Koba Shanava MD. PhD.

• Tbilisi Medical Institute, Faculty of Medicine
• 2011- General surgery specialty exam
• 2014- Oncosurgery specialty exam
• 2014- Transplantology specialty exam

• 2003-2005 – Lecturer-Assistant at the Department of Normal Anatomy, Tbilisi Medical Academy. 2006 – Senior Teacher at the Department of Normal Anatomy, Tbilisi Medical Academy.
• 2004 – Researcher at Tbilisi Medical Academy.
• 2007 – Lecturer-Assistant at the Department of Clinical anatomy, Tbilisi State Medical University. 2008-2010 – Researcher at the Department of Surgical Research and Techniques, Pecs. University, Faculty of Medicine ( Hungary).
• 2011- Lecturer-Assistant at the Department of Clinical anatomy at Tbilisi State Medical University.
• 2011- Head of the Clinical and Experimental Medicine Teaching and Research Center of Grigol Robakidze University. Tbilisi, Georgia.
• 2011- International Scholarship Program at the Department of Surgery, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, University of Munich, Germany.
• 2012- General Surgeon at N. Kipshidze`s Central University Clinic.
• 2012- Program Coordinator of Laparoscopic Surgery, at the Postgraduate Department of Tbilisi State Medical University (currently ).
• 2013- Master program at the Hôpital Paul-Brousse Center of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Paris, France. 2014- International Scholarship Program, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation.
• 2015- 2018 Head of Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation at “Aversi” Clinic.
• 2015 – International Scholarship Program, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, South Korea.
• 2016- International Scholarship Program, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, South Korea.
• 2016- International Scholarship Program, Mayo Clinic, Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, USA.
• 2017- International Scholarship Program, Yale Clinic, Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, USA.
• 2017- International Scholarship Program, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, South Korea.
• 2018- President of Georgian Society of Transplantologists (currently).
• 2018- Head of Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation at Innova Medical Center (currently).
• 2019 – Head of Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation at Iv. Bokeria Hospital.

• Since 2018 up today – President of Georgian Society of Transplantologists.
• Member of the International Liver Transplantation Society;
• Member of the Transplant Council of the Ministry of Health. Expert in the Field.

• 2001 – Diploma awarded by the Tbilisi State Medical Academy for active participation in scientific-research activities of the Department of Clinical Anatomy and Operative Surgery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
• 2008-2010- Scholarship of Medical University of Pecs (Hungary).

Participation in conferences and congresses:

• Since 2002, participated in various local and international conferences and congresses.

Publications:

• The author of 1 invention and 16 scientific works.

Knowledge of languages:

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