Professor Zurab Chkhaidze

• 1976-1982 – Kuban (Krasnodar) State Medical Institute, specialty – surgery, the doctor.
• 1993 – Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Institute of Advanced Training of Doctors (clinical residency, postgraduate study). Specialty – surgery, candidate of medical sciences.
• 2000 – Tbilisi Institute of Postgraduate Education of Doctors. Specialty – surgery, doctor of medical sciences.

• 1982-1983 – Penza Regional Clinical Hospital. Internship doctor, Department of Surgery.
• 1983-1986 – Penza region – Penza Regional Hospital. Head of the department of surgery, head physician.
• 1987-1994 – Department of Surgery No. 2 of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Institute of Advanced Training of Doctors. Resident, graduate student.
• 1995-1996 – Ministry of Health of Georgia. Leading specialist, Ministry of Health.
• 1996-2003 – Central Military Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia. Senior resident, department of surgery.
• 1997-2000 – Medical Institute “VITA”. Head of the department of surgery.
• 2000-2004 – Tbilisi State Medical University. Department of clinical specialties of extreme medicine of military-medical faculty. Head of the department, professor.
• 2003 – USA Army (21CSH US Army). Department of Surgery. Iraq.
• 2004 – Landshtul Regional Medical Centre (Germany) US Army Hospital. Department of Surgery. Germany
• 2004-2012 – Academician O. Gudushauri National Medical Center. Leading specialist, department of surgery.
• 2005-2011 – I. Javakhishvili TSU. The faculty of medicine. Deputy Dean for academic affairs of the faculty of medicine.
• Since 2006, I. Javakhishvili TSU. Department of surgical emergency and critical medicine of TSU faculty of medicine. Head of the department, full professor.
• October 2012 – March 2014 – Clinical director, Academician O. Gudushauri National Medical Center.
• Since 2014, Medical Center Vivamedi. Department of Surgery, leading specialist.
• Since 2015, Medical Center Vivamedi. Head of the educational and scientific direction.
• Since 2016, Clinic Vivamedi – clinical director, professor, the head of TSU Department of Surgical Emergency and Critical Medicine.

• More than 30 years, as a lecturer.

• 1997 – Corresponding Member of the Military Medical Academy of Georgia.
• 1999 – Member of the Georgian Association of Surgeons.
• 2000 – Member of the Georgian Association of Transplantologists.
• 2006 – Member of the editorial board of the magazine “Vestnik Endokrinologii”.
• 2008 – Member of the International Association of Hepato-Gastroenterology.
• 2008 – Member of the European Congress of Surgeons.
• 2009 – Member of the Council of the European Association of Emergency Surgery.
• 2014 – Head of Residency Programs of Postgraduate Education.

Participation in conferences and congresses:

• Participated in various local and international conferences and congresses.

Knowledge of languages:

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