Yury Lopatin is Professor of Cardiology, Head of the Cardiology Department at the Volgograd State Medical Yury Lopatin is Professor of Cardiology, Head of the Cardiology Department at the Volgograd State Medical University and Head of No. 1 Department at the Volgograd Regional Cardiology Center, Russian Federation. He trained at the Avicenna Medical University of Dushanbe, 1st Pavlov Medical University of San-Petersburg, USSR, and Cardiology Research Centre, Moscow, Russia.

Professor Lopatin is Past-President of the Russian Society of Heart Failure. He is Fellow of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC. He is currently a member of the Clinical Section of the ESC HFA Board (2016-2018) and a member of the Board of the Russian Society of Cardiology. He is a member of the editorial boards of several Russian journals.

Clinical cardiology; Non-invasive cardiology; Heart failure; Coronary artery disease; Pharmacology of anti-ischemic agents; Medical education.