Abaev Yuri Kafarovich, MD, Professor, Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal. In 1972 he graduated from Minsk State Medical Institute. In 1972-1973, he completed an internship in pediatric surgery. In 1973-1975, he worked as a surgeon at Kostyukovichi District Hospital of the Mogilev region. In 1975-1984, he was a surgeon, the head of the department of the Pediatric Surgery Center at the 1st State Clinical Hospital in Minsk. In 1984-2015 - Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Minsk State Medical Institute (since 2001 – Belarusian State Medical University). In 2010-2024, he was the editor–in-chief of the official body of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, the scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal “Healthcare”. Since May 2024, he has been the editor–in-chief of the scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal "Medical Journal" of the educational institution "Belarusian State Medical University". In 2005, he defended his doctoral thesis on "Surgical infection in children: pathomorphosis, treatment" (clinical and experimental research). He has the highest qualification category in the specialty "Surgery". The main research areas: surgery of purulent-inflammatory diseases, pathomorphosis of surgical infection in childhood (evolutionary aspects of etiology, epidemiology, clinic, diagnosis, treatment). Philosophical, ethical, sociological problems of medicine, history of medicine. He is the author of 6 monographs; 9 educational and methodical manuals, 1 invention, 540 scientific publications. He was awarded the badges "Excellent Healthcare Worker" (2007), "Excellent Printer" (2014). Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal "Military Medicine" (Minsk, Belarus), member of the editorial Board of the scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal "Medical News" (Minsk, Belarus).