Vorobyov, Andrey Ivanovich

He was born in a family of Bolshevik revolutionaries with prior revolutionary experience: doctor Ivan Ivanovich Vorobyov (executed on December 20, 1936) and biologist Maria (Mira) Samuilovna Kizilstein (sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1937). ^[3]

• From 1943 to 1944 he worked as a painter, electrician ^[4] .
• From 1947 to 1953 he studied at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute .
• At the institute he married Inna Pavlovna Kolomoitseva, in 1953, son Ivan (now a professor, biologist) was born, in 1958 - son Pavel (now a professor, a doctor).
• From 1953 to 1956 he worked as a doctor in the Volokolamsk regional hospital, where he was involved in therapy, obstetrics, pathological anatomy, and pediatrics. There, his wife worked as a neurologist.
• In 1956 he entered the clinical residency of Professor Joseph Abramovich Kassirsky in the Department of Hematology of the Central Institute for Advanced Medical Studies.
• Since 1961, he was a participant in the biological workshop of I. M. Gelfand ^[5] .
• In 1966, A. I. Vorobyov was appointed head of the clinical department of the Institute of Biophysics of the USSR Ministry of Health.
• In 1971 he became head of the Department of Hematology and Intensive Care at the Central Institute for Advanced Medical Studies. Dismissed in 2018 .
• In 1986, he was the initiator of the creation and a member of the government medical commission for the Chernobyl accident.
• In 1987 - was elected an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.
• In 1987, he was appointed director of the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, which was later transformed into the Hematology Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences . He worked in this post until 2011.
• In 1990-1991 - People's Deputy of the USSR.
• From 1991 to 1992 - Minister of Health of the RSFSR - of the Russian Federation ^{[6] [7]} , then was briefly and. about. Minister ^[8] .
• In 2000, he was elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Biological Sciences.

He opposed the recognition of the leading role of Stalin in the victory in the Great Patriotic War , stating that Stalin himself was largely the cause of the 1941 disaster, in which he began to play a fatal role long before it erupted ^[9] .

In 2019, after a high- profile case by Ivan Golunov, he turned to the President of the Russian Federation with a proposal to review all sentences under articles on drugs: “Who else could have been illegally arrested, innocently convicted, received incomparable punishment for these articles? The case of Ivan Golunov again raised the question of repressive drug policy in the Russian Federation. The answer should be a radical reform of the criminal prosecution system for drug-related crimes ” ^[10] . In support of the appeal of Andrei Vorobyov, dozens of scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences made ^[11] .

• The Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the III degree (October 13, 1998) - for merits to the state in the development of national health care and science ^[12] .
• Order of Lenin (1986) - for his services in eliminating the medical consequences of the Chernobyl accident
• Anniversary medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1995)
• Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (July 19, 2004) - for his merits in scientific activity ^[13] .
• USSR State Prize (1978)
• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (October 31, 2008) - for merits in the development of healthcare, medical science and many years of conscientious work ^[14]
• Certificate of honor of the Government of the Russian Federation (October 30, 2003) - for a great personal contribution to the development of national health care, many years of fruitful scientific work and in connection with the 75th birthday ^[15] .
• Medal "For Merit to Domestic Health Care" (2001)
• Hurry to do good medal (December 7, 2012) - for an active citizenship on protecting the human right to life ^[16]
• The Golden Perftoran Honorary Badge (November 1, 2003) - for his outstanding contribution to the development of transfusiology and in connection with the 75th anniversary of his birth .
• Prize of the Moscow City Scientific Society of Therapists named after Dmitry Dmitrievich Pletnev for outstanding achievements in the development of the domestic therapeutic school for 2007

A.I. Vorobyov is the author of about 400 scientific works, including monographs, textbooks and study guides. The most important scientific papers:

• Cardialgia (3 editions 1973-1998)
• " Acute massive blood loss " ( 2001 )
• “ Guide to Hematology ” (3 editions 1979-2005)

Under his leadership, 57 theses were defended, including 15 doctoral ones.

• Ministers of health. Essays on the history of healthcare in Russia in the twentieth century. M., 1999.

• Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov // Biography on a personal site
• Profile of Andrey Ivanovich Vorobyov on the official website of the RAS
• Articles, speeches by A. I. Vorobyov
• Biography on peoples.ru
• Academician Vorobyov Andrei Ivanovich is 80 years old!
• Website about Academician A. I. Vorobyov , created by his students and colleagues
• Academician Andrei Vorobyov (inaccessible link) in the journal "RF Today"
• “Today’s Ministry of Health is an ugly institution,” the website of the Moscow Medical Academy, citing Moscow news of March 23, 2007
• A.I. Vorobyov. The voice of blood. Interview. Part 1 - railway station “Itogi”, No. 41 (852)
• A.I. Vorobyov. The voice of blood. Interview. Part 2 - railway station “Itogi”, No. 42 (853)
• The memory page of I. Vorobyov on the site of victims of repression photographs from the case and the family album of A.I. Vorobyov, a story about the arrest and execution of his father

Video lectures

• Acute massive blood loss
• Sepsis, more precisely - blood poisoning
• Failed diagnosis
• Appeal to Russian therapists
• From S.P. Botkin - to our days: problems of modern intensive care

Videos

• Dr. Vorobiev 2 episode
• Dr. Vorobiev Series 4 Re-reading Autobiography
• Academician Andrei Vorobyov about the “case of doctors” in 1953