Armen Varzhapetyan, PHD, MD, Associate Professor

Endocrine surgeon, General surgeon, Head of endocrine surgery- Astghik Medical Center

Associate Professor- Department of general surgery, Yerevan State Medical University

Professional experience

2001-2015 Department ofgeneral surgery-Malatia Medical Center

2016 Department of general surgery, head of endocrine surgery-Astghik Medical Center

2002-2017 department of surgery YSMU after M. Heratsi

 Education and conferances

 1991-1997-Yerevan State Medical University, MD

1997-2000-Yerevan state medical university, department of general surgery, resident

 2003 Panarmenian international surgical congress, Yerevan, Armenia

2004 Training course “Laparoscopic suturing” /Imperial College London (The Lord professor Ara Darzi) and Center of Laparoscopic Surgery (Professor Armen Melikyan)/, Yerevan, Armenia

2010 Laparoscopic Surgery /Yerevan State Medical University/, Yerevan, Armenia

2010 International congress of young scientists, Yerevan, Armenia

2013 «Gerontology surgery», international congress, Armenian surgical association, Yerevan, Armenia

2015 Course “Surgery” Pirogov-Center, Moscow, Russia

2015 Course “Endocrine Surgery” North-west Center of endocrinology and endocrine surgery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2015 New approaches on diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of endocrinological diseases,  Kotayk, Armenia

2016 Advanced course in minimally invasive endocrine surgery, IRCAD, University of Strasbourg, France

2016 «Actual questions of gynecology and obstetrics» Scientific practical seminar. Natali Farm, Tsachkadzor, Armenia

2016 Training course in Laparoscopic surgery: physical and virtual simulation, MOH Jericho Laparoscopy center, Naples, Italy

2016 «Pain management, science behind», Symposium, Budapest, Hungary

2016 Russian II course of intraoperative neuromonitoring in thyroid and parathyroid surgery, course, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2016 «Women health» Scientific practical seminar.Jermuk, Armenia 

2017 International scientific school: modern technologies in endocrinology and endocrine surgery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2017 «68 Congrss of the Association of Polish surgeons», Krakov, Polland

2017 «40 Annual meeting of the european thyroid association» , Belgrade, Serbia

2017  «21 Annual meeting of the European Society of Surgery», Krakov, Polland

2017  «Intraoperative neuromonitoring during thyroid and parathyroid surgery» Scientific practical seminar. Yerevan, Armenia

2017 «Innovation and evidence to clinical practice, 1 scientific-educational conferance of Russian Association of Endocrine Surgeons», Moscow, Russia

2017 «Science Week» Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

2018 Ultrasound meet Cytopathology,, A Practical course on the management of Thyroid Disease, Mathrahaza, Hungary

2018 International scientific school: modern technologies in endocrinology and endocrine surgery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2018 Surgical treatment of Head & Neck cancer(Prof. J Shah(USA), Yerevan, Armenia

2018 41 Annual meeting of the european thyroid association», New Castle, United Kingtom

2018 «22 Annual meeting of the European Society of Surgery», Yerevan, Armenia

2018 «Emergency Abdominal Surgery:From practice to Guidelines», international meeting, Georgia, Tbilisi

2019«Innovation technoligies in abdominal surgery, endocrine surgery and urology», Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Author and co-author of more than 35 scientific publications, 3 student books and 4 innovations.

 Member of Armenian surgical association, member of European society of surgery, member of European thyroid association, member of British association of endocrine and thyroid surgeons,  member of Russian association of endocrine surgeons

 Married, has 2 daugthers