Oleg Rutkovsky This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. AIHA - Connections Vol. 3, No. 9- May 16-31, 1998

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   Published on: 5/6/2001   Last Visited: 11/18/2001

   On May 8, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed Oleg Rutkovsky, MD, as health minister.
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   For the last year, Rutkovsky, 50, served as chief physician at Moscow's Pirogov First Municipal Hospital, an AIHA partnership hospital paired with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Rutkovski specialized hepatology--the treatment of liver diseases--while studying at the First Moscow Medical Institute. In the late 1980s he joined the Ministry of Health as the head of the Main Department of Medical Services, and from 1992 to 1997 he worked as the chief physician of Moscow Clinical Hospital #81.
   
   Rutkovsky replaces Tatyana Dmitrieva, who had run that ministry since August 1996, and was dismissed during Yeltsin's cabinet shakeup this spring.
   
   Breast Health Workshop Held in L'viv
   
   Staff from Women's Wellness and Breast Health Centers in the NIS, US partners from Buffalo, New York and representatives from the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) will attend a three-day workshop in L'viv, Ukraine titled "A Collaborative Approach to Breast Health." The workshop, which begins May 18, will cover mammography regulations and referral criteria in Ukraine, clinical practice guidelines, self and clinical breast exams, interpretation of mammograms, treatment of breast disease and other topics. Representatives from Ukraine's Ministry of Health, the L'viv Regional Health Administration, USAID and L'viv partner hospitals will make opening remarks to the 80 participants.