Professor Zurab Pagava

Education and Qualifications:

• 1967 – 1973 – State Medical University, Tbilisi (General Medicine);
• 1978 – 1983 – Ph.D. program. Miasnikov Institute of Cardiology. Moscow. Russian Federation (Ph.D.);
• 1982 – Radiology. Moscow. Russian Federation.

Certification/Medical License:

• 2001 – Cardiology, Certificate N Ia09-03742;
• 2006 – Internal medicine Certificate N IIIa72-031757;
• 2006 – Sports medicine Certificate N IIa19-27590.

• 1978- 1982 – Department of Rehabilitation and Department of Radionuclide Diagnostic, Russian Institute of Cardiology- Postgraduate and specialist training. Moscow, Russia. Cardiologist;
• 1981-1981 – Medical Radiology and Roentgenology, Moscow, Russia.Radiologist;
• 1982-1988 – Institute of Cardiology, Department of Heart Failure. Senior Scientific Worker;
• 1988 – to present – The scientific research institute of cardiology; Cardiac Rehabilitation Department. Head of department;
• 1998 – to present – Medical Faculty Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Internal Disease. Associate Professor;
• 2005 – to present – The Ltd. “Cito”, Medical Canter; The clinic of Arterial Hypertension and Cardio Vascular Disease. Cardiologist;
• 2008 – to present – Foundation for development of St. George`s cardiological hospital of the Patriarchate of all Georgia.  Scientific consultant;
• 2011-to present – Bokhua Cardiovascular Center. Head of Cardio-Pulmonology Department.

• 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes.
• 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension.
• 2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).
• 2014 ESC/ESA Guidelines on non-cardiac surgery: cardiovascular assessment and management.
• 2011 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: the Task Force for the management of dyslipidaemias of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS).
• ESC Reviewing of congressional abstracts: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Participation in conferences and congresses:

• Participated in various local and international conferences and congresses.
• Participated in conferences of the European Society of Cardiology and the USA.

Publications:

• Author of more than 150 publications, including 20 foreign impact journals.
• 8 Supervisor of doctoral dissertation.

Knowledge of languages:

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