(ZNDA: Moscow) On 28 February 2006 the elections for the President of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) took place in Moscow, Russia. The new appointed President is an Assyrian, an academician Dr. Mikhail Davydov. Dr. Davydov is a prominent cancer surgeon and a leader in the Russian Medical Sciences.
Mikhail Davydov was born on 11 October 1947 in the city of Konotop in Ukraine's Sumskiy region. His parents, Ivan Davydov and Asmar Davydova, were the children of the Assyrian refugees from the region of Gyavar in Iran.
After finishing high school and serving in the Soviet Army, Dr. Davydov attended the Moscow Medical Institute and graduated in 1975. Since then his work and scientific career have greatly contributed to the Cancer Research Center, the largest in Russia and in Europe.
In 2000 he became the head of this Center which includes four scientific research institutes, dozens of departments and laboratories. Nine academicians, 87 professors, 218 doctors, 800 research officers and more than 3000 medical employees work under his supervision.
Dr. Davydov’s students, who work not only in Russia but all over the world, call their mentor the “Paganini of Surgery”. “Mikhail Davydov’s intelligence and compassion are on the tips of his fingers. He is a born surgeon!” says another prominent surgeon Dr. O. Lutsevich.
Despite being extremely busy, Mikhail Davydov still operates extensively and conducts over 400 complex unique surgeries every year.
Courtesy of the Zinda magazine….