Endocrinologist

Professional Education / Postgraduate Trainings

 2023 – Working visit, United Kingdom (Queen’s University/City Hospital, Belfast; Royal Hospital, Liverpool)

2015 – Postgraduate Education Course, Tirana, Albania

2013 – Diabetes Education Study Group (DESG), Greece

2010–2011 – Diabetes Education Study Group (DESG), Portuga

2010 – Postgraduate education course, Kyiv, Ukraine

2008–2009 – Diabetes Education Study Group (DESG), Spain

2002–2005 – Diabetes Education Study Group (DESG), Italy

2003 – Postgraduate education course, Kaunas, Lithuania

1991–1997 – Tbilisi State Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine

Memberships and Publications

Chairperson, Georgian Association for Chronic Disease Education

Member, Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance, Georgia

Member, European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

Board Member, Diabetes Education Study Group (DESG)

National Representative in the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Eye Complications (EAsDEC)

Author of over 150 scientific publications and 2 monographs

Co-founder and Executive Secretary of the journal “Diabetes and Health”

Member of the working groups for the following national clinical protocols:

Diagnosis and Management of Type 1 Diabetes

Management of Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Infection

Diagnosis and Management of Gestational Diabetes

Work Experience

2023 – Present – LTD Interclinic, Endocrinologist

2020 – Present – Medical Director of the Projects, World Diabetes Foundation

2009 – Present – Professor, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, David Tvildiani Medical University

2017–2022 – Tbilisi Heart Center, Endocrinologist; Head of Clinical Trial Department

2017–2019 – Israeli-Georgian Multiprofile Clinic “Healthycore”, Endocrinologist

1998–2017 – National Center for Diabetes Research, Endocrinologist