Khasanov Rustem Shamilyevich (1956)

• 1979 graduated in Kazan State Medical Institute, therapeutic faculty.
• Majors: surgery, oncology, public health and healthcare. From 1985 and during 30 years worked as a Chief Doctor of Republican Clinical Oncology Dispensary of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan. Length of general experience composed 35 years.
• Since 2003 is Head of the Department of Oncology and Surgery of Kazan State Medical Academy.
• Pedagogical experience composed 13 years.
• Director of the Volga branch of Russian Oncology Scientific Center named after N.N. Blokhin of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation since 2005.
• Public work: Chairman of the Board of Association of Oncology Establishments of the Volga region since 2002.
• Chief free-lance specialist-oncologist of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation in Volga Federal District since 2003.
• Chief free-lance specialist-oncologist of the Ministry of Healthcare of  Republic of Tatarstan.
• Doctor of Medicine (2001).
• Dissertation on “Malignant neoplasms and improving the management of oncological services in a large industrial-agricultural region” (2001).
• Scientific title of a Professor (2005).
• Has the following governmental awards and honorary titles
• Laureate of the State Award of the Russian Federation in science and technology (2008)
• Laureate of the State Award of Republic of Tatarstan in science and technology (2003)
• Laureate of the Award “Vocation” in nomination “For creation of a new direction in medicine”, established by the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation and the First TV Channel.
• Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation (2002) and Republic of Tatarstan(1996).

The main spheres of practical activity:

- Improving organization of oncological aid to population.

- Improving organization of medication treatment of tumors.

- Organization of molecular-biological research in the system of clarifying diagnostics of neoplasms.

- Improving international interaction in the sphere of oncology.

The main sphere of the current scientific-practical activity is improving organization of secondary prevention (early revealing) of neoplasms at regional level.