- Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Iakiv Fishchenko
- Orthopedic surgeon, neurosurgeon
- Chief Researcher of the Clinic of Spine Surgery of the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
- Head of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Endoscopic Spine Surgery
- In 2004, he graduated from the National Medical University O.O. Bogomolets
- 2004-2006 he passed an internship and master's degree at the Faculty of Traumatology and Orthopedics of the NMU O.O. Bogomolets
- 2006 successfully defended his master's work
- In 2008 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic: Mechanogenesis of the basic and compensatory lumbar curvature of dysplastic scoliosis and the principles of its operative correction
- In 2017 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: Conservative treatment of pain in the lumbar spine in degenerative-dystrophic diseases
- In 2021 he was awarded the scientific title of professor
- He worked as junior (2006-2008), senior (2008-2014), leading (2017-2021) and chief researcher (2021) in the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine

Range of interests
- Surgery of chest deformities
- Endoscopic spine surgery for degenerative diseases
- Scoliotic deformity of the spine
- Traumatic injuries of the spine
- Interventional treatments for back pain (targeted epidural blocks, radiofrequency neuroablation)