Active Member of the Georgian Academy of Ecological Sciences;
Active Member of the Georgian Academy of Preventive Medicine Sciences;
Member of the Scientific Council of the Tbilisi State Medical University (1995-2005);
Member of the Title Awarding Board of Professors at the Tbilisi State Medical University (2000-2005);
Member of Academic Board of TSMU (since 2006);
Member of the Council of Public Health Faculty of TSMU (since 1990);
Academic Secretary of the Dissertational Council m 14.1 (Hygiene) (1996-2000);
Member of the Council of Awarding the Scientific Degrees of Tbilisi State Medical University (Hygiene – 14.00.07) (2001-2005);
Member of the Council of Awarding the Scientific Degrees of the Scientific Centre of Radiobiology and Radiation Ecology (Radiobiology - 03.00.01; Ecology – 03.00.16) (2001-2005);
Member of the Council of Postgraduate Medical Education (2002-03);
Member of the Comission on acreditation of the continuous medical education programs (2002-03);
Vice-presidente of Association of Georgian Hygienists;
Member of the Board of the Association of Georgian Physicians;
Member of the Union of Radioecologists of Georgia (Deputy Head) (since 2002);
Member of the NGO – Child Rights Protection Association “Claritas XXI” (since 1998);
Coordinator of the State Program “Radiation” (1997-2004);
Affiliated Faculty of the Department of Health Administration and Human Resources (University of Scranton, 2000-2011. Scranton, PA);
Editor-in-chief of the Journal - ,,Prevention, Culture, Communication” (2001-03);
Member of the Editorial Board of the ”Journal of Health Sciences Management and Public Health” (National Health Management Center of Georgia, The University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA);
Member of the Editorial Board – Jornal “Sakartvelos Sameditsino Moambe” (Medical Journal of Georgia);
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Annals of Biomedical Research and Education” (since 2006);
Honorary Member of the Professional Women’s Advisory Board (American Biographical Institute);
Biography is included in the Premier Edition of Great Women of the 21st Century (2006).
TITLE - M.D. (Diploma G-I, N 171116), Ph.D. (Diploma N 000436), Professor (Diploma GA N 0000170), Head of the Department of Health Promotion (Preventive Medicine) of Tbilisi State Medical University. Full Professor.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION – High, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
1973-1979 – Student of Tbilisi State Medical Institute
1980-1983 – Post-graduate studentship at the Oncology Scientific Center of Ministry of Health of USSR (Moscow)
Trainings:
“National Regulatory Infrastructure for Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources”, Nicosia, Cyprus (1997);
“Sustainability of and Co-operation between Nuclear Research Centres of the Black Sea Region in the Area of Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Technology” - Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Ankara, Turkey (2001);
“Medical Education for Radiation Emergencies Preparedness”, Tbilisi, Georgia (organized by IAEA) (2002);
“Procedures for Medical Response During Radiation Emergency”, Tbilisi, Georgia (organized by IAEA) (2002).
Workshops:
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (CRDF travel grant, 1996);
“Georgian Health Project” (Ministry of Health/World Bank – 1997);
“Implementation of the Medical Exposure Directive (97/43/Euratom)”, Madrid, Spain (1998);
WHO Regional Office for Europe – “Georgian National Healthcare Policy”, Copenhagen, Denmark (1999);
Health Care Research and Professional Study Tour (University of Scranton, USA – 2001);
“Effect of Ionizing Radiation on Ecological Situation of Countries from Caucasian Region and Caspian Sea Basin”. Int. Workshop, Azerbaijan, Baku (2002);
“Prevention, Detection and Response to Nuclear and Radiological Threat”. NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ISTC travel grant). Armenia, Yerevan (2007);
Italian-Georgian Workshop-Meeting “Medical Education and Research: No Border”, Tbilisi, Georgia (2007).
Conferences:
1997 – International Conference “Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation: Biological Effects and Regulatory Control”. Seville, Spain.
1998 – 2nd Intern. Conf. on Remote Medical Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident. Kiev, Ukraine.
2001 – Annual Partnership Conference – “Primary and Community-based Healthcare Solutions” (AIHA, USAID), Washington, DC, USA.
2001 – Black-Sea Countries III International Conference ,,Advances of Clinical and Theoretical Medicine and Biology”. Tskhaltubo, Georgia.
2001 – 1st National Conference “NEHAP of Georgia”. Tbilisi, Georgia.
2002 – World Congress on Immunopathology. Singapore.
2005 – “Preventive Medicine in the XXI Century”, Borjomi, Georgia.
2006 – “Preventive Medicine in the XXI Century”, Batumi, Georgia.
2007 – South Caucasus Countries 4th Congress of oncologists. Tbilisi, Georgia.
EXPERIENCE
1983-1984 - Assistant of the chair of Pat. anatomy of Tbilisi State Medical Institute.
1984-1986 - Doctor of the Avtomatizied research of peripherial blood and immunological status laboratory of the Georgian National Cancer Center.
1986-1987 – Head of Radioisotope Diagnostic Laboratory, Tbilisi Endocrinology Dispensary.
1987-1991 - Assistant of the chair of Hygiene of Tbilisi State Medical Institute.
1991-1994 - Senior Lecturer of the Chair of Hygiene of Tbilisi State Medical University.
1994-1996 - Associate Professor of the Chair of Hygiene of Tbilisi State Medical University.
1996-2005 - Head of the Chair of Preventive Medicine of Tbilisi State Medical University.
2005-06 - Full Professor of Public Health Chair of Tbilisi State Medical University.
since 2006 – Head of the Department of Health Promotion (Preventive Medicine) of Tbilisi State Medical University. Full Professor.
PUBLICATIONS - 116 scientific articles. Among them the Text-books for the students of Medical Universities: Hygiene (Preventive Medicine), 1998; Occupational Hygiene of Drugstore and Pharmaceutical Industry, 2006; Radiation Hygiene, 2007; Monograph – Cancer Prevention and Early Detection, 2006; Collection of Tests for the students of Medical Universities, 2003; numerous legislation documents; Georgian National Healthcare Policy (Chapter – “Safety Environment”); NEHAP of Georgia – “Environment and health”.
SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISOR of the 4-candidate dissertation.
Knowledge of the computer programs: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Internet Explorer.
