Health Challenges: Issues and Successes

Program

16:30 – Welcoming remarks: School of Public Health Dean Varduhi Petrosyan

16:35 – Ceremony of signing Memorandum of Understanding: Minister of Health Armen Muradyan and AUA President Armen Der Kiureghian

16:45 – Public Seminar: Minister of Health Professor Armen Muradyan

About the speaker

During the public seminar the Minister of Health Armen Muradyan will speak about challenges the Armenian health system is facing today and will specifically discuss problematic issues and success stories.

Before his appointment as the Minister of Health, Professor Muradyan was the Executive Director of Izmirlian Medical Center. In 2008-2012, he was the first deputy director of the National Oncology Center after Fanarjyan. In 2003-2011, he was a Professor and the founding chair of the Urology Department at Yerevan State Medical University. In 2001-2008, Professor Muradyan worked and later led the Urology Clinic of Armenia Medical Center. He also held the positions of the Advisor to the Minister of Health (2004-2006), the Chief Urologist of Armenia (2006-2014), and the President of the Association of Armenian Urologists (2009-2013).

Professor Muradyan earned Medical Doctor (MD) degree in 1995, finished the medical residency program in urology in 1998, and completed post-graduate education (aspirantura) in 2000 at Yerevan State Medical University. He became a Doctor of Medical Sciences in 2005. Professor Muradyan completed post-graduate studies in the American University of Armenia School of Healthcare Management and Organization and InDevelop Uppsala AB in Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Muradyan authored two monographs and more than 70 scientific works.

This event is in Armenian with simultaneous translation into English.