Alexey G. Martov, MD, PhD, Honored Doctor of Russia, is a professor and chairman in the Department of Urology of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency; professor of urology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Medical Centre; and head of the Urology Department of the D. D. Pletnev Moscow City Hospital.
In 1988, Dr. Martov started as the head of the Endourology Department at the Institute of Urology and, by 2006, he was the institute’s vice-president. In 1993, he earned his PhD degree in “Endourological Treatment of Upper Urinary Tract Diseases.” In 2006, he was named p.t. head of Urology Department at D. D. Pletnev Moscow City Hospital and professor of urology at the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education. In 2012, he became p.t. professor and chairman of the Department of Urology of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, Russia, and in 2018 he was named professor and leading researcher at the Lomonosov Moscow State University Medical Centre.
Dr. Martov is a founding member and president of the Russian Endourology and New Urotechnology Society, vice-president of the Russian Urology Society, and an honorary member of the Russian, Georgian, and Azerbaijan Urology Association. He is co-editor of the Russian journal Urology. Dr. Martov’s specializations and interests include endourology, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), stone disease, and uro-oncology. He has written more than 400 scientific publications in PubMed-cited journals, 15 books, and 35 books chapters, and produced three educational CDs for urologists on the topics of endourology, BPH, and prostate cancer. He has also received numerous international invitations for live surgery meetings, presentations, workshops, congresses, and teaching events in Russia, countries of the former Soviet Union, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, and Sweden, among others.