Professor Evgeny Shlyakhto, Director General of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Academician of the Russian Academy of Science, President of the Russian Society of Cardiology, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology.
Professor Shlyakhto was born on June 29, 1954 in Pogar, the Bryansk region. He graduated from the Pavlov Medical University in Saint Petersburg in 1977 and became Doctor of Science in Medicine in 1992, Professor in 1994, Honored Russian Scientist in 2004, and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Evgeny Shlyakhto has been the Director General of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre since 2001 and the President of the Russian Society of Cardiology since 2011. In 2010, he became a member of the WHO Expert Working Group.
The Centre led by Prof. Shlyakhto carries out intensive research in the fields of translational medicine, molecular diagnostics, development of diagnostic tools for personalized treatment, cellular and tissue engineering for therapeutic purposes, creation of biocompatible materials and tissue-engineered constructs designed to create breakthrough medical technologies of fundamental importance for providing high-tech care to patients with cardiovascular, endocrine and blood diseases.
The results of research work by Prof. Shlyakhto have been summarized in more than 800 publications, 16 inventions, 2 scientific discoveries, and a number of monographs. Prof. Shlyakhto was a supervisor in 57 PhD and 20 DSc students..
Professor Shlyakhto is a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Science, the Presidential Council for Science and Education, the Regional Health Council under the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly, the Expert Health Council of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy of the Russian Federal Assembly, Vice President of the National Medical Chamber.
Evgeny Shlyakhto is the Editor-in-Chief of the following medical journals: Russian Journal of Cardiology, Translational Medicine, and Journal of Arrhythmology. He also is a member of the international editorial board of the European Heart Journal.
Professor Shlyakhto plays an active role in such international committees as the ESC Congress Programme Committee (since 2012) and of the ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (since 2015).
Evgeny Shlyakhto received the Russian Federation Government Prize in science and technology in 2009 and won the Pavlov Award, the prize for scientific and technological achievement in Physiology and Medicine from the Saint Petersburg Government and St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2011. He received an Order of Honour in 2012 and 4th class Order of Merit for the Motherland in 2017.

Since May 2017 Irina Panarina has been appointed to the position of General Manager of AstraZeneca, Russia and Eurasia. Irina is responsible for AstraZeneca business in Russia & Eurasia Area and she leads AstraZeneca Russia.
Irina Panarina has worked for AstraZeneca since 2009. In October 2015 Irina joined the Russian team as Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Business Unit Head. Before coming to Russia, Irina Panarina held the position of General Manager at AstraZeneca Ukraine.
Prior to joining AstraZeneca Irina held regional roles at GSK Pharma headquarters in London, UK.
Irina Panarina has work experience in marketing, product portfolio management, people development.
Irina Panarina has degrees from Newcastle University & South Bank University. She also holds MBA degree from INSEAD Business School.

· Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of RAS, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation.
· Director General of the National Medical Research Radiological Centre (NMRRC) of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Director of the P.A. Herzen Moscow Cancer Research Institute, a branch of NMRRC.
· He is one of the leading specialists in the Russian Federation in the field of diagnosis and treatment of oncological diseases. Throughout the scientific and therapeutic activity, Andrey Kaprin conducts a purposeful development of modern methods of surgical and combined treatment of kidney, bladder, prostate and other localizations.
· Since 2014, Andrey Kaprin is heaing the first Russian scientific medical cluster in the field of oncology - the Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Medical Research Radiological Centre" of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, which was established on the basis of three leading medical centers - P. Herzen, A.Tsyb MRRC, and N. Lopatkin Research Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology.
· At present, being the head of the NMRRC of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, being an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in oncoradiology, he supervises the development of nuclear medicine, radiology and radiotherapy in our country. He has taken charge of most complex and promising areas in the industry: the technical re-equipment of the radiation therapy departments of the regions, the creation of a program and a center for the development of contact methods of irradiation, the introduction and expansion of the first national medical proton center in the country, the introduction of modern methods of training specialists in radiology and radiotherapy, iIncluding telecommunication training and master classes in the regions, many of which are conducted by himself.
· Every year Andrey Kaprin performs over 300 complex surgical interventions for various oncological diseases.
· He has trained more than 300 doctors, including residents and graduate students. Under his leadership, 27 dissertations for the degree of candidate of medical sciences and 9 doctoral dissertations were prepared and successfully defended. The result of many years of hard work was the publication of more than 700 printed scientific works.

