Alexander N. Konovalov

Alexander N. Konovalov is a Russian neuroscientist who has been the director of the Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute for thirty-two years.

[1] Konovalov graduated from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I. M. Setchenov Upon graduation he entered training in the N. Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery of RAMS of the USSR.

In 1974 he was elected as a Corresponding Member and in 1982 he became an Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.

Since 1994 he has been heading the Chair of pediatric neurosurgery at the Academy of Postgraduate Education.

In 1999 he received Medal of Honor by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.