On December 14, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced at a meeting of the Moscow Government that he had been appointed the new head of the capital's health department. Leonid Pechatnikov.
Leonid Mikhailovich Pechatnikov — President and Chief Physician of the European Medical Center, MD, Professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, member of the IOC Medical Commission and Director of the Department of Medical Support and Doping Control of the Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic and XI Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014.
Graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute in 1979. Sechenov University, where he completed his residency in internal Medicine in 1981.
From 1981 to 1987 he worked as an associate professor at the Military Medical Faculty at the Central Medical Institute.
Until 1994, he worked as Chief Internist at the Central Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR, and from 1994 to 2001 he served as Chief Internist at the Medical and Diagnostic Association of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, from where he moved to GKB No. 67 in Moscow, where He was the Chief Therapist until 2004.
In 2004, he started working at the European Medical Center as the Chief Physician.
Leonid Pechatnikov was engaged in teaching — he taught a number of courses at the Russian State Medical University, Leonardo da Vinci University (Paris, France), the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he was one of the founders of the Department of Mathematical Modeling in Healthcare and Medicine at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics. He was awarded the medal "Defender of Free Russia".
The mayor instructed the new head to primarily deal with tenders for the purchase of medicines and programs for the modernization of healthcare. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of pediatric medicine.
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