Levashev, Yuri Nikolaevich

In 1962 he graduated from the Rostov Medical Institute (1962), in the direction he worked as a surgeon in the Rostov Region.

In 1968 he graduated from graduate school at the Leningrad Institute of Blood Transfusion. In 1968, under the guidance of Academician A. N. Filatov, he defended his thesis on "Comparative evaluation of diagnostic research methods in post-thrombophlebic syndrome of the lower extremities."

In 1968-1999 worked at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Pulmonology of the Ministry of Health of the USSR / RF (later - Research Institute of Pulmonology of the St. Petersburg State Medical University named after Academician I.P. Pavlov) in positions from junior research assistant to deputy director for scientific and medical work.

In 1979, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Cystic hypoplasia of the lungs (pathogenesis, diagnosis and surgical treatment)."

In 1999-2009 - Director of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia, head of the Department of Phthisiology of the St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.

The author of 20 monographs and manuals on thoracic surgery, pulmonology and phthisiology, 12 inventions in the field of medicine. Under his scientific supervision 12 doctoral and 32 master's theses were prepared and defended.

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (2004), as a result of the reform of the State Academies of Sciences since 2014, he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, the European Association of Respiratory Diseases. He chaired the Thematic Working Group “Diagnosis and Treatment of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis” as part of the WHO High Level Working Group on Tuberculosis in the Russian Federation.

One of the founders of the foundation of modern thoracic surgery .

He established the role of anaerobic infection and proposed a quantitative assessment of the severity of the clinical status of patients with destructive processes (lung gangrene, etc.), which made it possible to achieve a twofold decrease in postoperative mortality. He was the creator of the classification of lung malformations, developed reconstructive plastic surgery (circular and wedge-shaped) for tumor and cicatricial stenosis of the trachea and bronchi.

Under his leadership, for the first time in the Soviet Union, a related transplantation of a mother’s lobe to a child with disseminated process and respiratory failure, as well as lung transplantation for patients with emphysema, was performed. For the first time in the world in 1990, he performed a successful allotransplantation of the entire thoracic trachea with omentoplasty with a follow-up period of more than 10 years.

He was the initiator of the introduction of video-assisted thoracoscopic operations in phthisiosurgery.

Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2001).

• Profile of Yuri Nikolaevich Levashyov on the official website of the RAS
• Levashev Yuri Nikolaevich on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Medical Academic Journal - PetrSU (Neopr.) . old.petrsu.ru. Date of treatment January 17, 2017.
• Obituary at the site of St. Petersburg Research Institute of Physiopulmonology // spbniif.ru, 11/15/2016