Date and place of Birth
05.04.1961 Yerevan, Armenia
Education
2021 Diploma in the field of Family Medicine, Yerevan, Armenia
1998 Diploma of Candidate of Medical Sciences (equal to PhD), Yerevan, Armenia. Dissertation entitled: Peculiarities of the treatment of Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) and Membrane Phospholipids regulation with Children
1984-1985 Republican Children Hospital, Residency in Pediatrics, Yerevan, Armenia
1978-1984 Yerevan State Medical Institute named M. Heratsi, Diploma of Pediatrician
1968-1978 Secondary School #129 named after Gay, Graduation Certificate with honor with a physics and mathematics class, Yerevan, Armenia
Work Experience
1989-present Yerevan State Medical University, Department of Pediatrics #2, Associate Professor (for native and foreign students). One of the founders and organizers of FMF National Children Centre in Armenia, pediatrician, specialist of FMF outpatient service in Arabkir MC-ICAH
2009-2012 Program Director of Residents: Department of Pediatrics #2 and Arabkir MC-ICAH
2008-2009 Lecturer of the courses of First Medical Aid in Extreme Situations. Cavendish University in Armenia
2006 Specialist, Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar; Certificate, Reference from Consultant Cornell University Ashraf T Soliman, MD, PhD(UK), FRCP (Edin), Acknowledgment from Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Oral Presentation “FMF in Armenian children”
1987-1989 Clinical Children Hospital #1, reanimatologist, Department of NICU
1985-1987 Yeghegnadzor Central Regional Hospital, Pediatrician, Vayots Dzor region
Trainings/Seminars
2020 Winter school: “Drugs, Dilemmas and Decisions in Pediatric Rheumatology”. Lausanne, Villarce, Switzerland, JIR forum, Certificate
2020 Basic course on “Ocular inflammation”, JIR forum, Lausanne, Switzerland, Certificate
2019 Winter school: Basic course on “Autoinflammatory Diseases”. Lausanne, Villarce, Switzerland, Poster presentation. JIR forum, Certificate
2018 “EHMSG Meeting Maastricht and Armenian Guidelines of the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group (one of the representatives of the Armenian group). Nice, France
2018 Postgraduate training courses: “Education of Pedagogy, Psychology and Designing tests Methodology”, Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2017 Teaching course “Pediatric Rheumatology”, Yerevan, Armenia. /Partnership Program Yerevan - Zurich/, Certificate
2017 Master Class “Endoscopy - colonoscopy in Pediatric Gastroenterology”, Yerevan, Armenia /Partnership Program Yerevan - Zurich/, Certificate
2016 Armenian-Russian Symposium. ”Actual problems of transplantology”. Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2016 Seminar on Updates in Mental Health, Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2016 OMI Satellite Symposium “Pediatrics”. Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2016 Seminar. “The modern approaches of nutritionology”.Yerevan, Armenia /Partnership program Yerevan – Paris/, Certificate.
2015 Teaching Course on Pediatric Nephrology. International Pediatric Nephrology Association. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2015 Winner of Erasmus Mundus MEDEA 2014-2015 Project, (Host University: Santiago de Compostela, Spain). Oral presentation: “About Armenia”
2014 Postgraduate training courses: “Education of Pedagogy, Psychology and Designing tests Methodology”, Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2014 Postgraduate training “Pediatrics, actual problems of Pediatric Rheumatology”. Scientific Center of Children՚s Health, Educational supervisor Prof. E. Alekseeva, Moscow, Russian Federation; Certificate
2011 Observership in Pediatrics “Krankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung”, AAF Vienna, Austria; Certificate
2011 Workshop Healthcare System with Prof. Dr. Manfred Maier. Institute for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Oral Presentation: “Healthcare System in Armenia”
2011 Course “Introduction to Good Clinical Practice”, Vienna School of Clinical Research, Vienna, Austria; Certificate
2011 Seminar “Clinical Research at a Glance, A Short Introduction”, Vienna School of Clinical Research, Vienna, Austria; Certificate
2011 Russian Academy of Postgraduate Medical Studies, “Pediatrics”; Moscow, Russian Federation, Certificate
2009 OMI Satellite Symposium “Neonatology”. Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2008 Workshop “Teaching course on Developmental Pediatrics”. Yerevan, Armenia /Partnership Program Yerevan - Zurich/, Certificate
2006 Course “IDAMS/Basic Life Support. Doha, Qatar; Certificate
2006 Seminar “Pediatric nephrology”. AAF, Salzburg, Austria; Certificate, oral presentation
2005 EU - TASIS- VET Armenia. Support put the development of an integrated VOCATIONAL education and training system. Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2005 Training Course “Metabolic Diseases in Children”, Yerevan, Armenia. /Partnership Program Yerevan - Zurich/, Certificate
2005 Seminar “Emergency Care in Pediatrics”. AAF, Salzburg, Austria; Oral presentation Certificate
2005 Language Training ESP course “English in Medicine”. Level-Advanced, organized by Association of English Language Teacher’s of Armenia (AELTA), approved by the British Council and American University of Armenia, certificate
