Dmitri Bartenev

Dmitri Bartenev has been working with MDAC since 2004, is MDAC Senior Legal Monitor in St. Petersburg, Russia and is hosted by the NGO Citizens Watch. Dmitri graduated from Petrozavodsk State University as a lawyer in 1999. He has received post-graduate training in medical law, mental disability law and bioethics at Michigan State University (USA), Central European University (Hungary), and the Council of Europe. Dmitri is also a qualified medical doctor.

Before he became attorney-at-law in 2000 Dmitri’s professional experience included working as a legal advisor for a state hospital and an insurance company. Dmitri Bartenev is also an adjunct professor at St. Petersburg State University where he teaches international law and human rights. He has also taught comparative constitutional law and medical law.