Dr. Ashot Marat Hakobyan – General Surgeon, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Surgery at ASHTARAK Medical Center, Armenia; awarded top prestigious medals from: the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements (in Medicine, 1990); and the Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi (YSMU), in 2006.

Education and scientific activities

Dr. Ashot Marat Hakobyan graduated from the Department of General Medicine of the Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, in 1982. From 1987 to 1990 he was a postgraduate student at All-Union Scientific Center of Surgery, Moscow, USSR. Dr. Ashot Hakobyan defended his PhD thesis in 1990. He is author 12 scientific publications and 4 know-how works in medicine.

Medical practice and relevant professional experience

Dr. Ashot Hakobyan started his medical practice in the Yerevan State N1 Emergency Surgery Hospital, as an intern, from 1982 to 1983. He continued medical practice, as a surgeon and emergency doctor, in the ASHTARAK Regional Central Hospital from 1983 to 1987. During the years of 1991-2008 Dr. Hakobyan worked as an Assistant Lecturer, till 1997, and later -Associate Professor, in the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of the YSMU. From 1997 to 2010 he worked in NAIRI Medical Center, as a surgeon. Since 2010, Dr. Ashot Hakobyan is the Head of the Department of Surgery at ASHTARAK Medical Center.