Erekle Ekvtimeishvili

Education

• On November 29, 2019, he was awarded the degree of Academic Doctor of Medicine.
• 2015-2018 — Doctoral student of Tbilisi State Medical University, specialty neurosurgery.
• 2007-2011 — Institute of Postgraduate Education and Continuous Professional Development; Medical specialty (neurosurgery) seeker.
• 2001-2006 — Tbilisi State Medical University, Faculty of Medicine (with honors).
• 1998-2001 — State Medical College at Tbilisi State Medical University (with honors).
• 1989-1998 — Author's School No. 6 in Tbilisi (with honors).

Professional experience

• From July 2020 — Assistant Professor of Tbilisi State Medical University.
• Since 2019 — Head of the Department of Endovascular Neurosurgery of the High Technology Medical Center.
• 2018-2020 — Visiting teacher of the Neurosurgery Department of Tbilisi State Medical University.
• 2018-2020 — Visiting teacher and module leader of the neurosurgery program of St. Michael the Archangel Clinical Hospital.
• Since 2011 - Neurosurgeon of High Technology Medical Center.
• 2007-2011 — specialty seeker at Tbilisi University Clinic Neurosurgery Center.
• 2015 — International training course in vascular neurosurgery, Turkey.
• 2013, 2010 and 2009 — qualification courses in the interventional radiology and neurosurgery departments of the Vienna University Clinic.
• 2009 — XIV World Congress of Neurological Surgery, Boston, USA — Codman/DePuy fellow.
• 2008 — Qualification Course in General Surgery, Kaufbeuren, Germany.
• 2004 — one-month internship at the neurosurgery department of the University Clinic of Jena.
• 2002 — Student internship at the Biochemical Laboratory of Hacettepe University Clinic, Ankara.
• Since 2011 - a member of the Georgian, European and American Associations of Neurosurgeons.

Publications and international activity

• Necessity of follow-up cerebral digital subtraction angiography after endovascular coiling or microsurgical clipping of ruptured intracranial aneurysms — report of two cases (2019).
• Our experience in treating various types of brain aneurysms by exclusion from the blood flow using flow diverter stents — WFNS International Conference “Vascular Experts”.
• Specifications of Intracranial Saccular Aneurysms Treated by Endovascular Approach Using Detachable Coils — Georgian Medical News, 2017.
• Prevention and treatment of ischemic complications developed on the background of endovascular treatment of cerebral arterial aneurysm — TSSU, 2016.
• Predicting the results of treatment of vascular spasm developed by subarachnoid hemorrhage — TSSU, 2016.
• Microvention Workshop — Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, 20.02.2020.
• German Stroke School — Frankfurt, 7–9.10.2019.
• 14th Congress of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology — Budapest, 2017.
• Modern Endovascular Methods in Treatment of CCFs — 9th Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress, Yerevan, 2015.
• Ruptured Vein of Galen Mixed Arteriovenous Malformation — Weill Cornell Seminar in Neurosurgery, 2015.
• Using Modern Endovascular Methods and Techniques in Treatment of Complex Aneurysms — Endovascular Neuroradiology, 2016.
• 8th Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress — Tbilisi, 2013; Endovascular One-step Treatment of Multiple Brain Aneurysms.
• 5th INWC Neurosurgical Congress — Chamonix, 2013; Endovascular treatment of intracranial AVM using Histoacryl.
• Using Modern Endovascular Methods and Techniques in Treatment of Complex Aneurysms and Post-haemorrhage Angiospasm — 2012.
• 7th Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress — Sofia, 2011.
• Endovascular Coil Embolization of Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms in Acute Period — Istanbul, 2009.
• 6th Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress — Outcome of Posttraumatic Brain Injuries, Istanbul, 2009.
• 6th Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress — Neurosurgery in Georgia, Istanbul, 2009.
• Opportunities and Perspectives of Endovascular Neurosurgery — Odessa, 2010.