WHISE-Armenia: Board Member

Karen Meliksetyan

Head of Bone Marrow Transplant department and Auto-transplant program of Hematology Center after Prof. R.H. Yeolyan of the Republic of Armenia

Academics:

2002-2005     Residency program of Hematology and Transfusion medicine at National Institute of Health after S. Avdalbekyan

1996-2002      Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsy, faculty of General Medicine

Experience:

2017-Present: Head of Bone Marrow Transplant department and Auto-transplant program of Hematology Center after Prof. R.H. Yeolyan of the Republic of Armenia

2016-Present: Head of Adults’ clinical hematology department  of Hematology Center after Prof. R.H. Yeolyan of the Republic of Armenia

2015-2016:       Head of clinical hematology department №2 of  Hematology Center after Prof. R.H. Yeolyan of the Republic of Armenia

2011-Present: Lecturer at Armenian Medical Institute

2007-2015:      Doctor-hematologist at clinical hematology department №2 of Hematology Center after Prof. R.H. Yeolyan of the Republic of Armenia

2005-2007:     Armenian Armed Force as a officer of Medical Service

2004-2005:    Doctor on duty at clinical hematology department №2 of  Hematology Center after Prof. R.H. Yeolyan of the Republic of Armenia

30.06.2016-29.06.2016   Internship on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Mentor-Prof. Nicolaus Kröger.

01.09.2015-14.10.2015   Internship on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic. Mentor-Dr. Antonyn Vitek.

02.02.2015-14.02.2015   Training course on Hematology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, organized by the TEMPUS-DECERPH program. Hosptal Universitario Morales Meseguer, University of Murcia, Spain. Mentor-Prof. Vicentw Vicente Garcia.

2014 – Present:    Co-Founder and official representative of «CML-Armenia Patients’ Group»

01.09.2014-19.09.2014    iCMLf clinical preceptorship at Federal Almazov Medical Research Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia. Mentor – Prof. Andrey Zaritskey

02.06.2014-30.06.2014  Observership in hematology and bone marrow transplantation. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX, USA. Mentor – Prof. Hagop Kantarjian.

01.12.2013-01.12.2016    coordinator of TEMPUS-DECERPH program of Hematology Center after Prof. R.H. Yeolyan of the Republic of Armenia

15.06.2013-17.06.2013   Participation in “Leukemia and Lymphoma” course/conference, Ascona, Switzerland

18.06.2012-29.06.2012  Observership in bone marrow transplantation. Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Institute of Children Hematology and Transplantation, St. Petersburg, Russia. Mentor-Prof. Boris Afanasyev

01.06.2010-25.06.2010  Observership in hematology/oncology. The 1-st department of Medicine & Medical Oncology at the Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria. Head of the department, mentor – Prim. Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinz Ludwig.

08.06.2010-10.06.2010   Participation in the seminar of Clinical research at a glance. Vienna School of Clinical Research.

2009 – Present   coordinator of  “Max Access Solutions” program (The Max Foundation) in Armenia

Membership:

2015 – Present:  Member of ERIC – European Research Initiative on CLL

2014 – Present:  Member of SOHO – Society of Hematologic Oncology

2012 – Present:   Secretary of clinical hematology in executive board of Armenian Hematology Association

2009 – Present:   Member of EHA-European Hematology Association

2005 – Present:   Member of Armenian Medical Association

Publications:

  1. Epidemiology of leukemias and lymphomas in Armenia according to the data for 1998-2004. S.Daghbashyan, Ye. Amirkhanyan, K. Meliksetyan, H. Khachatryan, Aryun 1(3), Yerevan 2006
  2. CD200: A differential diagnosis marker and therapeutic target of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). S. Daghbashyan Smbat, A. Aywaz, K. Meliksetyan,  A. Sevoyan, EAFO V Eurasian Hematology Forum St. Petersburg 2017
  3. Our experience in treatment of adult ALL (incl. adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma) by GMALL protocol for treatment of ALL (incl. adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma). Zh. Nargizyan, S. Daghbashyan, Ye. Hakobyan, K.Meliksetyan, M.Saaryan, R.Stepanyan, EHA-1186 abstract, EHA-23 annual meeting in June 2018
  4. The effectiveness of chemoprophylaxis introduction in acute leukemia management in Armenia. K. Meliksetyan, A. Sanosyan, N. Ghahramanyan, M. Avagyan and S. Daghbashyan, Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia, volume 18, supplement 1, Sep. 2018
  5. Pregnancy outcome in female patients with chronic myeloid leukemia worldwide: analysis of 305 cases of the European Leukemia Net registry. E. Chelysheva, A. Turkina, D. Rea, … K. Meliksetyan, …. E. Abruzzese, EHA-3208 abstract, EHA-24 annual meeting  in June 2019
  6. Quality life of Armenian patients with acute leukemia. G. Saghumyan, S. Danielyan, K. Meliksetyan, N. Ghahramanyan, L. Harutyunyan, Ye. Hakobyan, abstract for SOHO 2019 annual meeting, Houston TX, Sep. 2019
  7. Chronic myeloid leukemia with primary blast crisis: experience of Hematology Center in Armenia. N.Ghahramanyan, S. Danielyan, K. Meliksetyan, Ye.Hakobyan, abstract for SOHO 2019 annual meeting, Houston TX, Sep. 2019

BOARD

Vahan Simonyan
Vahan Simonyan

Chairman of the Board

Gagik Bazikyan

Board member

Karen Meliksetyan

Board member

Davit Babikyan

Board member