WORK EXPERIENCE
2008-present – Yerevan State Medical University, Department of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Professor, “Nork” Infectious Clinical Hospital, Physician.
2011-2013 – Ministry of Defense of Republic of Armenia, Army Service, Chief of Infectious Diseases Unit of Military Hospital, Senior Lieutenant of Military Medical Service.
2007-2008 – Yerevan State Medical University, Department of Infectious Diseases, Senior Laboratory Assistant, “Armenicum” Clinical Center.
TRAININGS
June 05-09, 2017 – Rome, Italy: Participation in “One Health Surveillance for Brucellosis in Armenia” project in support of the DTRA CBEP Program. Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Regioni Lazio e Toscana.
November 28-30, 2016 – Stockholm, Sweden: European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) 2016, ECDC, EPIET, TEPHINET, Certificate of attendance.
November 4-7, 2016 – Vienna, Austria: Participated in “International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED) 2016”, International Society for Infectious Diseases, Certificate of attendance.
2014 – 2016 – Tbilisi, Georgia: Successfully completed two-year comprehensive postgraduate training program of the “South Caucasus Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (SC/FELTP)” in Applied Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Management, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), Georgia National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), Certificate of Graduation.
August 8-10, 2015 – Tbilisi, Georgia: “Successfully completed training in the framework of National population-based serosurvey of prevalence of Hepatitis C in Georgia”, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Georgian National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), Certificate.
June 2-5, 2015 – Yerevan, Armenia: “Armenia Clinician Training of Trainers in Especially Dangerous Pathogens”, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Armenia Ministry of Health, United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Certificate.
March 1-25, 2011 – Vienna, Austria: “Observership in Laboratory Medicine with Infectious Diseases in Krankenhaus Hietzing”, Open Medical Institute, American Austrian Foundation, Certificate.
March 15, 2011 – Vienna, Austria: “Clinical Research at a Glance”, Vienna School of Clinical Research, Certificate.
March 10-12, 2010 – Tallinn, Estonia: “The Activate Clinical Skills Series Expert Training in HIV for European Clinicians”, ACTIVATE (capACity building and Training in hIV/Aids Treatment and management across Europe), EuroCoord, Certificate.
October 8-10, 2009 – Minsk, Belarus: “Clinical Skills Series Expert Training in HIV for Clinicians”, NEAT (European AIDS Treatment Network), ACTIVATE (capACity building and Training in HIV/AIDS Treatment and management across Europe), Certificate.
June 7-12, 2009 – Salzburg, Austria: “Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminar in Infectious Diseases”, Weill Cornell Medical College, Medical University of Vienna, Certificate.
October 25, 2007 – Yerevan, Armenia: Workshop organized by ESCMID (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), Yerevan State Medical University.
May 1-31, 2007 – Buenos Aires, Argentina: “One month rotation training in ambulatory infectious diseases, within the exchange training program with FIDEC (Fighting Infectious Diseases in Emerging Countries) for Armenia”.
April 25-27, 2007 – Moscow, Russian Federation: “IX Meeting of All-Russian Scientific-Practical Society of Epidemiologists, Microbiologists and Parasitologists”.
June 19-23, 2006 – Yerevan, Armenia: “Planning implementation and evaluation malaria control programme”, Workshop WHO/EURO-Armenian National Institute of Health-Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia, Certificate.
August 1-21, 2005 – Alexandria, Egypt: “Alexandria Summer School of Tropical Medicine”, Certificate.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
April 18-22, 2016 – Armenia: KAP Survey “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Hepatitis B and C among health care workers in Armenia”, Armenian National Center for Diseases Control (NCDC), South Caucasus Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (SC FELTP), Supervisor.
March 13-24, 2016 – Georgia: Participation in “Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance Survey”, Georgia National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), South Caucasus Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (SC FELTP), Interviewer.
August 11-20, 2015 – Georgia: Participation in population-based serosurvey of prevalence and risk factors for Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B virus infection plus non-communicable disease in Georgia, Georgia Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Affairs, Georgia National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Interviewer.
June-October, 2007 – Participation in Measles and Rubella eradication campaign in Armenia.
May 2007 – Completion of one-month rotation period in Buenos Aires, Argentina at FUNCEI (Fundacion Centro Estudios Infectologicos), Certificate.
July 2006 – National Immunization Survey, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia, WHO, UNICEF, Interviewer.
2006 – 2010 – BTEP No.94/ISTC No.A-1331 Partner Project: Enhanced epidemiologic and laboratory diagnostic capacity and applied research for the control of botulinum intoxication in Armenia, U.S. CDC / Ministry of Health RA, Investigator, Interviewer.
LANGUAGES
Armenian, English, Russian.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2013 – Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia. Diploma for the faithful performance of duties and exemplary behavior.
2012 – Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia. Diploma for the faithful performance of duties and exemplary behavior.
2007 – Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia. Winner in the poster session during IV Young Medics` International Conference. Diploma.
2006 – Yerevan State Medical University, Diploma of 3-rd prize for scientific research in history of Medical Education in Armenia.
2005 – Yerevan State Medical University, Silver Medal and Diploma for active participation in scientific research and public activity.
2004 – Yerevan State Medical University, Winner, Diploma of 1-st prize for scientific research in epidemiology of Botulism in Armenia.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2011-present – European Public Health Association, Member.
2010-present – All-Russian National Scientific Society of Infectologists, Member.
2010-present – Armenian Association of Parasitologists, Member.
2008-2011 – Yerevan State Medical University, Residents’ Council, Member.
2007-2011 – Yerevan State Medical University, Young Scientists’ Committee, Member
2000- present – Armenian Public Health Association, Member.
2004-2005 – Member of the board, “Inpharm” journal
2003-2006 – Yerevan State Medical University, Students’ Scientific Society, Member.
Author of 40 publications in Armenian, English and Russian (abstract, publication, poster).
Personal data
Married, has 1 daughter.
Annex 1
PUBLICATIONS
(Last 5 years)
Mher Davidyants, Eric Tongren, Marika Geleishvili, Artavazd Vanyan. Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on Hepatitis B and C among health care workers, Armenia, 2016. ESCAIDE 2016, Stockholm, Sweden, November 28-30, 2016. ESCAIDE abstract book, p.77 (in English).
Mher Davidyants, Hripsime Apresyan, Lusine Atoyan, Vigen Asoyan, Anahit Mkrtchyan, Alvard Hovhannisyan. Retrospective clinical epidemiological characteristics of patients with Tularemia hospitalized in “Nork” infectious clinical hospital, 2000-2015, Yerevan, Armenia. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 53, pp. 75-76 (in English). 2016.
Hripsime Apresyan, Mher Davidyants, Lusine Atoyan, Vigen Asoyan, Anahit Mkrtchyan, Alvard Hovhannisyan. The most common epidemiological, clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with Anthrax in Armenia. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 53, p. 72 (in English). 2016.
“Especially Dangerous Pathogens”. Manual for infectious diseases doctors. Co-author. Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan 2016, 150 p.
Davidyants V.A., Meymaryan M.A., Davidyants M.V. Epidemiological peculiarities of Cryptosporidiasis in Armenia. “Prophylaxis of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Tajikistan”. Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2013. Materials of annual scientific-practical conference, pp. 45-50. Ministry of Health of Republic of Tajikistan, Scientific-Research Institute of Preventive Medicine of the Republic of Tajikistan (in Russian).