Clinical Hospital «NEUROVITA»

The clinical basis of the Hospital used to be located in the facilities of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Blokhin NN National Medical Center of Oncology (NMCO), 23, Kashirskoye shosse, Moscow for over 20 years. Currently, the Hospital moved to a newly repaired specialized medical building with an address at Ul. Marshala Timoshenko 7, building 1, Moscow.

A new facility of the Hospital is adjusted to the needs of tetraplegics and paraplegics and is suited for specific highly technological medical assistance to various types of the patients in the severe conditions. The Hospital offers well-equipped private and semi-private wards for patients. The rooms are air-conditioned, equipped with refrigerators and TV sets, medical gases supply as well as all with all appropriate devices for paraplegics and tetraplegics.

The Hospital has Intensive Care Units that are equipped for the therapy of the patients in grave conditions: artificial lung ventilation apparatuses, anesthetic apparatuses, infusion pumps and others. The Hospital is equipped with radiologic imaging equipment, neurophysiological testing equipment, such as EEG mapping, electroneuromyography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, as well as equipment for functional diagnostics, endoscopy, transfusiology, microneurosurgery, harvest of the mononuclear cells of the peripheral blood, laboratories, physiotherapy and a specialized gym.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital, Professor Andrey S. Bryukhovetskiy, PhD, MD, the Doctor of Medical Sciences (according to the Russian ranking system), the neurologist of the top category, has been the head of the NeuroVita Clinic since the day of its foundation. The professor has been developing personalized therapy with the involvement of the technologies of regenerative and post-genomic medicine since 1996.

Being a Head Neurologist of the Russian Navy and the colonel of the Medical Military Service, Andrey Bryukhovetskiy led the programs of the Ministry of Defense on the treatment of the combat injury of the brain, was a member of the Expert Board of the Ministry of Health and Social Development on the cell technologies from 1998 till 2003, the coordinator of the branch program of the Russian Academy of Medical Science New Cell Technologies to Medicine  and currently is a vice president of the International Association of Neurorestoratology that united the leading experts in the stem cells. Andrey S. Bryukhovetskiy is an author of 210 publications in peer reviewed journals,15monographs, 22 patents for inventions of the Russian Federation and one USA patent. 

George L. Mentkevich, PhD, MD, the Doctor of Medical Sciences (according to the Russian ranking system), the oncologist and hematologist of the top category is the Chief Medical Officer of the Hospital and our leading expert in oncology for the past two years. Prof. Mentkevich took training courses in the leading US cancer centers and acquired a unique 30 years’ experience in the bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cells transplantation. George Mentkevich started his career in Blokhin NN NMCO as a clinical oncologist and hematologist and became the deputy chief officer of the Research Institute of Children Oncology and Hematology there. He is the author of over 200 articles and 5 monographs. 

The Hospital has a stable and closely connected team of the best specialists, the consultants, the doctors and the nurses, as well as management and administration. The Hospital regularly cooperates with five professors and doctors of medical sciences, five MDs, consults with ten professors and doctors of medical and biological sciences of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok. The Hospital has been multiply awarded with the diplomas of the Moscow Fund of the Protection of Consumers’ Rights. Back in 2010 the journal Paraplegia News considered the technologies of the Hospital to be the most promising to increase the efficacy of rehabilitation in spinal cord injury.

Our regular consultants are Prof. Nina A.Gorbunova, the doctor of medical sciences  (Moscow) for oncology and chemotherapy, Prof. Viktor I. Seledtsov, the doctor of medical sciences (Moscow)  for immunology, Prof. Elena R. Chernykh, the doctor of medical sciences (Novosibirsk) and Anna A. Borunova, MD (Moscow) for oncoimmunology; Prof. Valeriy E. Shevchenko, the doctor of biological sciences (Moscow) for oncoproteomics; Sergey S. Bogachov, the doctor of biological sciences (Novosibirsk) for genetics; Nikolay Yu. Mironov, MD for cardiology, Prof. Vladimir V. Tsurko, the doctor of medical sciences, for therapy and rheumatology, and many other specialists.

The Hospital is licensed for out-patient and in-patient medical care in neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, allergology and immunology, intensive care and anesthesiology, transfusiology, endoscopy, surgery, therapy, gastroenterology, radiology, laboratory diagnostics, physical training, massage, rehabilitation and nursing care.

The Hospital is licensed for the pharmaceutical practice including

• circulation of medicines,
• use of highly active and psychotropic agents
• use of narcotic agents.
• the hospital pharmacy is also licensed.

The Hospital is approved for organization of the clinical trials of medicinal agents and of biomedical cell products.