Central Research Institute of Gastroenterology (TSNIIG)

1.   Department of Chronic Hepatitis and Portal Hypertension, organized in 1960 at the Institute of Therapy by the director of the Institute, Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences A. L. Myasnikov (17 people). The head of this department was then the candidate of medical Sciences A. S. Loginov.

2.   The academic group of Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences V. H. Vasilenko and the Department of Propaedeutics of the 1st MMI headed by him (18 people).

3. Surgical group transferred from the Institute of Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the USSR (8 people).

The director of the VNIIG was appointed Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences V. H. Vasilenko, his deputy for science and head of the hepatopancreatological department-A. S. Loginov, MD, Professor. 

The surgical department was headed by Professor N. O. Nikolaev (a student of Academician B. V. Petrovsky). VNNIG had 300 beds, of which: 3 departments of 60 beds had the department, and 4 departments of 30 beds belonged to the institute. In fact, the real unification never happened. The Department of Hepatology remained a "stranger" in 1 MMI.  Finally, on August 27, 1973, the Institute of Gastroenterology was separated from the Department of Propaedeutics of the 1st MMI, reassigned to the Committee (now the Department) of Health Care in Moscow, significantly expanded (up to 550 beds) and transferred to  Highway Enthusiasts, d. 86, where it is located in 2 hospital and 1 laboratory buildings of the former 58 GKB, where it is now. 

The director of the TSNIIG was appointed Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, later acad. AMN of the USSR Anatoly Sergeyevich Loginov.

Anatoly Sergeyevich Loginov was the first who widely introduced the use of laparoscopy in the clinic. Before him, these were only a few isolated cases of laparoscopy being used in the clinic, mainly by surgeons. Loginov introduced laparoscopy to the therapeutic clinic as a diagnostic method for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He began to practice laparoscopy in 1960 in the Department of Hepatology of the Research Institute of Therapy. For the first time, he proposed color photography during laparoscopy for the diagnosis of liver diseases. From 1964 to 1969, he published several monographs on laparoscopy and an atlas of laparoscopic pictures and microphotographs of liver punctures (during laparoscopy, he did a targeted liver biopsy). It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the widespread introduction of laparoscopy in the clinic, especially in the field of hepatology, where diagnostic laparoscopy with targeted liver biopsy and subsequent examination of liver punctures has made, one might say, a revolution. Loginov's work was the impetus for the widespread use of laparoscopy in surgery.

Hepatology was Loginov's favorite field of gastroenterology. Until the end of his life, he headed the Department of Hepatology at the TSNIIG on a voluntary basis.  He remained director until the end of his life — until 2000 (only 33 years).

From February 2001 to July 2012, Director of the TSNIIG-MD, Prof. Leonid  Borisovich Lazebnik.

Since September 2012, TSNIIG has been headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Prof. Khatkov Igor Evgenievich. 

Currently, the bed fund of the TSNIIG is 540 beds. Every year, about 9,500 patients receive inpatient treatment, and more than 30,000 patients receive outpatient care.

The main task of the TSNIIG is the implementation of the scientific target complex program "Improvement of methods of diagnosis and treatment of the digestive system". The TSNIIG team develops methods of "regenerative medicine", studies the possibility of using biotechnologies for the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, compiles registers of patients with digestive diseases that require constant monitoring, and develops organ-preserving technologies for the lifelong treatment of such patients, studies the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis of gastroenterological diseases, and conducts pharmacoeconomical research in the treatment of these diseases.

Endoscopic research methods have been widely used and are still being used at the Institute. At the very beginning of the 60s in Russia, for the first time, the staff of the department began using retrograde pancreatocholangiography by therapists together with surgeons for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

In 2003-2009, a multicenter study "Epidemiology of gastroesophageal disease in Russia"was conducted.

In 2008, the standards "Diagnosis and therapy of acid-dependent diseases"were developed.

Surgeons of the Institute actively cooperate with all therapeutic departments of the Institute and laboratories.

Since the end of 2012, the work of the surgical department of the Central Research Institute of Surgery has intensified, and complex high-tech operations have been performed.

In addition, the Institute is engaged in teaching activities, as since 2007 it has received the right to conduct postgraduate and additional education (license dated July 27, 2007) and the right to issue state - issued documents for academic work (accreditation No. 25 dated July 27, 2009).

Currently, 29 residents and 5 postgraduates are studying at the TSNIIG. In addition, 120-140 doctors are annually trained at the institute under the program of additional education.