Petersburg Postgraduate Medical Academy. In this capacity, he teaches emergency care providers, holds training sessions, and consults and treats drug abusers with heart disease, cardiovascular complications and infectious endocarditis. As a cardiologist, Dr. Shalnev wants to use his Humphrey Fellowship to upgrade his knowledge of computer usage in medicine, as well as expand his skills in emergency medicine, especially concerning the treatment, prevention and diagnosis of cardiovascular complications related to drug abuse. Dr. Shalnev received his MD from Vozonej State Medical Institute in 1974 and a diploma in cardiology from St Petersburg Postgraduate Medical Academy in 1980, and he received his PhD degree from State Institute of Physiology named after Pavlov in 1988 in St. Petersburg, Russia.