Nino Abesadze

MD, PhD

Nino Abesadze – MD, PhD, Doctor of Public Health, has 15 years of work experience in a managerial position, 10 years of experience in pedagogy, she holds state certificates in the following specialties: laboratory medicine, hematology, pediatrics, transfusiology.

She worked as State Programs Coordinator R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research National Center for Disease Control & Public Health, as the Medical Director of JSC Megalab, Director of the Laboratory and Transfusion Department at the Medical Corporation Evex, has completed work practice in Germany (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf; Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln), training courses in healthcare management (Georgian State Medical Academy, University of Georgia, Bank of Georgia University), is a member of the Board of the Georgian Association of Laboratory Medicine, a member of the IFCC Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines (TF-LMPG) Working Group, an auditor of the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System. In 2015- 2016, she was a member of the working group under the Ministry of Health of Georgia, according to which the regulations for the provision of laboratory services were approved. During the pandemic in 2020, she was a member of the Laboratory Working Group under the Ministry of Health of Georgia, according to which the algorithm for laboratory diagnostics of Covid-19 was approved. She is a member of the Working Group on Strengthening the Blood Safety System in Georgia of the EU Twinning Project (No. GE 18 ENI HE 01 19), within the framework of which amendments to the Law on Blood Donation, by-laws and other regulatory documentation were developed. She is the author of the professional retraining program “Laboratory Medical Technical Assistant” implemented at Sukhumi State University.

She is engaged in pedagogical activities, is a visiting lecturer at Batumi International University, as well as a lecturer at Sukhumi State University. The list of projects implemented under her leadership includes: implementation of quality management systems (ISO 9001) in the laboratories of Evex clinics, centralization of laboratory services, accreditation of medical laboratories according to the international standard ISO-15189, Megalab, stem cell transplantation (at the Caucasus Medical Center), and centralized blood center VIAN (blood bank).

Work Experience :

From 04/2024 to present Head of the Laboratory of the Oncology Scientific Research Center
From 02/2024 to01/2026 Coordinator of State Programs of the Lugar Center for Public Health Research National Center for Disease Control & Public Health
From 04/2023 to 04/2024 Quality Manager of the Oncology Scientific Research Center
From 07/2023 to 12/2023 JSC Vian, Strategic Projects Manager
From 10/2020 to 07/2023 JSC Evex-Hospitals – Commercial Manager of Blood Banks and Laboratory Services
From 10/2022 to 12/2023 Head of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Project at the Caucasus Medical Center
From 05/2021 to 12/2023 JSC Evex-Hospitals-Blood Center Project Manager
From 03/2021 to 04/2023 Consultant at Mardaleishvili Medical Center
From 01/2019 to 10/2020 Medical Director of JSC Megalab
From 11/2013 to 01/2019 Director of the Laboratory and Blood Transfusion Department of the Medical Corporation Evex
From 11/2012 to 11/2013 – Head of the Laboratory Department of JSC “My Family Clinic”
From 11/2012 to 11/2015 – Consultant of LLC “Central Laboratory”
From 02/2012 to 11/2012 Head of the Imereti Referral Laboratory of JSC “My Family Clinic”
From 02/2006 to 11/2012 Head of the Production and Clinical Transfusiology Service at the Z. Tskhakaia West Georgia Interventional Medicine Center, LLC
From 02/2006 to 02/2012, Head of the Production and Clinical Transfusiology Service and Central Laboratory at the Acad. Z. Tskhakaia West Georgia Interventional Medicine Center, LLC
From 11/2000 to 01/2006, Head of Production Transfusiology, Quality Control, Financial and Statistical Monitoring of Laboratory Work at the Kutaisi Regional Blood Bank LLC
From 05/2003 to 01/2004, Pediatrician at the Medical Surveillance Center
From 09/1999 to 10/2000, Methodist of the Educational Methodological Department of the Institute of Pathology of the Tbilisi State Medical University
From 09/1996 to 08/1997, Intern at the Kutaisi Children’s Regional Hospital

Pedagogical experience:

From 03/1998 to 05/1999, a teacher of pediatrics at Kutaisi Medical College “Medea 21”
From 02/2010 to 10/2015, a local supervisor of the “Laboratory Medicine” module of the postgraduate medical education residency program of Tbilisi State Medical University
From 03/2016 to 12/2019, a local supervisor of the “Laboratory Medicine” module of the postgraduate medical education residency program of JSC Medical Corporation Evex
From 01/2018 to 02/2018, a lecturer at Tvildiani Nursing College
From 2019 to 2022, a lecturer at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, a certification program “Healthcare Policy and Administration”
From 2021 to present – Sukhumi State University Professional Retraining Program “Laboratory Medical Technical Assistant” Lecturer in Laboratory Medicine
From 2023 to present – Batumi International University , Lecturer in Laboratory Medicine

Education :

