HOVHANNISYAN ASHOT NIKOLAY

Research institute of cardiology named after Levon Hovhannisyan 5 Paruyr Sevak St, Yerevan, Армения

HOVHANNISYAN ASHOT  NIKOLAY (born in 1960, in Yerevan, in a family of doctors), is  cardiologist - arrhythmologist ,  doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, established  in 2011 and currently leads  the department of Interventional Cardiology, Clinical Electrophysiology and Radiological Diagnostics at the Research Institute of Cardiology. 

 Graduated from Pushkin School in 1977, Yerevan State Medical Institute in 1984,  completed  his residency in General Medicine in 1985.  

From 1985 to 1991 he worked as a doctor-cardiologist at the  central district's hospital of  Abovyan  at the same time making scientific work as  a researcher  at the Research Institute of Cardiology . 

 In 1989 he defended his PhD thesis on  "The hypertrophic  correlation 's  research on the left ventricular function of patients having  arterial hypertension”. In 1991  he worked as a researcher in the newly established department  of heart 's rhythms disorders at the Research Institute of Cardiology. 

He is the first to apply the implantation of the  devices driving rhythms using the method of electrodes 

Since 1996 has made the implantation of the  devices driving heart 's rhythms 

In 2011 he received the qualification of the European Association of Cardiologists 

Since 2005 he has led the Laboratory of  Radionuclides Diagnostic at the Research Institute of Cardiology . 

In 2006  he defended his doctoral thesis on “The assessment of the state of health of Armenia 's citizens participating in the liquidation  of the Chernobyl 's  disaster 's consequences and the development of preventive actions ". 

He wrote  more than  60 methodical manuals.