Professor Alexey Nikolaevich Kuchmin (on the 60th anniversary of his birth)

On July 27, 2023, Alexey Nikolaevich Kuchmin, the Head of the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases of the Military Medical Academy, named after S. M. Kirov doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, and former chief therapist of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, turned 60 years old. A. N. Kuchmin was born on July 27, 1963, in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Territory. After graduation, he entered the Faculty of training doctors for the Navy of the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov, where he graduated with honors in 1986. For 4 years, he served as the Head of the medical center and the infirmary of the Baltic Fleet Naval Aviation. Since 1990, his life and fate have been inextricably linked with the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, within the walls of which he has passed through a difficult but bright career path from a 3rd-year cadet to an associate Professor, from a teacher to a Professor and Head of the Department. Here, A. N. Kuchmin joined the scientific, pedagogical, and clinical ideas of Professor N. N. Savitsky. Having started his scientific activity under the guidance of Professor Yu. S. Malov, Alexey Nikolaevich devoted himself to the research of the most pressing issues of cardiology, pulmonology, and physiology. After graduating from the adjunct program in 1993 at the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases of the Academy, A. N. Kuchmin defended his PhD thesis on “The role of salivary glands in maintaining homeostasis in patients with hypertension”. Since that time, he has been a senior resident, then a teacher, associate Professor, and deputy Head of the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases (for clinical work) since 2005. In 2003, Alexey Nikolaevich defended his doctoral dissertation on cardiac arrhythmias in patients with bronchial asthma. His research interests now include issues in rapidly developing areas, such as endocrinology, ultrasound diagnostics, and functional diagnostics. During his work as the Chief therapist of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, A. N. Kuchmin proved himself to be a competent Head of the therapeutic service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, particularly during the armed conflict in Abkhazia and Georgia. A. N. Kuchmin’s talent as a clinician and organizer of clinical and expert work was also manifested in his leadership from November 2008 to 2010 in the Department of Therapy of the State Institute of Advanced Training of Doctors of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and since 2015 in his native Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases of the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov. In all his positions, Alexey Nikolaevich was and remains a highly professional specialist in his field with several clinical interests and knowledge.