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Radiation Oncologist

Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center of Oncology, Yerevan, Armenia

MD, PhD

 

 Qualifications / education:

Sept 1992 – July 1998 Medical Diploma (with honors) from Yerevan State Medical University, Faculty of General Medicine

Sept 1998 – Sept 2000 Certificate of Completion of Residency in Oncology and Radiotherapy, National Institute of Health, Yerevan, Armenia.

Oct 2006 - Mar 2007 IAEA training fellowship, in the field of Radioisotope and Radiation Treatment, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, United Kingdom.

Oct 2012 - Dec 2012 IAEA training fellowship in the field of Radioisotope and Radiation Treatment, University Clinic for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Skopje, FYROM

Apr 2016 PhD thesis on Prognostic Factors in Radiotherapy of Bone Metastases, National Center of Oncology / Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

 

Main areas of professional interest/specialization: Radiotherapy of breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, palliative radiotherapy of bone metastases, evidence based practice in oncology, ICT in oncology and radiotherapy

 

Professional experience/appointments:

Nov 1997 - Aug 1998 Laboratory assistant (part time), Yerevan State Medical University, Department of Pathophysiology, Yerevan, Armenia

Nov 2000 - Nov 2002 Military Physician, Lieutenant (Compulsory Military Duty) - Vanadzor Military Hospital, Vanadzor, Armenia

Jan 2003 - Oct 2016 Radiation Oncologist, Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center of Oncology, Yerevan, Armenia

Oct 2016 onwards Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center of Oncology, Yerevan, Armenia

Sept 2009 onwards Assistant professor (part-time), Chair of Oncology, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

2017 onwards Principal Investigator, "Study of Efficacy of Curcumin in combination with Chemotherapy in patients with advanced breast Cancer": randomized, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03072992

2016 - 2018 National Counterpart, IAEA TC project ARM6013, "Strengthening Nuclear Medicine by Introducing New Imaging Technologies"

2018 onwards National Counterpart, IAEA TC project ARM6014, "Improving the Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy and Medical Imaging".

 

Professional membership & associations:

2000 ESTRO, full (electronic) membership

2004 Association of Armenian Oncologists full member;

2004 Armenian Medical Association, full member

2004 Armenian Association of Specialists in Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Oncology (AASNMRO), Founding/Board member

2008 Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM), Board member/Ex. Secretary

2010 ESMO, associate member

2012 Armenian Association of Haematology and Oncology, ful member

2017 Eurasian Journal of Oncology and Clinical Medicine, Editorial board member

 

International Teaching

13-17 Apr, 2015 Faculty member, 2nd German-Armenian Telemedicine and eHealth Workshop, THD, Deggendorf, Germany

27 Aug–7 Sept, 2018 Invited Lecturer/Expert, IAEA National Training Course on Ensuring Radiation Safety in Radiotherapy, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

9-13 Nov, 2018 Faculty member, ESO-ASCO Masterclass in Clinical Oncology, Yerevan, Armenia

 

Continuing Professional Development

• ESTRO Training Course on Physics for Clinical Radiotherapy, Leuven, Belgium: 27-31 Aug, 2000;

• ESTRO Training Course on Imaging for Target Volume Determination in Radiotherapy, Nice, France: 8-12 Jun, 2003;

• Armenian Medical Association Teaching Course on The Principles of Biostatistics, Yerevan, Armenia: 23 Jan- 12 Mar, 2004;

• ESTRO Teaching Course on Radiotherapy Treatment Planning, Dublin, Ireland: 6-10 Mar 2005;

• IAEA Regional Training Course on Current Trends in the Radiation Oncology of Lung Cancer, Izmir, Turkey: January 23-27, 2006;

• IAEA Regional Training Course on Current Trends in the Radiation Oncology of Head and Neck Cancer, Budapest, Hungary: June 6-10, 2006.

• ESGO seminar in Gynaecological Oncology, Yerevan, Armenia, 10-11, Sept. 2009.

• AAF/OMI Salzburg Weill Cornell /MSKCC Seminar in Oncology, Salzburg, Austria, 27 Sept - 2 Oct 2009.

• ESTRO training course on “Evidence Based Radiation Oncology: a clinical refresher with a methodological basis”, Estoril, Portugal, 3-8 Oct, 2010

• AAF/OMI Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Oncology Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 13-19 Feb, 2011

• Seminar of the International School of Telemedicine and eHealth, Yerevan, Armenia, 15-16 Oct, 2011

• Georgia Institute of Technology’s 9-week Online Teaching Course on Health Informatics in the Cloud, Jan -Apr, 2013 (Coursera.org)

• 2nd Eastern European Elekta User Meeting", Moscow, Russia, 4-6 Oct, 2013

• Challenges in Oncology, Franco-Armenian conference, Yerevan, Armenia, 25-28 Apr, 2013,

• ESTRO 33th annual congress, Vienna, Austria, 4-8 Apr, 2014,

• ASCO/AAHO 1st Multidisciplinary Cancer Management Course, Yerevan, Armenia, 12-15 May, 2014

• Autumn Conference on Breast Cancer, Yerevan, Armenia, 20 Oct, 2014,

• 1st German-Armenian Telemedicine and eHealth Workshop (Faculty member), RAU, Yerevan, Armenia, 17-20 Nov, 2014

• IAEA Workshop on Target Volume Definition and Contouring for Radiotherapy, Vienna, Austria, 24 - 26 Jun, 2015

• International Cancer Conference and Masterclass “CONQUERING CANCER WITH A SMILE”, YSMU, Yerevan, Armenia, 18-19․05.2016

• Melanoma day in Armenia, Educational workshop, Yerevan, Armenia, 30 May, 2016

• International GCP online course on PharmaLessons, Feb 2017

• Surgical treatment of lung cancer: Modern management, International Symposium, 1-2 Aug, 2017

• ESMIT Autumn School, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1-4 Sept, 2017

• 5th Eastern European Elekta User Meeting", Tbilisi, Georgia, 26 -28 Oct 2018

• IAEA Regional Workshop on Risk Assessment in Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Vienna, Austria, 14-19 Jan, 2019

Numerous CPD sessions on Medscape.com, e-eso.net, nccn.org etc.

 

Publications

Clinical Oncology textbook (in armenian), co-autor, 2018

More than 45 publications in local and international periodicals

 

Computer skills

Common office software, EndNote, SPSS, Internet & web-based activities (advanced user); HTML, CSS programming (basic knowledge)

 

Language proficiency

Fluent in Armenian (native), Russian, English.

Basic knowledge of German

 

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