Editor-in-chief

• Olesya B. Starzhinskaya, Cand. Sci. (Med.), Acting Rector, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov–on-Don, Russia. starzhinskaya_ob@rostgmu.ru, ORCID SPIN: 7081-9002

Deputy Chief Editor

• Mikhail A. Shishov, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Medical Law, Acting Vice–Rector for Scientific Work, Rostov State Medical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Shishov_nauka@rostgmu.ru , ORCID
• Yulia L. Naboka, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor, The Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. ORCID SPIN: 4507-2152 Scopus

Editorial board

• Yurii M. Ambalov - Dr. Sci. (Med.), professor, Rostov State Medical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). E-mail: skibairo@mail.ru

• Irina I. Andreeva - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Associated Prof., The Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. ORCID
  e-mail: iai3012@rambler.ru 
  
  
• Dmitriy G. Beltsevich, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Surgical Department No. 1, National Medical Research Center of Endocrinology, Moscow, Russia. ORCID SPIN: 4475-6327
• e-mail: beltsevich@rambler.ru
  
  
• Denis Vinnikov - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Research Laboratory of Health and Environment, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University: Almaty, KZ. ORCID ResearcherID Scopus
  e-mail: Denis.Vinnikov@kaznu.kz
  
  
• Natalya I. Volkova, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., The Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. ORCID SPIN: 3146-8337 ResearcherID Scopus
  
  
• Yuri Yu. Gorbljansky - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Occupational Pathology and Pulmonology, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN: 9593-1596
  e-mail: gorblyansky.profpatolog@yandex.ru
  
  
• Elena N. Grineva - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint- Petersburg, Russia. ORCID SPIN: 2703-0841
  e-mail: grineva_e@mail.ru
  
  
• Vitalii S.Groshilin – Dr. Sci. (Med.), professor, Head of the Department of Surgical Diseases No. 2, Head of the RostGMU Surgical Clinic Center, Rostov State Medical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). ResearcherID: C-7077-2018 Scopus Author ID: 57046045700 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9927-8798 e-mail: groshilin@yandex.ru

• Elena A. Dzhenkova - Dr. Sci. (Bio.), Associated Prof., National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN: 6206-6222
  e-mail: super.gormon@yandex.ru
  
  
• Natalya V. Drobotya - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Cardiology, Rheumatology and Functional Diagnostics, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. ORCID SPIN: 9942-6624 ResearcherID
  e-mail: drobotya@yandex.ru
  
  
• Pavel B. Zotov - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Director of the Institute of Clinical Medicine, Tyumen State Medical University; Head of the Siberian School of Preventive Suicidology and Deviantology, Tyumen, Russia. SPIN: 5702-4899 Scopus Researcher ID: U-2807-2017; ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1826-486X
  e-mail: note72@yandex.ru
  
  
• Vladimir Kartashev - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Associated Prof., Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. ORCID
  e-mail: vkrt@yandex.ru
  
  
• Evgeniy F. Kira - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof.  (Moscow, Russia). ORCID SPIN: 8955-9775 Scopus
  e-mail: profkira33@gmail.com
  
  
• Mikhail I. Kogan - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Urology and reproductive health with the course of pediatric urology, andrology of training faculty, director of the Institute of Urology and Nephrology, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN: 6300-3241 ORCID ResearcherID Scopus
  e-mail: dept_kogan@mail.ru
  

• Vyacheslav L. Korobka, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor, Head of the Department of Reconstructive, Cardiovascular, Thoracic, Maxillofacial Surgery and Transplantology Rostov State Medical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3205-4647, korobka_vl@rostgmu.ru.

