V. P. Zemlyanoi - Dr. Sci. Med., professor. Place  of work - North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov,  position -  Dean of Surgery Faculty, head of the Department of Faculty Surgery named after I. I. Grekov. (ORCID) 

Information on membership in Editorial Boards  / Advisory Boards of other publications (with the name of the peer-reviewed scientific publication): Newsletter of NWSMU n.a. I.I. Mechnikov / Newsletter of North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov / Herald of North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov (list of HAC № 543), Journal of Experimental and Clinical Surgery (list of HAC № 626), Grekov's Bulletin of Surgery (Scopus), VESTNIK SURGU. MEDICINA / Vestnik Surgutskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Medicina (list of HAC № 558). Membership in international and foreign scientific societies: member of the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association of Commonwealth of Independent States.

Justification of significant contribution to the development of the relevant field of knowledge:  development, improvement and justification of new methods for diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of hepatopancreatobiliary area, development and justification of diagnostic and treatment algorithms for various surgical diseases occurring or developing on the background of acute and chronic infectious diseases, development and improvement of pathogenetic approaches in surgical treatment of abdominal hernias.