Dr. Hovhannes Karpis Sarkavagyan - Thoracic surgeon, MD, PhD, Head of Department of Thoracic Surgery of the St. GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR HOSPITAL, associate Professor at Yerevan State Medical University named after Mkhitar Heratsi, volunteer-medical doctor during the Artsakh Liberation War, saved more than 100 lives of Armenian soldiers and freedom fighters.

Dr. Hovhannes Sarkavagyan was born in 1955, in Yerevan. He graduated from the Yerevan State Medical Institute in 1977, and continued his post graduation study in Leningrad (present day Saint Petersburg) and later in Boston University, USA in 1993 and 1995.

Dr. Sarkavagyan started his medical practice in 1978, in the central regional hospitals of Aragats and Ararat provinces. Since 1982 Dr. Sarkavagyan worked in the Emergency Hospital of Yerevan city.

Currently Dr. Hovhannes Karpis Sarkavagyan is the Head of Department of Thoracic Surgery of the St. GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR HOSPITAL. Meantime, Dr. Sarkavagyan teaches in the Yerevan State Medical University named after Mkhitar Heratsi as an associate professor in the Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, and in the National Institute of Health Named After Academician S. AVDALBEKYAN (NIH).  

Dr. Hovhannes Karpis Sarkavagyan was awarded with the 2nd degree Medal FOR SERVICES TO MOTHERLAND, in 2006, and MARSHAL BAGHRAMYAN medal in 2007.