Shishkin Yury Mikhailovich

Education

Yuri Shishkin graduated from VMA named after S.M. Kirov with a degree in Medical Affairs.

Career

2024: Appointment as Head of the St. Petersburg Health Committee

In November 2024, it became known about the appointment of Yuri Shishkin as the new head of the St. Petersburg Health Committee. He replaced Dmitry Lisovets, who headed the committee since 2019. He moved to the position of adviser to the governor.

Before becoming the head of the St. Petersburg Health Committee, Shishkin served as the head physician of the city hospital No. 9. No more detailed biography about Yuri Shishkin was found in open sources.

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St. Petersburg Health Committee

As noted by the publication "Fontanka," the medical community of St. Petersburg does not know Shishkin well. But his name is well known to the former governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Yakovlev. On the sidelines, they say that it was he who lobbied for the appointment of Shishkin to the post of chairman of the committee.

He's a good doctor and organizer. If he was promoted, I am very glad, - Vladimir Yakovlev himself told the publication, who at the same time did not confirm his participation in lobbying for Shishkin's candidacy in front of his colleague, Governor Alexander Beglov

The Health Committee, headed by Yuri Shishkin, conducts the state policy of St. Petersburg in the field of health protection of citizens, develops and implements programs for the development of health care, disease prevention, drug provision, sanitary and hygienic education of the population of St. Petersburg, promotion of a healthy lifestyle and other health issues.^[1]

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