Prof. Igor Shubnyakov

MD, PhD, orthopaedic trauma surgeon of the highest category and professor at the Department of Hospital Surgery with a course in Traumatology, Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University. More than 25 years in the specialty: he began at the Vreden Institute in emergency trauma, served on the urgent hip arthroplasty team for proximal femoral fractures, headed the septic osteology department, acted as the institute’s academic secretary, and has been Chief Research Fellow since 2016. His interests cover hip arthroplasty and joint-preserving surgery, epidemiological research, quality of life and long-term outcomes, and the treatment of periprosthetic infection. Author of more than 260 scientific works and co-author of reference manuals on hip arthroplasty and hip surgery, as well as the national manuals on traumatology and orthopaedics.