{{Short description|Russian neurologist and politician}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Veronika Skvortsova | image = Вероника Скворцова, 2014.jpeg | office = [[Ministry of Health (Russia)|Minister of Health]] | term_start = 21 May 2012 | term_end = 21 January 2020 | predecessor = [[Tatyana Golikova]] | successor = [[Mikhail Murashko]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|11|1|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = | death_place = | education = | alma_mater = [[Russian National Research Medical University]] | profession = [[Neurology|Neurologist]] <br /> [[Doctor of Sciences]] in medicine| | native_name = {{nobold|Вероника Скворцова}} | native_name_lang = ru | caption = Skvortsova in 2014 }}
'''Veroníka Ígorevna Skvortsóva''' ({{langx|ru|Верони́ка И́горевна Скворцо́ва}}; born November 1, 1960, in [[Moscow]]) is a Russian [[neurologist]] and [[politician]]. She served as the [[Ministry of Health (Russia)|Minister of Health of the Russian Federation]] from 21 May 2012 to 15 January 2020.
==Biography== [[File:Vladimir Putin and Veronika Skvortsova 21 January 2013.jpg|thumb|right|Skvortsova meeting with President [[Vladimir Putin]] on 21 January 2013]] Born into a family of doctors, a physician in fifth generation,<ref>[http://www.rg.ru/2008/08/08/doktor.html "Как доктор доктору"], [[Rossiskaya Gazeta]]</ref> She graduated from school with a gold medal in 1977. In 1983, she graduated from training at the pediatric department of the Second Moscow Medical Institute (today called [[Russian National Research Medical University]]). In 1988, she graduated from the same department and received her PhD. From 1988 to 1997 she worked as [[Medical Laboratory Assistant]] and [[associate professor]]. In 1999, she became one of the founders of the National Association for the Fight Against Stroke. Since 2005, she was director of the Research Institute for Stroke in the Russian National Research Medical University. In July 2008, she was appointed Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. On May 21, 2012, she was appointed to the role of [[Ministry of Health (Russia)|Minister of Health of the Russian Federation]] in [[Dmitry Medvedev's First Cabinet|Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet]]. At the Seventieth World Health Assembly on May 11, 2017, she was elected 70th President of the [[World Health Organization]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170525154038/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2017/wha70/president/en/ Recently elected president's inaugural address to the Seventieth World Health Assembly]</ref> and only [[Ukraine]] protested her nomination.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2017/wha70/president/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525154038/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2017/wha70/president/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 25, 2017|title=WHO | Dr Veronika SkvortsovaMinister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation}}</ref> She has emphasized the importance of [[healthy lifestyle]]s and [[noncommunicable diseases]].
On 15 January 2020, she resigned as part of the cabinet, after [[President of Russia|President]] [[Vladimir Putin]] delivered the [[Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly]], in which he proposed several amendments to the constitution.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dmitry-medvedev-resign-russia-prime-minister-putin-quit-latest-a9284741.html |title=Russian PM resigns in shock move as Putin announces dramatic constitutional shake-up |last=Carroll |first=Oliver |date=January 15, 2020 |website=The Independent |language=en |access-date=January 17, 2020}}</ref> She was appointed as the Director of the [[Federal Medical-Biological Agency (Russia)|Federal Medical-Biological Agency]] on 22 January.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
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