Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, Kursk State Medical University. Doctor of the highest category. Author of more than 400 scientific publications and 2 monographs. Under his leadership, 1 doctoral and 21 PhD were defended. Member of the editorial board of the journals "Archive of Internal Medicine", "Rehabilitation and Palliative Medicine", "Man and Health". Member of the Presidium and Board of the Russian Scientific Medical Society of Physicians. He heads the work of the Kursk section of the Russian Society for Arterial Hypertension, the Russian Cardiological Society.