The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (russian: Акаде́мия медици́нских нау́к СССР) was the highest scientific and medical organization founded in the Soviet Union founded in 1944. Its successor is the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences founded in 1992, and is a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2013.

Presidents of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

* from 1944 to 1946 – Nikolay Burdenko * from 1946 to 1953 –

Nikolay Anichkov Nikolay Nikolayevich Anichkov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Ани́чков, often spelled ''Anitschkow'' in German literature) (1885, Saint Petersburg – 1964) was a prominent pathologist of Russian heritage. Anichkov first ...

* from 1953 to 1960 –

Aleksandr Bakulev Aleksandr Nikolayevich Bakulev (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ба́кулев) ( - March 31, 1967) was a Soviet surgeon, one of the founders of cardiovascular surgery in the USSR. Born in Nevenikovskaya (now in the Kirov ...

* from 1960 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1987 – Nikolay Blokhin * from 1968 to 1977 – Vladimir Timakov * from 1987 to 2006 –

Valentin Pokrovsky Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky (russian: Валентин Иванович Покровский; 1 April 1929 – 29 October 2020) was a Russian medical scientist, epidemiologist and infectionist. Career President of the Russian Academy of Medica ...

* from 2006 to 2011 – Mikhail Davydov * from 2011 to 2013 – :ru:Дедов, Иван Иванович

Past and current members

Alexander Gavrilenko Alexander Vasilievich Gavrilenko (russian: Александр Васильевич Гавриленко; born 15 February 1950) is a Russian cardiac surgeon. He has been a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences since 2004 ...

(2004) * Anatoly Pokrovsky * Andrei Snezhnevsky

References

Russian National Academies National academies of sciences Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Medical and health organizations based in Russia Scientific organizations established in 1944 Organizations based in the Soviet Union Science and technology in the Soviet Union Health in the Soviet Union 1944 establishments in the Soviet Union {{USSR-stub