Specialization
I am a pediatric surgeon, Head of the EMC Surgery Center, MD, Professor. My main specialization is organ transplantation in children and adults, as well as surgical correction of the most complex pathologies of the genitourinary system.
For the first time in Russia, he performed successful transplants of the pancreatoduodenal complex and small intestine from a postmortem donor, operations that were considered impossible for a long time. Under my leadership, leading kidney transplantation programs for children and adults have been established and continue to operate in two major federal centers: the Russian National Research Center. Academician B.V. Petrovsky and the National Research Medical Center for Children's Health. I started a kidney transplant program for children at the Russian National Research Center, and also organized and conducted 7 annual pediatric transplant schools for doctors.
The total length of service is 35 years. In EMC — since 2026. He completed internships at the Hopital Necker des Enfants Malades clinic in Paris. I am a member of the leading international societies of transplantologists (TTS, IPTA). Author of numerous publications in the world's leading journals, co-author of the manual of surgery. My patients call me a "doctor from God" and note that they feel protected around me.
He defended his PhD in 1997 and his doctorate in 2003. In 2009, he received the title of professor with a degree in transplantation and artificial organs.
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Competencies
Organ transplantation
— Kidney transplantation for children
— Pancreatoduodenal complex transplantation
— Small intestine transplantation from a postmortem donor
— Pancreatic transplantation
— Liver transplantation (including laparoscopic removal of the left lateral sector from a lifetime donor)
— Surgical treatment of aortic coarctation
Surgical correction in urology and abdominal surgery
— Ureterovesicostomy of the native ureter
— Reconstructive surgery for pathology of the genitourinary system
— Surgical correction of vesicoureteral reflux
— Interventional methods of correction of vascular complications and biliodigestive strictures after liver transplantation
Conservative treatment and patient management
— Immunosuppressive therapy after organ transplantation
— Treatment of reperfusion injury of the transplanted kidney
— Management of patients with interferonopathies
— Vaccination of solid organ transplant recipients
— Treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD)
— Post-transplant medical support
Experience and education
He graduated from the Pediatric Faculty of the Second Moscow Medical Institute in 1989, completed his residency in pediatric surgery at the Filatov Children's Clinical Hospital No. 13 in 1989-1991.
From September 1991 to March 2000, he worked as a surgeon at the Kidney Transplantation Department of the Russian Ministry of Health. In 1999, he completed an internship at Hopital Necker des Enfants Malades in Paris. Under the guidance of academician V.I. Shumakov, he defended his dissertations, in 1997, the candidate's thesis "Kidney transplantation in children", in 2003, the doctoral thesis "Postoperative treatment of reperfusion injury of a transplanted kidney: a new look at the pathogenesis of reperfusion injury". The title of professor in the specialty "Transplantology and artificial organs" was awarded on 16.01.2009.
From March 2000 to September 2019, he was in charge of the Kidney Transplantation Department at the B.V. Petrovsky Russian National Research Medical Center, where he began a kidney transplant program for children, which he completed for the first time in Successful transplants of pancreatoduodenal complex and small intestine from a postmortem donor in Russia.
From November 2019 to May 2021, he headed the Organ Transplantation Department of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Children's Health of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Since May 2021, he has been leading the program of preparation for transplantation and post-transplant medical support at OLLA-MED LLC. He has been in the personnel reserve of the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation since February 2025.
M.M. Kaabak has created and continues to operate treatment programs for patients with serious illnesses.:
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kidney transplantation program for adults and children of the B.V.Petrovsky Russian National Research Medical University.
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kidney transplantation program of FSAU National Research Medical Center for Children's Health
Organ transplantation programs created under the leadership of M.M. Kaabak make it possible to achieve success in treating categories of patients previously considered inoperable or hopeless, not only through unique medical technologies, but also advanced communication practices when communicating with patients, their relatives, and medical staff, developed and put into practice jointly with the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. named after M.V.Lomonosov.
From 2009 to 2016, under the leadership of M.M. Kaabak, 7 annual schools on pediatric transplantation were organized and conducted for doctors involved in preparing children for transplantation and their medical support after surgery.:
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Moscow, 2009
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St. Petersburg, 2010
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Istra 2011
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Suzdal 2013
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Peterhof 2014
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Sochi 2015
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Zavidovo 2016
The leading world experts were involved in the work of the school as lecturers.
Страница профессора Михаила Каабака на Википедии
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Каабак,_Михаил_Михайлович
Publications
Educational and methodical work for the last 5 years:
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Development of the software code and information content of the database: registry of patients with transplanted organs https://baza.pochka.org/rnch_net_prod
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Moderator of the section "Current issues of kidney transplantation in children" "Kidney transplantation in the 21st century. An interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of terminal CRF" in online format on November 20, 2020
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Moderator of the Symposium on Kidney Transplantation, 75th anniversary conference of the Syzganov Institute, Almaty, September 30, 2021
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Member of the Organizing Committee of the XIX RUSSIAN CONGRESS "Innovative Technologies in Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery" October 20-21, 2020
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Chapter "Kidney transplantation" in the monograph "Encyclopedia of pediatric thoracoabdominal oncosurgery" edited by A.B.Ryabov, M.I.Davydov, Moscow 2020
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Moderator of the plenary session of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference Totum-Verum 2025, Moscow-St. Petersburg-Samara, October 21, 2025
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Moderator of the Round Table "Medical Anthropology to help a clinician: see more than a diagnosis"
In the framework of the XIII International Interdisciplinary Symposium "Medical Anthropology: Science, Education, Practice", IEA RAS, Moscow, November 26, 2025.
Other articles
List of publications over the last 5 years
2025
Factors associated with statural growth in pediatric kidney transplant recipients with focus on metabolic acidosis
Pediatric Nephrology. Vol. 40. No. 6. pp. 2059-2070. Read the publicationHistory of kidney transplantation
Bulletin of the Medical Institute "REAVIZ": rehabilitation, doctor and health. Vol. 15. No. 1. pp. 150-170. Read the publication2024
Practical basics of surgery
A guide to practical exercises / Moscow. Read the publication2021
On the prospects for the implementation of the transplantation program in the Samara region
Bulletin of the Medical Institute "REAVIZ": rehabilitation, doctor and health. No. 3. pp. 102-107. Read the publicationIssues of vaccination against Covid-19 in solid organ transplant recipients
Bulletin of the medical Institute "REAVIZ": rehabilitation, doctor and health. No. 4 (52). pp. 5-14. Read the publicationThe course of the new Covid-19 coronavirus infection in solid organ recipients depends on the type of supportive immunosuppression, according to the local transplant registry
Clinical and experimental surgery. The journal named after Academician B.V. Petrovsky. Vol. 9. No. 4 (34). pp. 12-19. Read the publicationReviews
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