He was born on December 27, 1947 in a family of doctors. After graduating from high school, he worked as a nurse.
In 1965, he was enrolled in the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute (now St. Petersburg State Medical Pediatric University), which he graduated in 1971. During his studies, he was actively involved in scientific research activities, which he continued later. Defended candidate and doctoral theses, which were dedicated to children’s vascular surgery.
In 1980 he formed the problematic laboratory of angiomicrosurgery (gold medals and diplomas of the highest quality at the Union and Russian student conferences annually in 1983-1998).
In 1987, on his initiative, a unique angiomicrosurgery department was opened for children, where issues of diagnosis and treatment of children who need complex reconstructive intervention are developed. Every year, 400 surgical operations were performed in the department, more than 7000 children were provided with consulting assistance. Doctoral and fifteen candidate theses are kept on the materials of the department.
1996 – 2001 Chief Pediatric Surgeon of St. Petersburg.
The main works were presented at international conferences: “Progress and problems in the treatment of heart and blood vessels” 1997 St. Petersburg; In the materials of the 2nd congress, in Rostov-on-Don; at the 4th congress “Modern technologies in pediatrics and pediatric surgery”, in Moscow 2005 and 2006; At the International Congress on Cardiovascular Surgery, Barcelona 2008; At the 9th Russian Congress, Moscow 2010; At Venous Forum St. Petersburg 2013; 29th International Conference in Ryazan, 2014; International Congress “Slavic Venous Forum”, Vitebsk 2015; 12th International Conference 2016 in Novosibirsk.
Professor Dimitri Kupatadze is the author of 310 scientific works, 7 of which are patented as a unique inventions.
In 1999, he was awarded the “Honorary Citizen of the City of Louisville, Kentucky” award for a presentation on pediatric vascular surgery at the International Conference on Medicine for the New Century.
In 1999, this direction was awarded the first prize at the competition of surgical programs of the Russian Federation.
In 2004 – 2023 He was the chief Pediatric Surgeon of St. Petersburg, a member of the St. Petersburg Committee on Problematic Issues of Cardiovascular Surgery, a member of the City Commission of Pediatric Surgery and Anesthesiology-Reanimatology, the president of the St. Petersburg Association of Pediatric Angelologists and Vascular Surgeons named after Ambroise Pare.