2017 Winner

Dr Leonid Roshal is a distinguished paediatrician from Moscow, an expert for the World Health Organisation and the Chairman of an International charity fund to help children in disaster and wars. Dr Roshal has been leading the emergency surgery and children’s trauma department of Moscow’s Paediatric Scientific Research Institute since 1981. In 2003 he took over Moscow’s institute of children’s emergency surgery which is currently treating sixty thousand children a year.