Mikhail Revtovich

Mikhail Revtovich was born in Minsk.

In 1998, he graduated from Minsk State Medical Institute (now Belarusian State Medical University).
From 1999 to 2001, he did clinical residency course on the specialty «Surgery» at the Department of Surgical Diseases № 2 of Belarusian State Medical University.

From 2001 to 2004, he did PhD course at the Department of Surgical Diseases № 1 of Belarusian State Medical University. During his postgraduate studies, Mikhail Revtovich did retraining courses on the English language at Minsk State Linguistic University, Faculty of Foreign Languages. In 2004, he defended Candidate’s thesis entitled «Inhibitors of cytokine production and lipid peroxidation in the treatment of acute pancreatitis». After defending his thesis, he worked as an assistant at the Department of Surgical Diseases No. 1 of the Belarusian State Medical University within the period from 2004 to 2007.

Since March 2007, he worked as a senior researcher, and then as a leading researcher of the department of abdominal oncopathology at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center named after N.N. Aleksandrov. Since September 2020, he had been working as chief researcher at the laboratory of thoracic oncopathology. Since September 2015, he worked as a thoracic surgeon at the Oncology Department of Gastroesophageal Pathology of Alexandrov Scientific and Research Center for Oncology.

In 2010, he got the highest qualification category as an oncologist.

In 2019, he defended Doctoral thesis entitled «Complex treatment of locally advanced stomach cancer».

From 2009 to 2014, he did a course on international rules for conducting clinical trials (GCP) at the Center for Expertise and Testing in Healthcare of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus.

In 2012, Mikhail Revtovich completed an internship at the Department of Surgery and Oncology of Liverpool Royal Medical University at the Royal University Hospital in Liverpool (UK).

As part of the educational program of the European Society of Surgical Oncology, he completed an Advanced Course in the Management of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) after Cytoreductive Surgery) (Germany, 2014), as well as a training course on 3D- laparoscopy (June 18-19, 2015, Hamburg, Germany).

He is an author and co-author of more than 290 scientific papers (including in a number of leading journals - European J. Surgical Oncology, J. Gastroinest. Oncology, Carbohydrate Polymers. Indian J. Surgical Oncology, etc.), 18 inventions, 8 rationalization proposals, 9 instructions for use approved by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus. He is one of the developers of the national clinical protocols "Algorithms for the diagnosis and treatment of malignant neoplasms" (2018). He is a co-author of chapters in the Guide to Oncology in 2 volumes, ed. O.G. Sukonko. - Minsk: “Belarusian encyclapedia ime Piatrusya Brouki”, 2016.

The main topics of scientific publications:

• complex treatment of gastric cancer, including the use of various options for intraperitoneal chemotherapy, including intraperitoneal perfusion thermochemotherapy;
• combined and complex treatment of tumors of the pancreatoduodenal region.

Mikhail Revtovich was awarded with an honorary diploma of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus (2012), a diploma "Participant of the competition" Doctor of the Year of the Republic of Belarus "for 2012, a diploma of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Oncology and Medical Radiology named after V.I. N.N. Aleksandrov "For active and fruitful inventive and rationalization activities for the Day of the Inventor and Rationalizer of the Republic of Belarus" (2019), the badge "Excellence in Healthcare of the Republic of Belarus" (2020).