Poghos Geyikyan

Head of Pediatric Urology and Surgery Department

Surgeon

PROFESSIONAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

30 years of successful experience in pediatric surgery and urology including
21 years of successful experience in general surgery and urology

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY ASSIGNMENTS:
2004 – Pediatric Surgeon and Urologist –Independent Charitable Foundation of Badri Patarkatsishvili – surgical operations for children, Tbilisi/Kutaisi, Georgia
2004 – Pediatric Surgeon/ Team Member – Medecins Du Monde/Cyprus – Surgeries of children with severe congenital malformations, Tbilisi, Georgia
1994 – Pediatric Surgery and Urology postgraduate training – Archbishop Macarios III Hospital – Pediatric Surgery and Urology Department, Nicosia, Cyprus

EXPERT INVOLVEMENT IN:

Neonatal surgeries;
Surgical treatment of anorectal malformations;
Surgical treatment of patients with congenital malformations of liver and portal system;
Kidney transplantation;
General , hepatobiliary surgery
Laparoscopic surgery

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
12/2010- Present Head of Pediatric Urology and Surgery Department – ARABKIR Medical Center & Institute of Child and Adolescent Health
Yerevan, Armenia

Administrative management of the department
Daily surgeries,
Outpatient counseling and treatment;
Night duties;
Emergency medical/surgical services
Member of kidney transplantation team

04/2006- 11/2010   Pediatric Surgeon – Pediatric Urology and Surgery Department – ARABKIR Medical Center & Institute of Child and Adolescent Health - Yerevan, Armenia
03/1997- 04/2006   Pediatric Urologist –“Ashtarak Polyclinics” State Enterprise - Ashtarak, Armenia
04/1998 - 03/2001   General Surgeon / Responsible doctor for Pediatric Urological cases - Surgical Department –“Ashtarak Hospital” Closed Joint Stock Company - Yerevan, Armenia
04/1996 - 04/1998   General Surgeon on Duty –Surgical Department, “Ashtarak Hospital” Closed Joint Stock Company - Ashtarak, Armenia

EDUCATION:

Postgraduate Residency in Pediatric Surgery, National Health Institute, Department of Pediatric Surgery Operating Nephrology, Yerevan, Armenia – 1993-1997
Clinical Residency in Pediatric Urology, Yerevan State Medical Institute, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Yerevan, Armenia – 1991 - 1993
Internship in Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital in Leninakan (Gumri) #2, Armenia – 1989 - 1990
Diploma in Pediatrics, Yerevan State Medical Institute, Yerevan, Armenia – 1983-1989
Attestat (Certificate) in Completion of Secondary Education, Daniel Varuzhan #89 Secondary School, Yerevan, Armenia

RESEARCH / PUBLICATIONS:
1.   “Assessment of results of different treatment modalities in children with portal hypertension” – 2008 (Autor) - Armenia
2.   “Management of Children with Portal Hypertention in Armenia ” – 2008 (Autor) - Armenia
3.   “Drainage of the Kidneys in Hydronephrosis Correction in Children” – 1996 (Co – autor) - Armenia
4.   “Drainage- free Correction of Hydronephrosis in Children” – 1996 (Co – autor) - Armenia
5.   “Vesico Ureteral Reflex in Childhood- Retrospective Studies”- 1995 (Co – autor) - Armenia
6.   “Use of Free Bladder Mucosal Graft in an one Stage Repair of Severe Hypospadias”, - 1995 (Co – autor) - Cyprus
7.   “Extra Skeletal Ewing Sarcoma in the Mesentery of a 12 years old boy”, - 1995 - (Co – autor) - Cyprus
8.   “Renal Cell Carcinoma in a 12 years old girl”, - 1995 - (Co – autor) - Cyprus
9.   ,Kidney Transplantation in Armenia: Comparison of Two Periods’ Resultsե, - (Co – autor) - Cyprus Medicine, Science and Education, Yerevan,Armenia, August 2014; №17: 64-74.
10.   ,Renal Graft Survival and Its Predictorsե, - (Co – autor) - Proceedings of Conference Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of The Foundation of University Clinical Hospital №1, Yerevan, Armenia 2014; 164-170.
11.   ,Surgical Complications after Renal Transplantation from Living Donorsե, - (Co – autor) - 4th International Medical Congress of Armenia, 2-4 July, 2015; Yerevan, Armenia, p. 412.
12.   ,Evaluation of Surgical Technique in Living Donor Kidney Transplantationե, - (Co – autor) - The New Armenian Medical Journal, Vol.10 (2016), No 2, p. 80-87. http://www.ysmu.am/images/stories/downloads/NAMJ/Int%20v10n2/Eng/12.pdf
13.   ,Fifteen Years of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Programme in Armeniaե, - (Co – autor) - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2017) 32 (suppl_3): iii723-iii724. 3-6 June 2017, Madrid, Spain. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfx182.MP787

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS:
Department of Hepatobiliary, Transplantation and Endocrine Surgery of University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium; from 15.09.2010 to 20.11.2010: Clinical and Scientific Fellowship
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium; from 01.10.2010 to 18.11.2010: Practical course on abdominal ultrasound examinations; Doppler investigations of abdominal vessels and ultrasound assisted abdominal biopsy procedures.
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia, National Institute of Health, Full course of Laparascopic Surgery/ Endoscopic Surgery, - 2009
“Arabkir” Medical Complex, Training in Liver Diseases: Medical and Surgical Issues – 2009
International congress on emergency surgery, 2008.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Arab Republic of Egypt / National Research Center, Training on Surgical Science - 2007
ESPHAN / “Arabkir” Medical Complex, ESPGHAN Eastern European Summer School - 2007
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia, National Institute of Health, Contemporary Issues of Pediatric Surgery – Yerevan, Armenia - 2007
WHO / EURO, ADMTA joint seminar on Rational Use of Drugs – 1998
Ministry of Health of the RA / Fund for Armenian Relief , Joint Armenian – American Anesthesia - 1997
Ministry of Health of the RA / Association of Armenian Pediatricians and Anesthesiologists, Working conference - 1996
RA Ministry of Health, Contemporary Issues of Pediatric Surgery, - 1996
Mediterranean Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 21st Pan-Hellenic and Mediterranean Congress of Pediatric Surgery , - Limmasol, Cyprus - 1996
Ministry of Health of RA, International Society of Nephrology, Swiss Society of Nephrology, Symposium on Therapeutic Problems in Chronic Renal Failure , - 1995

Languages:

Armenian (Eastern/Western) – native

English - good

Russian – fluent

MERRITAL STATUS

merried, has two sons.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS, ETC.:
Member of Armenian Pediatric Association

REFERENCES:
Professor Ara Babloyan, Chair of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Yerevan State Medical University, Scientific Director of ”Arabkir” MC&ICAH, Mamikonyants – 30, Yerevan, Armenia
Tel: + 374 10 236883 ext. 11 99; Fax: + 374 10 284170; E-mail – [email protected]
Professor Ashot Sarkissian, Chair of Pediatrics and Pediatric surgery, National Health Institute of Republic of Armenia, Mamikonyants – 30, Yerevan, Armenia
Tel: + 374 10 236883 ext.11 27; E-mail – [email protected]
Professor Eleni Theocharous, Member of European Parliament, Professor of Pediatric surgery
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

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