Yuriy Pya

President of the Board of JSC "National Scientific Cardiac Surgery Center", at Astana, Kazakhstan. Doctor of Medical Science, member of the World Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons (WSCTS), the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (EACT), Chief cardiac surgeon of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

After graduating the II Moscow State Medical Institute named after Pirogov N.I., he became one of the best cardiac surgeons in Kyrgyzstan where he worked from 1982 -1994. In 2003, Yuriy Pya was recruited as a Chief of Cardiac Surgery Department in Republican Clinical Hospital, at Astana, Kazakhstan. Further, he became the Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Center for Cardiac Surgery in 2010.

For the first time in CIS countries, Yuriy Pya together with a colleague from Czech Republic, Jan Pirk has successfully transplanted donor heart to patient with chronic heart failure and implanted left ventricular assist device of the last generation (VAD). Largely due to his prominent work, Kazakhstan is now among 20 countries providing unique heart surgery.

Yuriy Pya is also the author of numerous scientific publications, member of national and international associations and became an awardee of distinct state awards.