Dear colleagues!

The IIIrd Scientific & Practical Olympiad “Mexidol^®: 20 years in clinical practice” was successfully completed!

The Olympiad became a traditional expected event, before the third Olympiad there were the first, which took place in 2005 – 2006, and the second one, 2010-2011.

The Olympiad was held under the aegis of the Russian Scientific Medical Society of Physicians (RSMSP).

The goal of the Olympiad was to summarize the experience of clinical use and research of Mexidol^® and to identify promising directions for using Mexidol^® in various areas of medicine, new directions for experimental, fundamental preclinical research on effect of oxidative stress on main pathophysiological processes in organism.

Members of Presidium of the Expert Council were: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), President of RSMSP, Honored Scientist of the RF, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Anatoly Ivanovich Martynov; Academician of the RAS, Chairman of the All-Russian Society of Neurologists, Head of the Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, RNRMU named after N.I. Pirogov, Professor Evgeny Ivanovich Gusev; General Secretary of RSMSP, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Andrei Aleksandrovich Spassky; Corresponding Member of RAS, Director of the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Chief Therapeutist of Central Federal District, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Sergey Anatolievich Boytsov; Vice-President of RSMSP, Head of the Department of Internal Diseases & General Physiotherapy of the Department of Pediatrics of RNRMU named after N.I. Pirogov, Honored Doctor of the RF, Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Grigory Pavlovich Arutyunov. Leading neurologists and well-known specialists of other specialties were in the Expert Council: Director of Research Institute of Cerebrovascular Pathology & Stroke of RNRMU named after N.I. Pirogov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Lyudmila Vitalyevna Stakhovskaya; Chief Specialist on Medical Rehabilitation of the Ministry of Healthcare of the RF, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Galina Evgenyevna Ivanova; Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Anatoly Ivanovich Fedin; Chief Ophthalmologist of the Medical Center of Administrative Directorate of the President of the RF, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Evgeny Alekseevich Egorov and many others.

The participants of the Olympiad represented various scientific and medical institutions from different regions of our country.

The Olympiad covered the most important medical directions, such as therapy, neurology, cardiology, psychiatry, ophthalmology and many others.

On November 23, 2017, in Moscow, within the framework of the finished XIIth National Congress of Physicians, results of the Scientific & Practical Olympiad were summarized. The Expert Council identified winners in four nominations:

* Nomination “The Best Scientific Research on the Preparation Mexidol^®”

Place	Author	City
1	Godunova Alfia Robertovna	Naberezhnye Chelny
2	Plotnikov Denis Markovich	Tomsk
2	Malishevskaya Tatyana Nikolaevna	Tyumen
3	Bolotova Elena Valentinovna	Krasnodar
3	Sergeeva Elena Nikolaevna	Tver

* Nomination “The Best Scientific or Scientific & Practical Work of Young Scientists, Dedicated to Research and Administration of the Preparation of Mexidol^®”

Place	Author	City
1	Ilyina Anastasiya Semenovna	Nizhniy Novgorod
2	Kulai Nikita Sergeevich	Saint Petersburg
2	Korotysh Maria Anatolievna	Pavlovo
3	Glazkova Olga Vladimirovna	Novosibirsk
3	Sinitsyna Ksenia Vladimirovna	Ivanovo

Also, the Expert Council marked scientific research of Abramova Valeriya Nikolaevna, Tver.

* Nomination “The Best Scientific & Practical Work, Summarizing Clinical Experience of Administration of the Preparation of Mexidol^®”

Place	Author	City
1	Knny Kristina Sergeevna	Kazan
2	Duma Svetlana Nikolaevna	Novosibirsk
2	Dyakonova Elena Nikolaevna	Ivanovo
3	Martemyanova Elena Grigoryevna	Yekaterinburg
3	Yastrebtsova Irina Petrovna	Ivanovo

The Expert Council marked scientific works of Mikaelyan Marina Filippovna, Pyatigorsk, and Chepukhina Larisa Alexandrovna, Tolyatti.

* Nomination “The Best Experimental, Fundamental Preclinical Research”

Place	Author	City
1	Stepanova Eleonora Fedorovna	Pyatigorsk
2	Zamoshchina Tatyana Alexandrovna	Tomsk
2	Kapitsa Inga Gennadievna	Moscow
3	Radko Stepan Vladimirovich	Saint Petersburg
3	Polozova Ella Yurevna	Saransk

The Expert Council marked scientific research of Kurilov Igor Nikolaevich, Chelyabinsk.

Awards and diplomas of awardees and winners of the Olympiad were presented by General Secretary of RSMSP, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Andrei Aleksandrovich Spassky; Vice-President of RSMSP, Head of the Department of Internal Diseases & General Physiotherapy of the Department of Pediatrics of RNRMU named after N.I. Pirogov, Honored Doctor of the RF, Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Grigory Pavlovich Arutyunov and Special Representative of RSMSP in Siberian & Far Eastern Federal Districts, Academician of RAS, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Voevoda Mikhail Ivanovich.

Within the framework of the Symposium, reports were made by: Andrei Aleksandrovich Spassky, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor – “Olympiad” Mexidol^® – 20 years in clinical practice: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”, Shchulkin Alexey Vladimirovich, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Winner of the IInd Olympiad 2010-2011 – Mexidol^®: Pharmacological & Clinical Effects, Implementation in Clinical Practice”, Fedin Anatoly Ivanovich, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor – “The Role of Ischemia & Hypoxia in Development of Neurological Diseases”. Winners of the IIIrd Scientific & Practical Olympiad presented reports on results of their work.

The works will be published in leading medical periodicals.