Nuru Bayramov
Nuru Bayramov (; born 1963) is a surgeon, a professor and head of first department of surgical diseases in Azerbaijan Medical University. Early life, education and career. Nuru Bayramov was born on 17 September 1963 in the Narimanli village of Basargechar region of Goycha. He went to Narimanli village secondary school in 1970, and after graduating from high school in 1980, entered the first year of treatment and prevention faculty of Azerbaijan Medical University in the same year. He graduated from the faculty with honors from Lenin and majoring in [surgery]. From 1986 to 1988, he passed clinical internship  at the first Department of Surgical Diseases of the Azerbaijan Medical University. In 1991 he entered the postgraduate course and completed his postgraduate study at the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University with a degree in Research Doctor. In 1991, Nuru Bayramov received his Philosophy Doctor (PhD) in Medicine degree in I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University where he defended his thesis on "Application of combined lasers in the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis". From 1991 to 1994, he worked as the associate professor assistant of the first Department of Surgical Diseases of the Azerbaijan Medical University. During the  first Karabakh War, he was active in providing surgical treatment in Tartar military hospital and introduce innovative treatment methods for cold related injuries during the Khojaly Massacre. In 1994 he was sent to the Republic of Turkey to conduct scientific research on "Liver Surgery and Transplantation" and to practice on "Laparoscopic, Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery". Until 2000 he has done research and practice in the Advanced Specialty Hospital of Turkey, Organ Transplant Hospital of Başkent University and Department of Surgical Oncology of Ankara University. Between the years of 1996-1998 has served as an associate professor in the Department of  General Surgery of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University and Kırıkkale University. In 1999, he defended his thesis on “Prediction and prevention of complications after liver resection” and received his degree of Doctor in Medical Sciences. In 2000 he was supervising the doctors and nurses of Central Clinic Hospital who were sent to expertise in Turkey. Since 2001, he has been active in the organization of Central Clinical Hospital and Central Customs Hospital, personnel training, establishment of general, laparoscopic, hepatobiliary and transplant surgery. In 2001 he served as associate professor in first Department of Surgical Diseases of Azerbaijan Medical University, in 2004  as a Full Professor and in 2012 he was elected Head of the department. Between the years of 2015–2016, he directed Surgical Education Hospital of Azerbaijan Medial University. In 2014, he was elected a correspondent member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Between 2018-2020, as a member of the working group in the Health Committee of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, he actively participated in the development of the legislation "donation and transplantation of human organs". In 2020, he took an active part in the training, organization and implementation of surgical services to the wounded of the 2020  Nagorno-Karabakh war at the Azerbaijan Medical University's clinic of Surgery, the Central Hospital of the State Customs Committee (Azerbaijan) and central hospital of State Security Service (Azerbaijan). Between 2020-2021, he provided consulting assistance in solving surgical, transplantation and hepatological problems in patients with coranovirus, participated in the organization of scientific and practical activities. Activities. Scientific activity. Nuru Bayramov's scientific career has started from student days. He has been a member of the Student Scientific Community from the third year of the university, the chairman of the Student Scientific Society of the Faculty of Treatment and Prevention  between 1984 and 1986, and has repeatedly spoken at conferences of Student Scientific Societies in Azerbaijan and various countries of the USSR. While he was a student, he published 11 scientific papers. Given his excellent studentship and active involvement in research, he was awarded the Lenin Scholarship, the highest scholarship of the Institute in 1985. He continued his scientific activity during clinical internship and received patent certificate for the new treatment of Pilonidal sinus disease. His later research activity continued between 1988 and 1991 as a postgraduate study in Department of General Surgery in I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical  University. He has done scientific work on the use of lasers in surgery under the guidance of professors V.I. Gostishev and V.A. Vertyanov. Between 1991 and 1994 he continued research of the use of lasers and the water-soluble based ointments for treatment of gunshot and cold injuries in Azerbaijan Medical University. Results of this studies were published in some articles and doctoral thesis. His next research activity continued in 1994–2000 at the Advanced Specialty Hospital of Turkey, Başkent University, Ankara University and Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. In addition to being specialized in these education and research centers, he has  performed clinical and experimental studies on transplantation, liver resection and laparoscopic surgery. Liver resection in live donors, water-jet for liver resection, CUSA) and argon coagulation in the cirrhotic liver resection, effects of lasers and dalargin on liver regeneration, liver regeneration after resection, prevention of postresection complications, complication after laparoscopic surgery, classification of the gunshot injuries of the liver have been his main research topics of this period. He conducted an experimental study on the use of waterjet in liver resection at the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in 1997 and was able to specify some parameters of the water jet  (diameter and pressure). Several articles and one doctoral thesis on this topic are defended. As a result of clinical and experimental studies on liver resection and transplantation he has published 2 monographs and 31 articles. In 1999 he defended his thesis on "Prediction and prevention of complications after liver resection" and received a scientific degree of "Doktor Nauk in Medical Sciences". Back in 2000, Nuru Bayramov returned to Azerbaijan, where he previously worked as an associate professor at the Azerbaijan Medical University, and currently head of the Department of I Surgical Diseases. The main areas of his research during this  period are liver resection, liver and kidney transplantation, laparoscopic and metabolic surgery, stem cells and genetic studies. Under his leadership