Healthy Life

Can anyone in the 21st century not suffer from stress? Is there anyone among us who has learned to cope with stress as fast and unnoticed as possible? How to get rid of anxiety when constantly within the information flow? Stress is detrimental to the immune system, when stressed out people pick up infections more often, but is stress really so harmful or is this assertion merely a stereotype and incorrect perception of any person’s normal state? Can stress be beneficial? Scientists have shown that stress stimulates people’s initiative, allowing more intensive use to be made of a person’s potential, promotes development and motivates. Moreover, stress increases activity and improves memory. So what exactly is this stress and why can’t we live without it? How to learn to cope with stress and develop stress-resistance? What methods exist for handling stress?

Moderator
Olga Kobyakova, Director, Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Olga Kobyakova

Director, Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Panellists
Maria Afonina, Vice Rector for Learning Activities of Educational Center SENEZH (“Russia - the Country of Opportunities” Project)
Sergey Bagnenko, Rector, Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Alexander Kalinkin, Director, Sleep Medicine Centre; Cardiologist; Sleep Therapist, Medical Research and Education Centre, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Alan Kaluyev, Director, Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, St. Petersburg State University; Doctor of Biological Sciences; Professor
Vladimir Samokish, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Sergey Chudinov, Honoured Coach of Russia; Head Coach, Russian National Luge Team

Maria Afonina

Vice Rector for Learning Activities of Educational Center SENEZH (“Russia - the Country of Opportunities” Project)

Sergey Bagnenko

Rector, Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, PhD, M.D.,Professor
Was born on 22nd September 1957. In 1980 he graduated from Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov. He studied in clinical residency at naval and hospital Surgery department. S.F. Bagnenko served as part of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. In 1990 he defended his PhD thesis and in 1998 his doctoral thesis.
In 1998 became a director of the St. Petersburg I.I. Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine. In 2005 he was elected as a corresponding member of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and in 2011 he became an Academician of the RAMS (now RAS). He is main free-lance specialist in emergency medical services of the Russian Federation Ministry of Health. In 2012 he became an acting rector, and in 2013 a rector of FSBEI HE I.P.Pavlov SPbSMU MOH Russia.