Anatoly Viktorovich Skalny (born May 12, 1962) is a Russian physician and biomedical scientist in the field of trace elements, founder of the Bioelementology scientific school. Ph.D., Prof., head of the Medical Elementology Department of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Vice President of the Trace Element Institute for UNESCO, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Dietetics of the First Moscow State Medical University, director of the Institute of Bioelementology of the Orenburg State University, founder of the Center for Biotic Medicine and сhairman of the Russian Society of Trace Elements in Medicine (RUSTEM).

Bioelementology — a field of knowledge, scientific and practical direction that studies the chemical (bioelement) composition of the human body under normal conditions, as well as in the event of various diseases.