Vladimir Nikolaevich Ilyin is an outstanding Russian doctor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Doctor of Russia, doctor of the highest category. The country's leading pediatric cardiac surgeon with many years of experience in the field of cardiovascular surgery.

Diagnosis and surgical treatment of congenital heart defects in newborns and young children, open heart surgery, emergency cardiac surgery in newborns, postoperative intensive care and rehabilitation of patients.

Filatov Children's Hospital
2008 — present
Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care
NCSSH named after A.N.Bakulev
1990 — 2006
Head of the Department of Emergency Cardiac Surgery of newborns and children of the 1st year of life

1970 — Graduated from the Russian National Research Medical University named after N. I. Pirogov with a degree in Medical Science (basic education)
After 1970. He completed professional training at the Bakulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery (specializing in cardiac surgery/cardiovascular surgery ‑ the exact years and the name of the program require clarification).

V. N. Ilyin's research activity is devoted to the development of the most relevant areas of pediatric cardiac surgery. He made a great contribution to the development of modern methods of artificial blood circulation during cardiac surgery in newborns and infants, surgical correction of the most complex congenital heart defects in young children (transposition of the main arteries, tetrad of Fallot, multiple defects of the interventricular septum, double divergence of the main arteries from the right ventricle, etc.), postoperative intensive care.
He is the author of more than 240 scientific papers, 22 of which have been published in the foreign press.

Member of the Russian and foreign medical communities: the Russian Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons, the Association of Pediatric Cardiologists of Russia, the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, the European Association of Pediatric Cardiac Surgeons, the World Society of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery.