On behalf of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, I would like to welcome the participants in the 19th edition of the Zdravookhraneniye International Exhibition.

Your exhibition is an important and significant event among medical trade fairs. It is especially satisfactory that during Expocentre’s anniversary year it shows how to withstand the crisis and helps the exhibitors to focus on the prospects of the development after the recession.

The most important part of the exhibition is its full-fledged programme of accompanying events that reflects the implementation of the Zdorovye (health) National Project and includes meetings of the largest associations and international conferences.

The exhibition and its accompanying events offer an integrated approach to evaluation of quality of medical care, an increase of professional qualifications of doctors, and improvement of economic efficiency of health care institutions throughout the country.

We wish the organizers and participants in the conferences and symposia, and the visitors and exhibitors of Zdravookhraneniye’2009 every success in realization of scientific programmes and introduction of the latest scientific and practical developments to the medical practice.

We wish you every success and many new ideas!

Prof. Mikhail Davydov
President of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
and the Russian Academy of medical Sciences