Leo Bokeria

Leo Bokeria Antonovich - a leading heart surgeon of Russia. Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Member of the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Chief heart surgeon of Ministry of Health and so on.
Education
In 1965 he graduated from MMI. Beginning from 1968 he has been working at the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. That year he defended his Candidate’s thesis.
In 1973 he defended his Doctoral thesis on "Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Cardiac Surgery." He got the rank of Professor.
Professional career
L.A. Bokeria actively and successfully used an experimental method. A number of operations and techniques were tested in the experiments, and then were successfully implemented in the clinic.
L.A. Bokeria is actively using computer techniques in the diagnosis, modeling of disease of the circulatory system, gas exchange, arrhythmias. L.A. Bokeria’s personal experience in operations on the open heart in tachyarrhythmias is unique (about 2000 cases).