Evgeniy Nikolayevich Meshalkin (1916—1997) was a professor, the Doctor of Medical Sciences, a heart surgeon, the academician of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, the founder of Novosibirsk Research Institute of circulation pathology. He founded the Siberian research group of heart surgery.
He wrote and published more than 800 scientific papers, including 12 monographs, 47 patents and certificates of authorship on different issues of surgery and circulation pathology. To honor the memory of the outstanding scientist the Novosibirsk Research Institute of circulation pathology was named after academician him (Academician E. N. Meshalkin Novosibirsk Scientific Research Institute of circulation pathology). Additionally, there exists the Meshalkin Scholarship for graduate students and doctoral students of Novosibirsk region.