Assistant Professor of Microsurgery Course of Yerevan State Medical University. Secretary General of Armenian Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and Microsurgeons
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
1997 Yerevan State Medical University Certification: Doctor of Medicine awarded by the resolution of the Council of Yerevan State Medical University and the Supreme Certifying Commission of the Republic of Armenia. Thesis: Forearm as a donor site for island flap for wrist defect substitution
1994-1997 Graduate School of Medicine of Yerevan State Medical University, Fellowship, Department of Reconstructive Microsurgery and Plastic Surgery
1992-1994 Mikaelian Surgical Institute, Ministryof Health of Republic of Armenia, Resident, awarded Diploma of Microsurgeryand Plastic Surgery, Department of Microsurgery and Plastic Surgery
1986-1992 Yerevan State Medical UniversityDegree of Doctor of Medicine awarded with honors
GPA 4.0
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1996-present University Hospital No 1 of YerevanState Medical University, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Departmentof Reconstructive Microsurgery and Plastic Surgery
Treatment of patients with hand disorders, war injuries, and congenitalmalformations reconstuctive operations with free and island flaps, cosmeticsurgery, replantation and transplantation of tissues, brachial plexus injuries.
Director of Residency Program, Coordinator of International Students Program, Department of Reconstructive Microsurgery and Plastic surgery.
Research interests: New donor-sites island flaps from forearm and wristinvestigation in surgical flap ischemia using laboratory animals, lymphokineand ischemia reperfusion injuries
1998-present Children’s Hospital of Stepanakert, surgical consultant
1997-present Military Hospital of Stepanakert, Stepanakert, Republic of Nagorno Karabagh, surgical consultant
1997-present Burn Center, Yerevan, Armenia, surgical consultant
1996-present Military Hospital of Yerevan, Surgical Consultant, Rehabilitation Center “Project Hope”
1995-1996 Mikaelian Surgical Institute & Ministry of Health of Republic of Armenia, Staff doctor and Staff lecturer, Surgical treatment of patients with hand disorders, war injuries, and congenital malformations, reconstuctive operations with free and island flaps, cosmetic surgery.
1994-1995 National Institute of Health Specialized Medical Fields
Senior lecturer, Surgical consultant for the diagnosis and treatment of hand disorders
OTHER POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
1995 Surgery Center, Moscow, Russia
Program: Visiting surgical training at the department of Microsurgery
1994 Clinic du Parc, Lyon, France
Program: Visiting surgical training Department of Hand Surgery
ACADEMIC AWARDS & HONORS
1992 Diploma for Doctor of Medicine awarded with honors
1988 Yerevan State Medical University Student Scientific Conference: Awarded second place for research article entitled “Microcirculatory systems during acute cholecistitis”
1987 Diploma for excellence in Histology studies
1986 Biology Olympiad of Armenia, First Place
ABSTRACTS AND PUBLICATIONS
1999 “ Reconstructive Alternatives of the Complex Defects of the Hand Tissues” 13th Symposium of the International Society of Reconstructive Surgery, June 22-26 LA CA
1999 “Combined Treatment of Radial Nerve Injury” Report of Inernational Rehabilitation Symposium Yerevan
1999 “Burn injures of the wrist in children” Report of International Rehabilitation Symposium Yerevan
1999 “Transplantation of Muscle in Treatment of Denervative and Postraumatic Injuries of Forearm Muscle” Report of International Symposium ( Medical Aspects of the Earthquake in Armenia) materials Yerevan 1999 Page 109
1998 “New Approaches to the Treatment of Non-union Vascularized Bone Transplants, Used by Forearm Bone Defect Substitutions”4th Congress of the European Federation of Societies of Microsurgery, August1998.
1998 “The Distally Based Superficial Sural Artery Flap” Seventh Armenian Medical World Congress
Lyon June 1998
1998” Analysis of Operative Results for Thoraco-Dorsal Flap Transplantation in the center of Plastic Reconstractive Surgery and Microsurgery” ” Seventh Armenian Medical World Congress
Lyon June 1998
1997 “Cutaneo-facial flap based on perforate from median nerve artery” Thesis of the traumatologists’ annual meeting, Russia, Nighnij-Novgorod
1997 “New possibilities of application of thoraco-dorsal flap in Reconstructive Surgery” Thesis of the traumatologists’ annual meeting, Russia, Nighnij-Novgorod
1997 “Surgical treatment of the chronic tubercular tendovaginitis” International scientific congress, Serbia
1996 Lecture “Posterior Interosseous Flap in Reconstructive Surgery” in Istfahan Medical University, Tehran, Iran
1996 “Organization of the medical service for patients with guns shot injuries”
Thesis of the trauma surgeons’ annual meeting , Republic of Armenia (II session), Yerevan
1996 “Morphological changes of cell membranes during stress” World microstructure. Proceedings of fifth annual meeting. Yerevan
1996 “Treatment of combined defects of wrist with island flaps” International Congress of Reconstructive Surgery, Tehran
1996 “Use of posterior interosseous flap in treatment of wrist tissue defects” International Congress of Reconstructive Surgery,Tehran
1996 “Breast reconstruction after radical mastectomy using TRAM island flap” Thesis of annual session of oncologists, Yerevan
1996 “Our experience in using posterior interosseous flap in reconstruction of the wrist”
Thesis of the trauma surgeons’ annual meeting , Republic of Armenia (II session), Yerevan
1996 “The features of angeoarchitechtonics of the posterior interosseous artery”
Thesis of the traumathologists’ annual meeting , Republic of Armenia (II session), Yerevan
1995 “ Substitution of small wrist defects by vascularisland flaps”
National Institute of Health, Yerevan, Annotated articles, pg.139
1988 “Microcirculatory systems during acute cholecistititis”
Yerevan Medical University’s student scientific journal 1988, vol 1,pg.17
VOLUNTEER PROJECTS
President, Armenian Branch of Land and Culture Organization,a private organization to preserve historic and architectural monuments in Armenia with summer construction campaigns staffed by Armenian Diaspora volunteers from Europe, the USA and Canada.
Web-site address: http://www.lcousa.org
Secretary General, Armenian Association of Plasticand Reconstructive Surgery
OTHER
Fluent in Armenian, English, Russian. Fluentin computer applications, IBM compatibles, Microsoft Windows 3.1x, Windows95,97 and NT, Working with databases (Microsoft ACCESS), Word processing- Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
HOBBIES:
Tennis, swimming, reading, music, Armenian architecture of the middle ages
REFERENCES:
Dr. Aram Ghazarian
Chirurgie de la Main et du Membre Superieur
Polyclinique Orthopedique de LYON
86 Boulevard des Belges
69006 LYON
Tel 0472448754 FAX 0472448898
Edward A. Athanasian MD
Hospital for Special Surgery
535 East 70th Street
New York NY 10021
USA
Tel 212 606 1962
Fax 212 774 2880
Prof James R. Urbaniak MD
Duke University Medical Centrer
Durham, North Carolina 27710
Office 6842476
Home (919)6817378
Ulrich Dorn MD
Chairman Orthopaedic Clinic
General Hospital Salzburg
Associate Proffesor
A-5020 Salzburg
Austria
4366244822901