Moscow Medical Academy in 1994 and had his postgraduate training and fellowship in cardiology at the Clinico-Diagnostic Department of the Bakoulev Center.
In 1997-1998 he received a degree of the International Master in Cardiology from the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the National Research Council of Italy in Pisa.
Simon Matskeplishvili is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He has received numerous honours and awards, both in Russia and internationally, including the European Cardiology award in 2001. He is a founder and a Chairman of the echocardiography section of the Russian society of cardiology. In 2007 he became a full professor of cardiology.
For the development of new non-invasive method of intracardiac blood flow evaluation in 2012 he was awarded a State Prize of the Government of Russian Federation in science and technology.
In 2013 he was a captain of the Russian team to win an ESC Cardiology Quiz “Primus inter pares” at the European Congress of Cardiology in Amsterdam.
In 2012 Professor Simon Matskeplishvili had organized and implemented the Educational Program for cardiologists and internal medicine physicians in Moscow. He also conducts an English-language elective course “Amazing Cardiology” in cardiology, cardiac surgery and cardiovascular imaging at the Faculty of Medicine of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The Board of the European Society of Cardiology has appointed Simon Matskeplishvili as the Coordinator of the Congress Programme Committee of the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2015-2016.

Vadim Merkulov

Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise, Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of Molecular Biology
Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise, Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Born in 1970 in Bryansk. In 1994, Dr. Merkulov graduated from Smolensk State Medical Institute. After graduation, he served in the Russian Armed Forces.
Scope of scientific interest:
Expert study of pharmaceuticals, molecular biology; molecular diagnostics of viral infections; research of antiviral agents using genetic engineering techniques; experimental immunology. Dr. Merkulov is a developer of diagnostic products for detection of several causative agents of particularly dangerous viral infections, as well as routine treatment for influenza. He authored more than 100 scientific papers and holds 9 patents.

Career:

• Dr. Merkulov held research positions while serving in the Russian Armed Forces.
• Since 2008: part-time Professor of the Department of Medical Nanobiotechnology at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University.
• 2010–2015: First Deputy Director General at the Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
• Since 2015: Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise at the Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.