Grigory V. Volchenkov
Chief Doctor
Vladimir Oblast TB Dispensary
Biography
Grigory Vasilievich Volchenkov, MD, is specialist in TB control and TB infection control. He was born in 1962 in Murom, Russia. He graduated Ivanovo State Medical Institute, Russia, in 1985. In 1999-2002 he was working for Oblast Department of Health as a chief internal medicine specialist of Vladimir oblast. Since 2002 until now he is head of Vladimir Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary and director of oblast TB control program.
In 2002-2003 he implemented intensive TB infection control program supported by CDC and WHO. Dramatic reduction of occupational TB among health care workers has been documented not only in Vladimir TB Dispensary, but in all other TB facilities of the region. Dr. Volchenkov lectured and coordinated several postgraduate courses on TB infection control in frame of IUATLD world conferences in 2006-2011. Dr. Volchenkov was invited by WHO, FILHA, KNCV, PIH to lecture on TB infection Control in St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Moscow, Tomsk (Russia), Tartu (Estonia), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) and Dushanbe (Tajikistan).
In cooperation and with support of CDC, WHO and CTRI Dr. Volchenkov organized Center of Excellence for TB Infection Control in Vladimir, which holds quarterly TB IC courses for TB doctors, nurses, administrators, laboratory managers, engineers from Russia and other former Soviet Union states. As a temporary WHO adviser Dr. Volchenkov took part in technical assistance TB IC missions to Myanmar (2009), Nepal (2009, 2010, 2011), Azerbaijan (2009), Ukraine (2010, 2011), Turkmenistan (2010), Belarus (2011), etc.
He was invited by Harvard School of Public Health and CDC to lecture on Vladimir Experience of TB Infection Control Program Implementation on summer 2008-2013 courses in Boston, MA.