Sergei Pavlovich Mironov (1948–2023)

Abstract

On August 14, at the 76th year of life, after a short illness, Sergei Pavlovich Mironov, an outstanding scientist, an excellent organizer, a great clinician, an erudite teacher, a remarkable public figure, doctor of medical sciences, professor, and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, passed away suddenly. Domestic healthcare suffered an irreparable loss.

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For 50 years, Sergei Pavlovich Mironov’s activities were inextricably linked to the N.N. Priorov Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (CITO). While still a student at the First Moscow Medical Institute, Mironov began working as a hospital attendant and then as a nurse at the CITO. Following his graduation from the institute in 1973, he was assigned to the Department of Pediatric Traumatology in CITO, and in 1979, he defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Surgical treatment of post-traumatic contractures and ankylosis of the elbow joint in children.” In 1983, he was elected by competition as the Head of Department of Sports and Ballet Trauma and continued his doctoral dissertation “Post-traumatic deformities and contractures of large joints in children and adolescents and their treatment,” which he successfully defended in 1984.

Mironov’s scientific activities were associated with the development and implementation of minimally invasive arthroscopic methods for the treatment of joint injuries and diseases and microsurgeries in traumatology, orthopedics, and spinal trauma.

From 1995 to 2011, Mironov was the Deputy Head of the Department of Presidential Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Head of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Furthermore, from 1998 to 2019, he was the Director of CITO, clearly demonstrating his talent as an organizer. Since 2019, Mironov was the President Emeritus of CITO.

For 25 years, Mironov held the position of chief freelance specialist and traumatologist-orthopedist at the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, where he worked extensively for the development of traumatology and orthopedic services throughout the Russian Federation.

Mironov headed the traumatology and orthopedics departments at Lomonosov Moscow State University for a long time and then at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, where he trained traumatologists and orthopedists not only for the Russian Federation but also for CIS countries.

Since 1999, Mironov was the Editor-in-Chief of the N.N. Priorov Journal of Traumatology and Orthopedics as well as a member of the editorial boards of numerous Russian and international journals.

His social activities were inextricably linked with the creation of the professional public organization Russian Arthroscopic Society in 1996 and the All-Russian public organization Association of Traumatologists and Orthopedists of Russia in 2014, where he was the president for a long time.

Sergei Pavlovich Mironov will be best remembered by his family, friends, associates, and colleagues in Russia and other countries not only as a specialist in traumatology and orthopedics but also as a spiritual and moral person.

The N.N. Priorov Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics team, Ministry of Health of the Russian Foundation

The editors of the journal and the staff of the H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Children’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation extends its condolences