Background
Bockeria, Leo Antonovich was born on December 22, 1939 in Ochamchira, Abkhasia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Anton Ivanovich and Olga Ivanovna Bockeria.
Bockeria, Leo Antonovich was born on December 22, 1939 in Ochamchira, Abkhasia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Anton Ivanovich and Olga Ivanovna Bockeria.
Student, 1st Moscow Medical Institute, 1959-1965; postgraduate, 1st Moscow Medical Institute, 1965-1968; Candidate of Medical Sciences, 1st Moscow Medical Institute, 1968; Division of Medical Sciences, 1st Moscow Medical Institute, 1973.
Senior science worker, Bakoulev Institute for Cardiac Surgery, Moscow, 1968-1974; chief laboratory for hyperbaric oxygenation, Bakoulev Institute for Cardiac Surgery, Moscow, 1973-1977; professor of Surgical, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 1978; deputy director, Bakoulev Institute for Cardiac Surgery, Moscow, 1977-1993; head, chairman, Bakoulev Institute for Cardiac Surgery, Moscow, 1993-1994; director, Bakoulev Institute for Cardiac Surgery, Moscow, since 1993; head, chairman, Bakoulev Center for Cardiovasc. Surgery, since 1994; academician, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 1994; chief cardiac surgeon, Ministry of Public Health, since 1996; head, department chairman cardiovascular surgery Sechenov, Moscow Medical Academy, since 1996. Director Center Surgical and Interventional Arrhythmology Ministry of Public Health.
Member of American College of Surgeons (honorary), Public Palace Russia (committee head since 2006), All Russian Public League of Nation Health (president since 2003), All-Russian Foundation Assisting Sick Children with Congenital Heart Diseases since 1994, European Association Cardiothoracic Surgery (council 2001-2004), American Association Thoracic Surgery, Russian Society Cardiovasc. Surgeons (president since 1995).
Married Olga Alexandrovna Soldatova October 10, 1964. Children: Olga Leonidovna, Ekaterina Leonidovna.