Eugene Ivanovich Chazov is Director of the Moscow Cardiological Center since 1976, one of the largest centers in the world. As a former Director of the Fourth Department of the Ministry of Health of the Soviet Union, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, he is the recipient of numerous awards and decorations, Soviet, Russian and foreign. As a co-founder of IPPNW he gave the acceptance speech in Oslo on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace prize in 1985 together with Bernhard Lown.