Birthdate

25/02/1952

Organization

Scientific and Practical Centre for Foodstuffs of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Position

Chief of Nutrition Department, Full Doctor of Medical Sciences

Research specialization

Research area

Public Health

Research specialization

Pediatry, Nutrition

Career

2011 – till present - Chief of Nutrition Department, The Scientific and Practical Center for Foods of the National Academy of Science of the Republic of Belarus
2007-2011 – holder of pension
2002-2007 – Director of Republican Research Centre for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology
1990 -2002 – Vice-Rector of Gomel State Medical University, Chief of Pediatrician Department
1981-1990 – assistant Professor of the Pediatric Department Grodno State Medical University
1978-1981 - Fellowship at the Department of Pediatrics of Grodno State Medical Institute
1974-1978 – pediatrician, City Children's Polyclinic Molodechno
1968-1974 - student of Grodno State Medical Institute

Scientific activities

Projects

(specified projects of previous years, as the last 5 years I holder of pension and have not worked)
2003-2007 - Execute Director of the Program on minimization of consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophy, funded by Parliament of Union State Russian and Belarus
2003-2007 – Director (Belarus side) of Belarus-American Project “Thyroid Cancer and other thyroid diseases at Belarus population after the Chernobyl Catastrophe”, funded by The Department of the Energy (USA) and the National Cancer Institute (USA)
2005-2007 – Director (Belarus side) of Project “Evaluation of Economic consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophy” funded by World Health Organization.
2001-2002 - Individual research project “Child Abuse and Neglect in Belarus: Myth or Reality?” funded by John and Catherine Mc. Arthur Fund (USA)

Other Information:
1988 – Kyrgyzstan, worked as Head of the medical team to reduce infant mortality in the region;
1997 -USA, worked in the program of the International Council for Research and Exchanges Board (IREX);
2001 - United Kingdom, Visiting Professor of the Royal Medical Society;
1995-2007 Italy , Malta , USA , Sweden , Sardinia , India , Switzerland , Austria , France , Japan - participation in international conferences, working groups of experts of the World Health Organization , the International Atomic Energy Agency , the National Institutes of Health , performing as a key speaker.
Depth knowledge of public administration; well-known expert in the field of medicine (pediatrics, health problems after the Chernobyl accident) within the Newly Independent States (Russia , Ukraine , Belarus ); training and lectures on various topics of medicine; writing and guide social welfare projects; analysis and evaluation of projects; organize and conduct trainings with staff and with the public; experience in public health programmes (good knowledge of mother and child health care services, nutrition); experience in policy dialogue between governments and donors; experience in programme management in the area of mother and child health, nutrition, diseases surveillance and health information systems; knowledge of programme evaluation in developing countries and EU/WHO procedures.

Publications

136 publications , 15 methodic-teaching manuals

Other Information:
Key publications
E.K. Kapitonova (2012) Nutrition as a factor of effective prevention of diseases at children of early age. Journal “Food industry: science and technologies”, 1(15), 3-7.
E.K. Kapitonova (2012) Use of potato power: the second birth. Journal “Food industry: science and technologies”, 2 (15), 7-14.
Cardis E., How G., Ron E., Kapitonava E. (2006) Cancer consequences of the Chernobyl accident: 20 years later. Journal “Radiology Protection”, 5, 24-27.
E.K.Kapitonava, E.Y. Sosnovskaya. The organisation of medical aid to the population of Belarus, the victim owing to accident on the Chernobyl atomic power station (2006). J. Medical News, 11, 13-16.

Patents

1999 “Way of modelling combine defeats of kidneys and a lean gut”, Belarus national patent

Contact data

The Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Kozlova st., 29, 220024
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