Life, scientific and organizational milestones

• 1982 – graduated the Chisinau State Medical Institute with a degree in "General Medicine" with honors
• 1982-1984 – completed clinical residency at the All-Union Research Institute of Pulmonology in "Surgery-Pulmonology" and "Thoracic Surgery"
• 1986 – entered postgraduate studies at the All-Union Research Institute of Pulmonology
• 1988 – defended his Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) dissertation: "Clinical and morphological characteristics of bronchiectasis in Siewert-Kartagener syndrome and features of their treatment" ahead of schedule
• 1989 – worked as a junior, senior, leading researcher, head of the department of intensive pulmonology and thoracic surgery at the All-Union Research Institute of Pulmonology
• 1990 – was one of the organizers of the city Center for harvesting, preservation and tissue typing of donor organs. The results of organizational, methodological and scientific work in the field of transplantology were: the world's first successful simultaneous transplantation of the thoracic trachea in 1991, and the creation of the Saint-Petersburg State University program "Lung Transplantation"
• 1994 – organized and headed the Saint-Petersburg Center for Intensive Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery on the basis of City Multidisciplinary Hospital №2
• 1996 – became deputy chief physician of the City Multidisciplinary Hospital №2 and founded the Saint-Petersburg Scientific and Practical Center for Intensive Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery
• 1999 – defended his Doctor of Medical Sciences dissertation: "Transplantation of the isolated lung (experimental and clinical study)", which became the first scientific work in Russia in this field and a prologue to its practical implementation
• 2006 – under the leadership and with his direct participation the hospital successfully performed the first bilateral sequential lung transplantation in Russia, for which in February 2007 the Ministry of Health and Social Development awarded a diploma for winning the 2006 All-Russian competition "Best Doctor of the Year" in the nomination "Best Surgeon"
• 2001 – headed the newly created Saint-Petersburg State University Hospital Surgery Department
• 2005 - became Saint-Petersburg Health Committee’s Chief thoracic surgeon
• 2006 – organized and headed the Saint-Petersburg State University High Medical Technologies Institute
• 2009 – became the Dean of the Saint-Petersburg State University Medical Faculty
• 2009 – after being appointed Director of the Saint-Petersburg State Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonolgy focused primarily on intensifying the fight against tuberculosis in the Russian Federation
• 2010 - became Russian Federation Ministry of Health’s Chief thoracic surgeon
• 2021 – was elected Saint-Petersburg Honorary Citizen. The award is the highest honorary title of the city, awarded to citizens who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of Saint-Petersburg
• 2024 – was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland, 1st Class"

Research Activity

The priority research direction is the application of thoracic surgery methods in the pulmonary tuberculosis and other localizations treatment. For the first time in the world, hybrid operations were performed on patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis and dissecting aneurysms of the thoracic and abdominal aorta, and on patients with a combination of tuberculosis and lung cancer using artificial circulation. A world priority is the studied and scientifically substantiated effectiveness of robot-assisted surgery technology in the tuberculosis patients’ treatment; personal experience exceeds 500 operations. Noting the international authority of Professor Yablonsky, it should be mentioned that in 2010, at the proposal of the WHO European Office, he headed an international group of experts from 10 countries, the result of which was the adoption of the WHO Consensus on the role of thoracic surgery in improving the effectiveness of treatment of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in 2014.

The scope of scientific interests of Professor Yablonsky is not limited to thoracic surgery. He is also actively developing a fundamental direction of scientific research. Under his leadership and with his direct participation, experimental research is being conducted to find new anti-tuberculosis agents, develop candidate vaccines, cellular products and nanostructured materials for the treatment and rehabilitation of tuberculosis patients, and preclinical evaluation of their effectiveness has been carried out. The created museum of Tuberculosis cultures allows studying the influence of genetic mutations of mycobacteria virulent properties changes and the mechanisms of drug resistance formation. The study of lung parenchyma destruction molecular processes using advanced computer technologies of spatiotemporal modeling has made it possible to determine prognostic factors for the development of tuberculous inflammation and identify the mechanisms underlying its progression and reduction. The results of these developments have been published in leading world publications and are protected by invention patents.

Professor Yablonsky scientific work results:

• fundamental bases of various options for respiratory organ transplantation were investigated, implemented in the world's first successful simultaneous allotransplantation of the trachea and the first successful bilateral lung transplantation in the Russian Federation;
• the Saint-Petersburg University Program "Lung Transplantation" was developed;
• the Russian School of Interventional Pulmonology and the Saint-Petersburg School of Chest Organs endovideosurgery were created;
• the concept of using robot-assisted operations in the treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis was developed and implemented for the first time in world practice.

Professor Yablonsky’s sphere of scientific interests includes modern aspects of cardiothoracic surgery, pulmonology and phthisiology, and the problem of lung transplantation. In 1990 he was one of the organizers of the city Center for harvesting, preservation and tissue typing of donor organs, and for the first time in Saint-Petersburg, he introduced the method of multi-organ procurement from donors with confirmed brain death.

The fundamental mechanisms of lung protection from ischemia, the features of performing isolated lung, both lungs, heart-lung complex, trachea transplantation operations were studied. In 1999, he defended his Doctor of Medical Sciences dissertation: "Transplantation of the isolated lung (experimental and clinical study)" - the first in Russia. In 1991, the world's first successful simultaneous transplantation of the thoracic trachea was performed, and in 2006, the first successful simultaneous transplantation of both lungs in the practice of Russian healthcare.

Scientific and Public Activity

Professor Yablonsky carries out extensive scientific and public work. He is the chairman of dissertation councils for the degree of Candidate of Sciences and Doctor of Sciences:

D 208.092.01 on the basis of the Saint-Petersburg State Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonolgy in specialties 14.01.16 "Phthisiology" and 14.01.17 "Surgery" (medical sciences)

Under the guidance of Petr Kazimirovich Yablonsky, 25 Candidate of Sciences and 2 Doctor of Sciences dissertations have been successfully defended.