Date of birth: November 04, 1962

Citizenship: Russian Federation

Current Positions:     
Senior Research Fellow, Consultant-Lipidologist
Federal State Institution “Russian Cardiology Research Complex” of  Federal Agency of Health Сare and Social Development     
Clinical Cardiology Institute named by A.L. Myasnikov, Department of  Atherosclerosis                                       

Education:     
1980-86   M.D. Tomsk State Medical  Institute (specialty-physician). Tomsk, Siberia. Russia.
1986-89   Cardiologist. Internship and Residency in Clinical Cardiology. USSR Cardiology  Research Center.
1999-92   Ph.D. USSR Cardiology Research Center. Moscow.
1993-94   European Society of  Cardiology Training  Fellowship on  Lipidology. Hammersmith  Hospital. London, UK.
2002        Training in Lipid Metabolism.Visiting Research Fellow, University Department of  Medicine  Royal Perth Hospital, University of  Western Australia, Perth,WA. Australia.
2007     D.Sc. thesis entitled “Optimal approach in the pharmacological management of   atherogenic dyslipideamias”.Specialities “Biochemisty” and “Cardiology” Federal  State Institution “Russian Cardiology Research Complex”   
                                    
Board  of  Certification:
State Medical Examination Board, Tomsk, Siberia, Russia.
Honors MD Diploma  issued 24 June 1980, Certificate IV № 937989;
Board of  Medical Academy of Science, Moscow, Honors Diploma in Clinical Cardiology issued 03
August  1989, Certificate №  34-89;
Ph.D. Diploma. Highest Attestation  Board (VAK) and Special Research Council in       Cardiology, Cardiology Research  Center, Moscow  Certificate KD № 0744  issued 05/03/93; Certificate of  European Society of Cardiology, 1994.

Employment:   
1986-87    Physician, Cardiology Research Center, Moscow
1997-88    Military Service. Airforce Combat. Ukraine. Head of  Medical Service.
1988-89    Physician-Cardiologist, Cardiology Research Center, Moscow.
1989-92    Ph.D. Student. Cardiology Research Center, Moscow. 
1993-94    Research Fellow, MRC Lipoprotein Team, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
1995-98   Research Fellow, Cardiology Research Center, (in 1996 re-named to the Cardiology Research Complex). In 2005 re-named to Federal  State Institution “Russian Cardiology Research Complex”,  Clinical Cardiology Institute named by A.L. Myasnikov.                       
2002         Visiting Research Fellow. University Department of Medicine. Royal Perth Hospital. Perth. Western Australia.
1996-pt    Senior Research Fellow.  Department of Atherosclerosis. Federal State Institution “Russian Cardiology Research Complex”, Clinical Cardiology Institute named by A.L. Myasnikov.                       

Specialties: 
- Cardiology  (1989)
- Apheresis (1992)
- Lipidology (1994)
- Clinical Trials (1997)

Research Societies Membership:
European Atherosclerosis  Society (EAS)
1994-present  Member of  VNOK Society(Russia)  Advisory Board for Atherosclerosis, Secretary of RMSI (Russian Metabolic Research Institute).

Research  Interests:
- Kinetic studies of LDL and Lp(a) after acute elimination from plasma, drug studies.
- Randomized , placebo-controlled trials of  lipid-lowering drugs in humans.
- Treatment of familial hyperlipideamias.
- Pleotropic effects of statins
- National guidelines in cardiovascular prevention and treatment