Tbilisi State Medical University, Faculty of Pediatrics ( 1995)
Kutaisi Children’s Interregional Hospital Internship Course in Pediatrics ( 1996/1997)
Post-graduate qualification in the specialty of hospital transfusion service at the State Medical Academy (01/11-30/12-2000)
Post-graduate training cycle in laboratory diagnostics at the State Medical Academy, qualification in the specialty of a doctor-laboratory assistant (04/01-05/05-2001)
Medical firm “Test-Doctors’ House” – Doctor-Laboratory Assistant Training Program 12/2020, Tbilisi, Georgia
Doctor-/Laboratory Assistant Qualification at the Center for AIDS and Clinical Immunology (14- 25/05-2001)
Post-graduate qualification in pediatrics at the State Medical Academy (23/01-05/04-2002)
Internship in pediatrics at the Children and Adolescent Clinic in the Federal Republic of Germany (10/01-10/02-2003)
Internship at the University Clinic of Eppendorf-Hamburg in the Federal Republic of Germany, which included the Onco-Hematology Inpatient and Outpatient Clinic, the Institute of Transfusion Medicine, and the Bone Marrow Transplantation Center (01/08/2004—31/07/2005)
Post-graduate course in continuing medical education at the State Medical Academy “Healthcare Service Management AIHA Program” within the framework of” (09/11-23/12-2006)
University of Georgia Study Program “Healthcare Administration and Insurance” (10-12/2011)
Bank of Georgia University General Management Course-09/2016-02/2017 Tbilisi, Georgia
University of Georgia, School of Health Sciences Doctoral Program 2018-2021
PhD Degree in of Public Health 01. 2022

Training, Conference:

Hemophilia symposium 2004, 12-13/11/2004. Hamburg, Germany
11thEuropean Haemovigilance Seminar, 25-27/02/2009, Rome, Italy
14thcongress European Society for Organ Transplantation, 30/08-02/09/2009,Paris, France
15th congress of EHA ( European Hematology Association) 10-13/06/2010, Barcelona, Spain
Global Healing Modern medicine for the developing world- Transfuzion Medicine Symposium, 30/09-01/10/2010, Tbilisi, Georgia
33thWorld Congress of the international Society of Hematology, 10-13/10/2010, Jerusalem, Israel
21th International Congress of Clinical Chemistry an Laboratory Medicine, 15-19/05/2011, Berlin, Germany
17th Congress of EHA ( European Hematology Association) 14-17/06/2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
22nd International Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 22-26/06/2014, Istanbul, Turkey
Cempra Pharmaceutical Solitaire-IV investigator meeting for protocol CE01-301, 11- 12/07/2014, Istanbul, Turkey
2nd Health International Conference, GIMPHA, 13-14/06/2015, Tbilisi, Georgia
Training Program for Biosafety Officers and Laboratory Workers, EU/UNICRI Project B1; 17- 28/08/2015, Tbilisi, Georgia
Training “Changes in standard ISO 9001:2015, 19/10/2015, Tbilisi, Georgia
Global Healing Modern Medicine for the Developing World, 12/11/2015, Tbilisi, Georgia
1stSiemens healthcare Scientific days, 25-27/04/2016, Vienna, Austria
Regional Laboratory Diagnosis Workshop, World Federation of Hemophilia, 16-18/01/2017, Tbilisi, Georgia
Labquality Days 2017 Congress, 9-10/02/2017, Helsinki, Finland
22nd IFCC-EFLM European Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 12/06/2017, Athens, Grecee
„Lean and Six sigma Fundamentals”- 5 day course, 2-30/03/2018,Tbilisi, Georgia
1st Intercontinental all free online Conference – Deer Leap towards Main Goal of Health Sciences Development and Progress: Health, Well-being and Wellness of Society 24- 27/07/2020, Tbilisi, Georgia
Good Clinical Practice, Nida Clinical Trials Network, 27/07/2020, Tbilisi, Georgia
Training course ISO 15189:2022 – Requirements for quality and competence 07-09/06/2021, Tbilisi, Georgia
6th EFLM Conference on Preanalytical Phase on 15-18 March 2022, online
33rd Regional ISBT Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 17-21 2023
PTB Follow-up Workshop on special issues of ISO 15189:2022 (medical laboratories), 12 April 2024;
38th International Congress of the ISBT Barcelona, Spain, June 23 – 27, 2024

Articles:

Distribution and impact of Erythrocyte Lewis-system antigens on patients with ischemic heart diseases in the west of Georgia; Georgian Medical News #6, June, 2012
History of cancer registration in the World and in Georgia, Caucasus Journal of Health Sciences and Public Health, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2018
Modern concept of quality of life research in Oncology // European Journal of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Premier Publishing s.r.o. Vienna. №3, 2021, – Pp. 23-27. ISSN 2310-5674

Certificates :

pediatrics: Iბ45 #27979
Transfusiology: Iბ 43 #23458
Laboratory Medicine: Iბ 63 #25262
Hematology: IVბ 56 #001771 Public Health (PhD): UG #000037

Computer Skills and Languages:

Microsoft -Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Georgian-native; Russian-good; German-good; English-good.