Leonid Lazebnik

Leonid Borisovich Lazebnik (born 1941) is a Russian physician and professor at the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, known for his work in gastroenterology and geriatrics. He graduated from the I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University in 1965, defended his candidate dissertation in 1971 and his doctoral dissertation in 1991, and worked at his alma mater from 1970 to 1994. He held several senior public health posts: Chief Physician of the Moscow Department of Healthcare from 1993 to 2010, head of the Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics at the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education from 1994 to 2001, Chief Gerontologist of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation from 1995 to 2001, and Director of the Russian Central Scientific Research Institute of Gastroenterology from 2001 to 2012. He is president of the Gastroenterology Scientific Society of Russia, won the 1999 Moscow Government Prize and the 2000 Myasnikov Prize of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and has written books and articles about apitherapy.