• Lyudmila P. Kuzmina - Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Prof., Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation, Deputy director for scientific work, Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health, Moscow, Russia. ORCID SPIN: 2381-5819 Scopus
  e-mail: lpkuzmina@mail.ru
  
  
• Tatyana V. Latysheva - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., National Research Center- Institute of Immunology Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, Russia. SPIN: 8929-7644   Scopus ORCID
  e-mail: tvlat@mail.ru, tv.latysheva@nrcii.ru
  
  
• Alexander A. Lebedenko - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Children's Diseases No. 2, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN: 5493-6114   Scopus
  e-mail: leb.rost@rambler.ru
  
  
• Fedor V. Logvin, Cand. Sci. (Med.), Associate professor, Head of the Department of Epidemiology, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4410-1677; atlz3@mail.ru
  
  
• Vsevolod B. Matveev, Corresponding Member of RAS, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Member of the European Urological Association, Member of the Association of Academic Urologists of Europe (AAEU), President of the Russian Society of Oncourologists, Head of the Urology Department and Deputy Director for Innovative Work at the N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Moscow, Russia. Scopus
  e-mail: vsevolodmatveev@mail.ru
  
  
• Alla Y Mindlina, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia. ORCID 
  e-mail: mindlina@list.ru
  
  
• Alexander Pampura - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Associated Prof., Head of the Department of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Research Institute of Pediatrics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia. ORCID
• e-mail: apampura1@mail.ru
  
  
• Yuri A. Petrov, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology No. 2, Rostov State Medical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia); https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2348-8809;e-mail: mr.doktorpetrov@mail.ru
• Nina A. Petunina, Corresponding Member of RAS, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia. ORCID SPIN: 9784-3616 ResearcherID Scopus
  e-mail: petunina_n_a@staff.sechenov.ru
  
  
• Lyudmila  V. Prokopenko – Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., deputy  Director for  Research Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. SPIN: 5892-5927 ORCID Scopus
  e-mail: kancelyar@niimt.ru, prokopenko@irioh.ru
  
  
• Natalia Yu. Pshenichnaya - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Work of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Central Research Institute of Epidemiology" of Rospotrebnadzor; Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Faculty of Advanced Medical Training of the State Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Moscow Region of the Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute named after M.F. Vladimirsky, Moscow, Russia. SPIN: 5633-7265 ORCID ResearcherID Scopus
  e-mail: natalia-pshenichnaya@yandex.ru
  
  
• Sergey A. Rumyantsev - Corresponding Member of RAS, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU), Moscow, Russia. SPIN: 1433-2016 ORCID ResearcherID Scopus
  e-mail: s_roumiantsev@mail.ru
  
  
• Aleksandr N. Rymashevskiy - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology №1, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN: 9758-0725   Scopus 
  e-mail: rymashevskyan@mail.ru
  
  
• Yuri P. Sivolap - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Pathology, Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia. SPIN: 3586-5225 Scopus
  e-mail: yura-sivolap@yandex.ru
  
  
• Ludmila P. Sizyakina - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN:1125-0350 ORCID Scopus 
  e-mail: msiziakina@mail.ru
  
  
• Victor A. Soldatkin - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN: 8608-9020   ScopusID: Scopus
  e-mail: sva-rostov@mail.ru
  
  
• Sergey N. Tereshenko - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Russian Cardiology Research and Production Complex, Moscow, Russian Federation. SPIN: 9556-2575 Scopus
  e-mail: stereschenko@yandex.ru
• Sergey S. Todorov, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia ORCID
  e-mail: setodorov@yandex.ru
  
  
• Ekaterina A. Troshina - Corresponding Member of RAS, Dr. Sci. (Med.),  Professor, Federal State Budgetary Institution National Medical Research Center of Endocrinology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Institute of Clinical Endocrinology, Deputy Director of the National Medical Research Center – Director, Moscow, Russia. SPIN: 8821-8990 ORCID Scopus
  e-mail: troshina@inbox.ru
  
  
• Larisa A. Khaisheva, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), Associate Professor, Rostov State Medical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). SPIN-код: 7160-3740 (РИНЦ) (Scopus)

• Yuriy V. Shatokhin - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of the Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion with the rate of clinical laboratory diagnostics, course of clinical and laboratory genetics, hematology department head, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. SPIN: 1437-6354 ORCID Scopus
  e-mail: shatokhin-yv@yandex.ru
  
  
• Nikolay V. Shestopalov - Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Research Institute of Disinfectology, Moscow, Russia. SPIN: 4078-1408 ORCID ResearcherID Scopus
  e-mail: shestopalov.nv@gmail.com
  
  
• G. Pfister - Prof., Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Director, Cologne, Germany. Scopus