Healthy Life

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when an urgent need arose for the hospital beds to be converted for different uses, for mobilization of personnel resources, rerouting of patients, introduction of clinical recommendations, and remote monitoring of the condition of patients’ health, the deficit of competent healthcare organizers capable of effective management decision-making became an acute issue. The professional community has long since been discussing who should manage healthcare institutions: doctors or efficient managers without a medical education. Where to find competent head doctors: “grow” them within a medical institution, poach them from competitors or work with those appointed from above? Are the Russian regions short of management personnel? What is the difference between a head doctor and a leader? Does a leader have to be born or can they be the result of professional growth and learning leadership skills? What are the best practices today in management of medical institutions and how can they be rolled out? Which management training programmes should educational institutions develop? Could mentorship become a basis for creating an efficient manager of a medical institution?

Moderator
Ruslan Khalfin, Director, Institute of Leadership and Healthcare Management, Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health; President, Society of Healthcare and Public Health Specialists

Ruslan Khalfin

Director, Institute of Leadership and Healthcare Management, Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health; President, Society of Healthcare and Public Health Specialists

Ruslan Khalfin is Director of the Higher School of Healthcare Management at the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, a medical doctor, Professor, winner of a State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology, Honoured Doctor of the Russian Federation, and Actual State Councillor of Russian Federation, 2nd class. He worked for more than 30 years in healthcare in the Sverdlovsk Region. He has also worked in the central office of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, and has held the post of Deputy Minister under three federal ministers. He has been actively involved in reforming the sector, and was one of the originators and implementers of the national ‘Health’ project. For the past 11 years he has been President of the medical insurance company MAKS-M, part of the MAKS Insurance Group. Chair of the Board of the Russia-wide public organization ‘The Russian Association for the Organization of Health and Public Health’.

Panellists
Alexey Bezymyanny, Head of the Directorate for the Coordination of Medical Organizations of the Moscow Healthcare Department
Armais Kamalov, Director, University Clinic, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of the Urology and Andrology Department, Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Nikolay Nikolayev, Chief Physician, Federal Centre for Traumatology, Orthopaedics, and Endoprosthesis of the Russian Ministry of Health
Andrey Svistunov, First Vice-Rector, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Khubezov, Chairman of the Health Protection Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Shkarin, Rector, Volgograd State Medical University of the Russian Ministry of Health

Alexey Bezymyanny

Head of the Directorate for the Coordination of Medical Organizations of the Moscow Healthcare Department

Armais Kamalov

Director, University Clinic, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of the Urology and Andrology Department, Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Director of the Medical Research and Educational Centre of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Head of the Urology and Andrology School of the Department of Fundamental Medicine of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Medicine, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation.
The central focus of scientific research and practice:
Armais Kamalov’s scientific research focuses on urology, andrology and fundamental medicine. He is the author of many research papers, including monographs, textbooks, books, manuals, and patents for inventions. He is the author of many research papers, including monographs, textbooks, books, manuals, and patents for inventions. He was a scientific advisor of 5 doctoral and ten master’s theses. In 1992, he passed Candidate’s thesis defence, in 1998 – PhD thesis defence. Both focused on scientific rationale and introduction of radically new endoscopic methods of treatment of urological diseases.
Many years of scientific research and medical practice Armais Kamalov devoted to the development and implementation of high-tech minimally invasive methods of diagnosis and treatment of urological diseases, which significantly improved the outcome of treatment of many urological disorders.
In recent years, he has been devoting much attention to establishing a new medicine based on an interdisciplinary approach to solving men's health problems and improving reproductive health. Through his direct involvement, the organization of a programme to protect the health of the male population, including the setting up specialized medical clinics was successfully implemented in the regions of the Russian Federation.
Honours, awards
• Medal for Labour Valour (1997)
• Order of Honour 3rd Class (2006)
• Winner of the Prizvanie (Vocation) National Award ‘The Best Doctor of Russia’ nomination ‘For Breaking a New Medical Ground’ (2006)
• Lopatkin Award Winner ‘For the Contribution to the Development of Russian Urology’ (2007 & 2012)
• Medal ‘For Contribution to International Cooperation’ (2011)
• State Award ‘For Active Citizenship and Valuable Contribution to the Public and Political Life’
• Excellent Worker of Public Health (2012)
• Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation (2016)
• Certificate of Appreciation ‘For Merit to the Urban Community’ (2019)
Armais Kamalov is a prominent scientist, teacher, top ranking urologist, who have mastered the most advanced treatment of urological diseases, a thought leader home and abroad. He is a well-regarded professional in public and professional communities.

Andrey Svistunov

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

Dmitry Khubezov

Chairman of the Health Protection Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Front row participants
Maria Butareva, Professor, Institute of Leadership and Healthcare Management, Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health; Chief Physician, Beauty Trend Clinic of Cosmetology and Plastic Surgery
Ekaterina Kakorina, Professor, Deputy Director, Institute of Leadership and Healthcare Management, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Victoria Madianova, Deputy Director, Institute of Leadership and Health Care Management, Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health
Sergey Timofeev, Chief Physician, Magadan Regional Hospital

Victoria Madianova

Deputy Director, Institute of Leadership and Health Care Management, Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health