Aleksandr G. Rumyantsev is a Doctor of Medical Science, professor, Chief Pediatric Hematologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Chief Pediatrician of the Moscow Department of Health, director of Federal Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitry Rogachev, board member of the Russian Society of Pediatricians, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Pr. Rumyantsev was born in 1947 in Moscow. In 1971 he graduated with honors from the Pediatric Faculty of the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute Named after N.I. Pirogov. In the following years, at the same institute Pr. Rumyantsev worked his way up from a clinical resident at the Department of Internal Pediatrics to professor, the Head of the Department of Outpatient Pediatrics which he created in 1987. Pr. Rumyantsev is a talented teacher, author and co-author of training courses on childhood diseases, outpatient pediatrics, pediatric hematology, oncology, transfusion.
He is an editor of several basic textbooks and guidelines on pediatrics. Pr. Rumyantsev has received multiple awards from the N.I. Pirogov Sate Medical Institute (in 1978, 1983, 1994 and 2007). In 1987 Pr. Rumyantsev received a Certificate of Merit from the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education of the USSR.
As a researcher, Pr. Rumyantsev is known for his work in pediatric hematology and immunology, medical ecology, intensive and outpatient pediatrics, adolescent medicine, clinical blood physiology and pathophysiology, regulation of hematopoiesis and immune response, pathogenesis and treatment of hereditary blood diseases in children, intensive polychemotherapy and leukemia immunotherapy. Pr. Rumyantsev is an author of more than 650 publications including 45 monographs and guidelines.
Pr. Rumyantsev’s most important research work was clinical, hematological, molecular and genetic study of ecological catastrophes in Kirishy (Russia) and Chernovtsy (Ukraine). Pr. Rumyantsev participated in damage control and recovery after the Chernobyl disaster. He created “Chernobyl’s Children” research program. He supervised basic research on mechanisms of action of incorporated radionuclides in children after the Chernobyl disaster.
Pr. Rumyantsev participated in development of the first Russian molecular arrays for leukemia diagnostics, creation of an umbilical cord blood bank which allows to extract progenitor blood cells for unrelated transplantations. Pr. Rumyantsev supervised the first in Russia transplantations of cord stem cells to children with primary immunodeficiencies, hematological and oncological diseases.
In recent years, Pr. Rumyantsev and his staff actively develop new methods of hematopoietic stem cell, progenitor bone marrow cells, peripheral and cord blood transplantation for treatment of genetic, hematological and oncological diseases in children and adolescents.
In 1979 Pr. Rumyantsev received an award from the Moscow Komsomol for his research in hematology and immunology. In 1994 he was awarded the Order of Peoples’ Friendship for his scientific and educational work. In 1989 he received a Certificate of Participation and a silver medal at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy for development of diagnostics and immunotherapy of blood diseases in children.
Pr. Rumyantsev received the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Award (1978), the Medal of Honor of the University of Montpellier (France, 1990). In 2002 he was awarded the highest medical prize in Russia – the “True Calling” award. In 2002 he also received the Certificate of Merit from the State Duma and the Moscow City Duma, in 2004 the medal “For Merit to the Fatherland Healthcare”, in 2007 the “Excellence in Healthcare” chest badge. In 2008 and 2011 Pr. Rumyantsev accepted the Moscow Government Award for Healthcare.
Since 1995 Pr. Rumyantsev is a member of the Biomedicine Department of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1996 he became a member of the American Association of Clinical Research Professionals. In 2012 he was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (now a Russian Academy of Sciences).
Pr. Rumyantsev is the chief editor at “Hematology/Oncology and Immunopathology in Pediatrics” Journal, a member of editorial boards of Pediatrics, Russian Pediatric Journal, Clinical Practice in Pediatrics, Pediatric Pharmacotherapy, Questions of Diet Therapy in Pediatrics, Russian Bulletin of Perinatology and Pediatrics, School of Health, Hematology and Transfusiology, Transfusiology, Russian Journal of Immunology.
In 1991 Pr. Rumyantsev founded the Institute of Pediatric Hematology which became the Federal Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitry Rogachev. To this day Pr. Rumyantsev remains its director.