doctoral thesis on topics of laparoscopic appendectomy, laparoscopic fundoplication, laparoscopic bile duct exploration, laparoscopic hernia repair, simultaneuse laproscopic surgery were defended. At present doctoral thesis on topics such as biliary complications, microRNA, histones and hepatic dysfunctions after liver transplantation, iodine polymers in thyroid pathology, elastography in liver pathology, bariatric surgery in obesity are continued. Grant projects on gene polymorphism in cirrhosis, elastography and fatty liver have been adopted. For the first time in Azerbaijan, it was used by stem cells  for liver disease. He has been active in scientific and organizational work in Azerbaijan and around the world. In Azerbaijan he actively participated in defining and promoting pillar priorities of medical science (stem cells and regenerative medicine, genomics, molecular biology, high technologies and medicine, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, etc.). He has been organizing 5-6 international conferences every year since 2014, including Baku-Malatya Transplant Days, Turkey-Azerbaijan Hepatology Course, Regular Conferences on Bariatric Surgery, Endocrine Surgery, Colorectal Surgery. Up to date (2022), he had participated in 205 congresses, a total of 415 scientific works was published: 31 books , 10 methodical recommendations, 163 journal articles, 201 theses and 10 inventions and effective proposals. Under his supervision 7 scientific dissertations were defended. He is a participant of two grant projects. Practical activities. Nuru Bayramov has actively involved in the process of modernization and development of clinical, scientific medicine and medical education in Azerbaijan. In the 1990s, he involved in advanced care of victims in the first Karabakh War and in frontline military hospitals. He has taken active part in the treatment of civilians who forced to leave their homes in the Khojaly Massacre in 1992 and had frostbite in  their hands and feet and had successfully implemented a new method of treatment. In January 1994, he worked at the Military Desert Hospital No. 2 in Tartar region and treated of numerous wounded soldiers. He also took an active part in the training, organization and implementation of surgical services to the wounded of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war at the Azerbaijan Medical University's clinic of Surgery, the Central Hospital of the State Customs Committee (Azerbaijan) and central hospital of State Security Service (Azerbaijan). He has been active in the organization of general, laparoscopic and liver surgery at Van Yüzüncü  Yıl University and Kırıkkale University. He has been pioneering in the development and implementation of international clinical protocols, laying the foundations of laparoscopic, transplantation, liver and bariatric-metabolic surgery in Azerbaijan. He has actively participated in establishment of laparoscopyc, transplantation centers and realization of the liver and kidney transplantation in prime hospitals in Azerbaijan such as, Central Clinic Hospital, M. Naghiyev Emergency and Medical Care Hospital, Central Customs Hospital and Azerbaijan Medical University Surgical Educational Hospital. He has broken grounds in healthcare industry in Azerbaijan by leading first stem cell transplantation, major liver resections, hepatectomy including (ALPPS) surgery, damage control  surgery, laparostomy and mesh closure surgery, advanced laparoscopic operations such as, common bile duct exploration and resection, choledocho-duodenostomy, choledocho-yeyunostomy, fundoplication, liver, pancreas, gastric, bowel, colon resections, portal vein ligations, gasto-yeyunostomy, splenectomy, hysterectomy, cystectomy, renal operations and sympathectomy, thoracoscopic phrenic nervectomy (first time in the world) and first organ transplantation in Azerbaijan Medical University (2015). His initiate surgeons have an important role in the development and wide application of laparoscopic surgery in Azerbaijan and around the world. Nuru Bayramov was a participant and international expert at “Live transplantation for five patients at the same time” held at Inonu  University's Liver Transplantation Institute (Malatya, Turkey) which was awarded and granted by Guinness World Records Title. Pedagogical activities. Nuru Bayramov started his pedagogical activities at General Surgery Department in I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University the continued in Azerbaijan Medical University (1991-1994), Van Yüzüncü Yıl University (1996-1997), Kırıkkale University (1998) and Azerbaijan Medical University from 1999 until today. Currently he is head of first Department of Surgical Diseases. He was also actively involved in modernizing the surgical education of students and residents in Azerbaijan. Under his leadership, a modern educational program for students and residents has  been developed for the first time in our country. Including a curriculum for Surgical Diseases and Military Surgery, an online surgical textbook, and an online portal named bck.az, compiled electronic versions of teaching materials, including lectures, practical topics, operating techniques and test questions, started using multimedia tools, organized interactive morning lessons and concerts, developed surgical patient examination and treatment protocols, open to students and residents. laparoscopic surgical training courses, courses abroad and online. Scientific societies. Since 2006 Nuru Bayramov is a member of Scientific Council of the Medical Faculty and of Azerbaijan Medical University. Between the years of 2006 and  2014 he was member of “D.03.011” Dissertation Council. Since 2014 he is Chairman of the Coordination Council for Medicine in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and also Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Certifying Committee of Azerbaijan Republic since 2015. Since 2016, he was Deputy Secretary of the Department of Biology and Medicine and a Member of the Bureau in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2019 he was chairman of Problem Commission Surgery in Azerbaijan Medical University. International scientific societies. European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES), European  Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), European Society for Colorectal Surgeons (ESCS), International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), The Transplantation Society (TTS), International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists, and Oncologists (IASGO), The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO), European Transluminal Surgery Society (EATS), Asian and Passific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL), Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (CRSA) and Society of Gastroenterologists in Turkey. Family. He is married and has three children.