Zaza Katsitadze MD. PhD.

• 1985 –1993 – Tbilisi State Medical Institute, Pediatric faculty.

• 1999 – 2003 –  Surgeon, The Jo-Ann Medical Center’s Pediatric Cardiac Surgery / Cardiology Clinic. Tbilisi, Georgia.
• 2003- 2008 – Surgeon, Cardiac Surgery Clinic “Open Heart” Tbilisi, Georgia.
• 2009- 2015 – N.Kipshidze’s Name Central University Clinic, Head Cardiac surgery, and cardiological department, Medical director.
• 2015 – up to date Head of cardiac surgery department of the Bokhua Memorial Cardiovascular Clinic.

• 1993 – 1995 – Department of abdominal surgery at the Tbilisi Republican hospital for children. Intern.
• 1995 – 1999 – Department of congenital heart diseases at the Bakulev’s cardiovascular surgery center, Moscow. Postgraduate research.
• 2001 – 2002 –  1^st  Surgical department, AKH, Linz, Austria, EACT’s fellowship in adult cardiac surgery.
• 2003 – HUG (University hospital of Geneva), Switzerland. Cardiac surgery department. Medical training.
• 2004 – Pediatric hospital of Poznan, Poland, Cardiac surgery department. Medical training.
• 2009 – Tallinn ( Estonia) Cardiac surgery department of a regional hospital. Of Pump CABG.
• 2009 – Zurich (Swiss), University Hospital, cardiac surgery department. Heart transplantation.

Participation in conferences and congresses:

• Since 2000, participated in various local and international conferences and congresses.

Publications:

• Author and co-author of 17 scientific articles and papers.

Knowledge of languages:

• Georgian – native
• Russian – fluent
• English – fluent