D. M. Sc., Professor.
Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “N.N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Since 2012 he is the Director of the Research Institute of Oncology.
Belyaev Aleksey Mikhaylovich is the main freelance oncologist of the Northwestern Federal District, Head of the Department of Oncology of the Mechnikov North-West State Medical University, Chairman of Oncologists Association of the Northwestern Federal District, Doctor of Medical Science, Professor.
Education:
1986 – graduated with honors and gold medal the “S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy.”
1992 – postgraduate studies in a military college (graduate work) at the “S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy”.
Research and practice activity:
1993 – passed the Ph.D. defense “Morphofunctional characteristics of soft tissues around of the gunshot wound (ballistic trauma)”
2004 – passed thesis for the doctor’s degree “Cytoreductive surgeries and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in the complex treatment of common forms of abdominal cancer”.
Since 1998 he has been developing problems of care for patients with advanced forms of peritoneal cancer. Belyaev Aleksey Mikhaylovich is one of the first in Russia, who began to perform cytoreductive surgeries with chemohyperpyretic perfusions of abdominal cavity. He is awarded the Diploma of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Plaque “Excellent Worker of Public Health”, he has the Medal “For Merit to Domestic Health Care”.
Belyaev Aleksey Michaylovich is the author more than 200 research papers and one monograph. 10 Ph.D. defenses and 3 theses for a doctor degree were passed under his leadership.

DOLGOV DMITRII ALEKSEEVICH – master of public health, oncologist
Education:
• Military-medical academy named after S.M. Kirov, MD;
• Northwestern State Medical University named after I.I. Mesnikov, residentship «Health Organization and Public Health»;
• Saint Petersburg State Paediatric Medical University, master’s degree in «Public health», master’s thesis: «Optimization of the medical documentation of a treatment and prevention institution»;
• First Saint Petersburg State Medical University named after I.P. Pavlov, redidentship «Oncology»;
• Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation: professional retraining «Specialist in the field of state and municipal administration», «Digital transformation and digital economy: technologies and competences»;
• Moscow School of Management «Skolkovo», Executive MBA.

Academic title, degree: master’s degree
Proficiency in foreign languages: English
Functional position: Head of the coordination center for implementation of activities of the federal project of cancer control in Saint-Petersburg, physician-methodist of the department for the support of the activities of the Committee on Health, Saint-Petersburg state institution «Medical information and analysis center»

Kit Oleg Ivanovich, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
In 1993 Kit Oleg Ivanovich graduated from the Medical Institute of the Order of Friendship of Peoples. Then he completed an internship at the Oktyabrskaya Central District Hospital from 1993 to 1994, after which he was employed as a surgeon at the same institution until 1995.
From 1995 to 1997 he completed a residency at the Rostov Research Institute of Oncology. From 1997 to 2010 he advanced from surgeon to deputy director for research at the Federal State University «Rostov Research Institute of Oncology» of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russian Federation, since 2010 he has served there as a director. In 2017, he assumed the role of the General Director of the National Research Centre for Oncology of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation.
19 doctoral and 23 candidate dissertations have been successfully defended under the scientific supervision of Kit Oleg Ivanovich. Additionally, Kit Oleg Ivanovich has contributed to over 1,500 scientific publications, including 236 patents for inventions, 18 monographs, and 14 educational materials.
Awards: honorary title "Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation"; honorary title "Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation"; medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd degree; Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology; Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia; badge "Excellent Healthcare Worker"; medal "For Merit to Domestic Healthcare".

Igor Khatkov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, director of the Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Centre, Chief Non-Staff Specialist Oncologist, Moscow City Healthcare Department, Head of Department at the General Medicine Faculty of A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry.
Igor Khatkov is one of the pioneers of laparoscopic surgery in oncology. He was the first in Russia to perform pancreatoduodenal resection on a pancreatic head cancer patient.
His achievements are widely recognized throughout Russian and international community.
Igor Khatkov is the president of the Russian Pancreatology Club, a board member of the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association of Commonwealth of Independent States, board member of the Russian Endoscopic Society, member and expert of the International Hepato-Pancreato Biliary Association (IНPBА), member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), member of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES).
He has been awarded with the Alexander Vishnevsky Medal for his achievements in medical science, with a commemorative medal of the A.V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery, with the Russian Health Minister Certificate of Honour, State Duma Certificate of Honour, Government of Moscow Certificate of Honour, and the Moscow Healthcare Department Certificate of Honour.

Akhmerov Timur Maratovich - CEO, JSC "BARS Group"
Date of birth: 16.01.1975
Provides strategic management of a company included in the list of systemically important enterprises in the industry. Speaker of specialized events on innovative technologies, digital transformation - SPIEF, EEF, BRICS, “Russia - Islamic World: KazanForum”.

Achievements
Under the leadership of Timur Akhmerov, the regional IT company has grown to the level of a leading russian expert and developer of digital solutions for the state, business and people with offices in 18 regions of the Russian Federation and a team of more than 2,500 people.
The company implements large-scale projects to digitalize key sectors of the economy, ensures the technological sovereignty of Russia and is in demand in the markets of the CIS countries.


Education
Izhevsk State Technical University, Department of Computer-Aided Design Systems.
Specialty: Systems Engineer.


Experience
Since July 2000 - CEO, BARS Group
From 1992 to 2000 - developer, software architect.

State awards
Gratitude of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan (2006, 2010)
Commemorative medal "For contribution to the development of the Novosibirsk region" (2012)
State award of the Republic of Tatarstan - medal “For Valiant Labor” (2015)
Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Republic of Tatarstan" (2022)
Gratitude from the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation A.G. Siluanov “For fruitful cooperation and contribution to solving problems” (2022).

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.

MD, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences