The famous Russian scientist in the field of molecular medicine, academician Mikhail Paltsev, has been the rector of the country's most famous higher medical educational institution, the Moscow Medical Academy named after I. Sechenov. However, in 2009, in June, according to the order of the Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova, he was removed from this post. As the media wrote about this, his resignation was due to the opposition of the rector of MMA to the reform of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, as a result of which the Academy would lose a number of clinics under its subordination. By the way, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Paltsev at that time was also vice-president of RAMS. According to another version, the minister’s decision was related to a personal conflict between her and the rector. The resignation order was signed on July 19, 2009, and on July 23, Mikhail Alexandrovich Paltsev demanded public explanations from Golikova, since she had no good reason for such a move. He even sued the ministry, because he did not see any guilt. Another version appeared in the press - the rector was “inconvenient” and “insubordinate”, as were several other heads of higher education institutions, who were also dismissed during 2009. He did not succeed in reinstating himself as rector, but since 2015, he has been appointed the Chief Scientific Secretary of the RAS.
Academician Mikhail Paltsev: biography
The future scientist was born in November 1949 in the capital of the USSR, Moscow. His father, Alexander Gerasimovich Paltsev, was a construction engineer. From the very first days of World War II, he was called up to the front, and after its end he returned to his activities and began reconstruction of the destroyed cities. For more than 20 years, Alexander Gerasimovich headed the Giprotorf Design Institute. Mom Mikhail Alexandrovich was called Valentina Mikhailovna. She was a housewife, was engaged in raising her son.
Education
Misha studied well at school to the delight of his parents. He was a very responsive and kind boy, whom all teachers loved. In 1966, he graduated with honors from a Moscow high school. Since childhood, listening to his father’s stories about friends who were killed or wounded at the front, he dreamed of becoming a doctor and saving lives, so after receiving a certificate of maturity, without thinking twice, he applied to the 1st Moscow Medical Institute. I.M.Sechenova. After passing the exams, his surname was also on the list of applicants to the medical faculty. From this began his medical biography. Mikhail Paltsev did not miss a single lesson, he decided to devote himself entirely to medicine. When the time came to choose a specialization, he, to the surprise of many, especially parents, chose pathological anatomy.
Scientific activity
After graduating from the institute, Mikhail A. Paltsev entered graduate school. After defending his Ph.D. thesis in 1975, he received the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences and remained working in his native institute - first as an assistant, and then as a senior teacher and associate professor. The scientist Finger Mikhail did not want to stop there and soon took up his doctoral dissertation. After her defense in 1985, he received the position and title of professor at the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the First MMI. Since 1990, he was appointed head of this department.
Paltsev Mikhail Alexandrovich: family
With his future wife, Irina, graduate student Paltsev met at the medical institute. She was a freshman, and he was an assistant teacher. An affair began between them. When the girl was in the 4th year, they played a wedding, and a year later their daughter Catherine was born. Today, doctor Irina Stepanovna heads the center for plastic surgery, and the daughter, who followed in the footsteps of her father, is a leading specialist in the field of molecular medicine, defended her doctoral dissertation and received a doctorate in medical sciences. At the moment, she works as the head of the immunohistochemical department at the Academician B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center for Surgery, which is part of the RAMS structure.
Position of Rector of MMI
In 1987, at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute for the first time in its long history on an alternative basis, the world-famous scientist Mikhail A. Paltsev was elected rector. After 3 years, the institute receives a new status, as a result of which it is renamed the Moscow Medical Academy. Sechenov. Mikhail Alexandrovich remains its leader. After that, he is re-elected to this post for another 4 terms. During his leadership, he made an invaluable and significant contribution to the development of, of course, Russia's oldest and largest higher medical educational institution, which made it possible to maintain a leading position among the leading medical universities in the country.
