Healthy Life

According to WHO estimates, following the basic tenets of a healthy lifestyle could prevent up to 80% of non-communicable diseases. In an effort to prolong youth and reduce the risk of chronic diseases, people have concluded they need to form a new mindset of their lifestyles. Work to create a desire among the public to adhere to a healthy lifestyle should not only involve altering certain behavioural patterns, but should be carried out at the level of an expert study with preventive measures and treatment for diseases caused by such lifestyle factors as bad habits, an unhealthy diet, a lack of physical activity, chronic stress, or destructive social bonds. Lifestyle medicine brings together the interests of the state, business, and society and aims to change the socio-cultural environment by integrating healthy routines into people’s everyday lives. What aspects shape the lifestyles of modern residents of major cities and can they be described as healthy? How can we instil a mass commitment to healthy habits? What is the best way to build accessible infrastructure so that people have the opportunity to lead a healthy lifestyle? Will a commitment to a healthy lifestyle become the fundamental behavioural model for all of society?

Moderator
Sergey Oblozhko, Host, TeleDoctor Programme, Doctor TV Channel; Psychotherapist; Nutritionist

Panellists
Natalya Goncharova, Founder, European Nutrition Centre; Creator, Employee Care Programme
Mariya Grudina, Ideologist, Founder, First Line. Health Care Resort
Elena Istyagina-Eliseeva, Deputy Chairwoman, Commission of the Russian Public Chamber on Physical Culture and the Promotion of a Healthy Lifestyle

Mariya Grudina

Ideologist, Founder, First Line. Health Care Resort

Maria Grudina graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in 2008 with a major in World Economics. In 2014, she completed the program “Management in the international hospitality industry” at the Russian-Swiss business school SWISSAM.

In 2018-2019, she completed the Leadership Development Program at the Skolkovo Business School.

Maria has been working in the field of real estate and hospitality for more than 10 years, and for 3 years in healthcare.

Since 2009, she worked as Executive
Director of the non-profit organization called “Real Estate Market Consumer Center” and was the CEO of the “Life” hotel.

In 2016, Maria began her work with the “Pioneer” group of companies, and founded the project “First Line. Health Care Resort ”. Maria is developing this project to the present. The launch of the resort took place in January 2018. The official opening with the participation of the Governor of St. Petersburg was held on the Day 0 of the Economic Forum on May 23, 2018. The project became the leader of preventive rehabilitation in St. Petersburg and Russia in a short time. As part of the work of the First Line, in November 2018 the first international conference on prevent age in St. Petersburg was held with the support of the SPB Government. More than 3,800 people have attended health improvement programs at the resort.

In 2019, she received the award “Influential Women of St. Petersburg” from Business Petersburg, and won the Sobaka.ru magazine award “TOP 50.Most famous people of St. Petersburg”.

Maria is married with three children, speaks English and French, enjoys Pilates and healthy lifestyle. She has written a short stories book, and studies the methodology of thinking.

Elena Istyagina-Eliseeva

Director, State Museum of Sport

Front row participants
Dina Gaizatullina, Deputy General Director for Government Relations, Innotech Group
Anna Yefremkina, Certified Trainer, Romana’s Pilates, GYROTONIC, and GYROKINESIS Systems Coach
Irina Moroz, Psychotherapist and First-Class Nutritionist, Regional Clinical Specialized Psychoneurological Hospital No. 1; Doctor of Medical Sciences
Marina Panfilova, Chief Physician, Centre for Public Health, Medical Prevention, and Information Technologies

Dina Gaizatullina

Deputy General Director for Government Relations, Innotech Group