2004 Attainment a score of 90% excellent on the ESP evaluation examination, Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2004, 2003, 2003 Training Courses, Workshop “Pediatric Gastroenterology”. Yerevan, Armenia, /Partnership Program Yerevan - Zurich/, Certificate
2002 Postgraduate training Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Sheba Medical Centre, Centre of FMF, Educational supervisor Prof. Avi Livneh, (Reference from Professor), Tel Hashomer, Israel; Certificate; Oral Presentation ”FMF in Armenian and Jewish populations”
2002 Emergency Medicine Workshop, Tel Hashomer, Israel; Certificate
1999 Scientific aspects of FMF, at Sheba Medical Centre, Tel Hashomer, Israel
1995 “Rheumatological diseases with adults” Yerevan Institute of Advanced Medical Studies, at Yerevan Centre for Cardiology & Rheumatology for Adults; Certificate
1995 “Children Cardiology and Rheumatology” Yerevan Institute of Advanced Medical Studies, at Yerevan Centre for Cardiology & Rheumatology for Children; Certificate
Conferences
2021 VII National Pediatric Conference of Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2021 Dr.Raffy Hovanessian International Digestive Disease Virtual Conference. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2020 ESCI virtual meeting 2020/Covid 19 edition, Flash presentation, Certificate
2019 Modern pediatrics, St. Petersburg-White Nights//Russian forum with International participation, St. Petersburg, Russia, Certificate
2019 10th International Conference on FMF and Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases, Genoa, Italy; Certificate, Guest, Poster presentation
2018 Adapting European guidelines on Helicobacter Pylori Management and Faecal Microbiota Transplantation to use in Armenia as a model for low-resource countries. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2018 VI National Pediatric Conference of Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2018 Pediatric school courses, Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2017 1st Saint Petersburg Congress on Autoimmunity. The Bridge Between East and West. St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Certificate
2017 Pediatric school courses, Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2016 V National Pediatric Conference of Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2016 Conference “PReS 2016”, 23rd European Pediatric Rheumatology Congress, Genoa, Italy, Certificate (winner of PReS bursary), poster presentation
2016 II International Conference of Eurasian Association of Internal Medicine. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2015 IV National Pediatric Conference of Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2015 VIII International Conference on FMF and Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases, Dresden, Germany; Certificate
2014 Conference “Armenian Pediatric Association”. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2014 Conference “PReS 2014”, 21st European Pediatric Rheumatology Congress Belgrade, Serbia, Certificate (winner of PReS bursary)
2013 Conference “Excellence in Pediatrics 2013”, Doha, Qatar; Certificate
2013 Conference “Pediatric Gastroenterology and Infection Diseases”. /Partnership Program Yerevan - Zurich/, Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2013 Conference “PReS 2013”, 20th European Pediatric Rheumatology Congress Ljubljana, Slovenia, Certificate, poster presentation (winner of PReS bursary)
2013 II International Conference of Armenian Hepatological Forum, Yerevan Armenia, Certificate
2013 1st Taiwan-Armenian Medical Conference, Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2012 Conference “Excellence in Pediatrics 2012”, Madrid, Spain, Certificate, poster presentation
2012 Conference “Armenian Pediatric Association”. Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2012 Symposia on Current Issues of Chronic kidney Disease and Diabetes Treatment. /Partnership Program Yerevan - Antwerp/, NAF Association, Yerevan, Armenia, Certificate
2011 II International Educational Meeting on Periodic Fever Syndromes and Autoinflammatory Diseases, Budapest, Hungary, Certificate
2011 X Russian Conference of Pediatrics and Pediatric surgery. Moscow, Russian Federation; Certificate
2011 XV Conference of Pediatrics. Moscow, Russian Federation; Certificate
2010 International Congress Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of YSMU foundation. Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2009 III International Conference on Integration of traditional and contemporary medicine, Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2008 Conference “Armenian Pediatric Association”. Yerevan, Armenia; Certificate
2008 V International Conference on FMF and Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases, Roma, Italy; Certificate, poster presentation (winner of PReS bursary)
2006 Sports Science Congress hosted by Doha Asian games Organizing Committee, Doha, Qatar; Certificate
2004 XI International Conference on Behchet’s Disease, Antalya, Turkey; Certificate, poster presentation
2002 III International Conference on FMF and Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases, Montpelier, France; Certificate
Research, Publications
The number of publications and articles published in Armenia and abroad exceeds 74
Member of: PReS, JIR cohorte, ESCI, ISSAID, Armenian Hepatological Association
Languages: Armenian, Russian, English, Spanish (basic)
Civil status: Widow, two daughters