Professor and Chairman of the Council of the ENT Clinic, Tbilisi State Medical University
Education
1963-1969 Tbilisi State Medical Institute
1969-1970 Tbilisis Institute for Medical Training, specialty: otolaryngology
1975-1979 Postgraduate course at the Tbilisis Institute for Medical Training
1985 Ear Surgery Course, Moscow (two months)
1988 Medical Training Institute, ENT Clinic, Ear Surgery course, Budapest (8 months)
Professional experience
1969-1971 Emergency room doctor in the Bolnisi Regional Hospital
1971-1975,
1979-1987 Otolaryngologist in the Bolnisi Regional Hospital
1987-1993 Head Doctor of the ENT Department in the Marneuli City Hospital
1990, (summer) Observation of ENT surgeries at the Grand Junction Hospital, Colorado, with Dr. Denzel Hartshorn, at the Ann Arbor Medical School, University of Michigan, with Dr. Charles Krauze, and at the Irvine Medical School, University of California, with Dr. Roger Kramley
1992, (winter) Observation of ENT surgeries at the Ann Arbor Medical School, University of Michigan, with Dr. Charles Krauze, and at the Medical School of Chicago University, with Dr. Robert Bumsted; Training in endoscopic sinus surgery at the St. Lukeís Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, with Dr. Robert Bumsted
1993-1999 Professor and Vice-Chairman of the ENT Clinic of the Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia
Since 1999 Professor and Chairman of the ENT Clinic of the Tbilisi State Medical University
1998, (March) ENT Departament, Innsbruck University
1998, April-May ENT Departament: HNS Technical University of Dresden
2000, June-July ENT Departament, John Hopkins University
Advanced Degrees
October 1979
Moscow Scientific ENT Research Institute
Defense of Candidate dissertation:ìRehabilitation of Patients with Total Damage of the Tympanic System Using Columela and Screening Principlesî)
April 1983
Moscow Scientific ENT Research Institute
Defense of Ph.D. dissertation: ìUse of mechano-electrical acoustic prosthesis in cases of severe conductive hearing loss with open tympanic cavity)
Patents and tests
1979 Author of the patent The Method for Improving Hearing in Patients with Conductive Hearing Loss
1982 Author of the patent Wound Retractor for Middle Ear Surgery
1985 Author of the patent Method for Treating Chronic Inflammation of the Frontal Sinus
1987 Author of the patent Mirror for Middle Ear Surgery
From 1975 to 2002 he published 42 research articles in the Georgian Medical Journal, The Moscow VESTNIC of ENT and the Ukrainian Journal, 25 of which deal with the subject of rehabilitating patients with hearing loss and 10 with endoscopic sinus surgery.
More information on sinus headaches studies.
