As part of this event 13 November, on the initiative of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences M.I. Voevoda, with the participation of leading employees of the FRC FTM, a session was held “Problems of adaptation and human health in the North and the contribution of Academician L.E. Panin to northern medicine”
The session participants heard speeches from Academician V.M. Voevoda about current problems of northern Arctic medicine in the 21st century, Scientific Secretary of the Research Institute of Biochemistry T.V. Goltsova. on the contribution of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences L.E. Panin to the study of human adaptation to the conditions of the North and to northern medicine, Director of NIIEKM Ph.D., Professor Selyatitskaya V.G.. about the peculiarities of hormonal regulation of metabolic processes as a risk factor for pathology in workers during shift dynamics in the Far North, Head of the Research Institute of Therapy and Preventive Medicine Corresponding Member. RAS, Doctor of Medical Sciences Ragino Yu.I.. about the features of cardiometabolic health in women of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, MD, Professor Kolpakov A.R.. about the mechanisms of human adaptation to cold, PhD. Rozumenko A.A. about the peculiarities of energy metabolism in humans in the Far North and Antarctica, MD. Kim L.B. about the characteristics of human aging in the Arctic, MD. Nikolaeva Yu.A. on the characteristics of mortality from cardiovascular pathology in the Arctic zone of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
The interest of the listeners was aroused by the fact, that almost all the speakers were repeated participants in expeditions to the Far North or Antarctica.
During the lively discussion of the presented reports and in the final speech of Academician M.I. Voevoda, a point of view was unanimously expressed about the enormous factual material, received from the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Biochemistry and other institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, who were most actively involved from the 1970s to the early 2000s in the problem of human adaptation to the environmental conditions of Siberia and the Far North. During this period, the foundation was laid for the further development of northern medicine, the demand for which is due to the highest morbidity among the population, accelerated human aging in the regions of Siberia and the Far North and underestimation of the achievements of Siberian scientists in this area.
Video recording of the event