Activities
His professional and creative biography is considered together with organizational work at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Finger Mikhail Alexandrovich - a revolutionary in science, as well as a visionary. So, at the dawn of the new millennium, he realized that for practical health care personnel with innovative training would soon be needed. To this end, he began to work on the opening of new faculties (since 1990, at the initiative of Mikhail Alexandrovich, 9 new faculties were opened), in which the training of scientific and pedagogical personnel, dentists trained to work with the latest technology, and military doctors will be conducted. Finger also contributed to the development of higher nursing education. He also created the most advanced post-graduate education system in Russia for obtaining narrow specialties. In this direction, the Academy has 75 departments. Thus, graduates of medical institutes have the opportunity, in addition to classical medical ones, to receive the following professions if they wish: pharmacist, hygienist, epidemiologist; health manager and continuing education teacher.
Conversions
Moscow Medical Academy I. Sechenov, under the leadership of Paltsev, actively participated in various transformative and innovative programs not only at the university, but also in the medical education system throughout the country. They also develop educational and methodological programs for training specialists, prepared a list of the necessary literature for teaching, and also conduct an examination of all materials to ensure distance education. All this activity was under the direct control of the rector. There were 19 clinics in the structure of the academy, where practical training of highly qualified specialists was carried out day after day.
Research activity
As the rector of MMA, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Paltsev fully contributed to the development of research activities in the field of medicine. Biomedical science has become a priority. Despite the crisis of the 90s in science in general, and in medicine, in particular, the academy managed to maintain personnel scientific potential, almost none of the valuable employees was reduced. During the activity of the rector Paltsev, 6 research institutes began to work in the structure of MMA: pharmacy, phthisiopulmonology, public health and public health, molecular medicine, breast surgery, medical parasitology.
Social work
Two Orthodox churches were located on the territory of the academy - the Archangel Michael and Dmitry Prilutsky. At the initiative of Mr. Paltsev, these churches were restored and handed over to believers. This is not a simple repair. The Church of the Archangel Michael was in very poor condition, it had to be restored from the ruins. M.A. Paltsev was awarded the Moscow Patriarchate with the Orders of the Holy Blessed Prince D. of Moscow (2nd degree) and St. S. Radonezh (2nd degree).
Educational activities
In the life of Mikhail Paltsev, the scientific and pedagogical work that he leads at the Department of Pathology takes an important place. In 1990, in parallel with rectorial activity, he was elected head of this department. Over the years of work in this position, he updated the curriculum in this discipline three times. The latest version is fully compliant with international requirements. Under his leadership, a new textbook on pathological anatomy and a guide to practical exercises on a biopsy sectional course, pathology, etc. were created. In 2000, the textbook “General Pathological Anatomy” was published, which received a prize from the President of the Russian Federation.
Molecular medicine
In 2002, the Finger-led group began work on the development of drugs for the treatment of infectious and oncological diseases as part of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation program in the field of “Molecular Medicine”. In the course of work, using new advances in molecular biology, modern methods for the morphological diagnosis of diseases were developed.
Post rectorial activity
After a scandal erupted in 2009 between the rector of MMA named after Sechenov and the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova, countless investigations and trials, Mikhail Paltsev was forced to leave his rector's post. His team collected signatures against the dismissal of the permanent rector, who held this position as a result of the vote. But he was not able to recover his posts, or he himself had no desire. Nevertheless, his merit to Russian science was very great, and he remained the vice-president of RAMS until 2011. Where, after that, did Mikhail Paltsev work? The Kurchatov Institute was the next step in his professional biography. Here he worked as deputy director for medical and biological research until 2014. A year after leaving the institute, he received another serious appointment. Since 2015, by order of the President of the Russian Federation, he has been the chief scientific secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mikhail Alexandrovich is a public person, always ready to communicate with the press. Reception days are organized for everyone who wants to meet with him once a month. You can come, chat and make up an opinion about what kind of person Mikhail Aleksandrovich Paltsev is. His contacts can be clarified in the reception of the executive secretary of the Academy.