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:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Chairman of the Board
Gagik Bazikyan
Board member
Karen Meliksetyan
Board member
Tsaghkanush Sargsyan
Board member
Davit Babikyan
Board member