Gynecologist, Oncologist, Surgeon Artem V. Stepanyan

“Radical Pelvic Surgery”, Leipzig School of Radical Pelvic Surgery, Leipzig, Germany, 2015
“Laparoscopic Gynecology”, Malzoni Medical Center, Avellino Italy, 2014
“Laparoscopic Gynecological Oncology”, Charite University Hospital, Berlin Germany, 2011
“Gynecology-oncology”, OMI Internship, Department of General Gynecology, University Hospital of Graz, Austria, 2010
“Gynecology-oncology”, IGCS fellowship, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital: Oncogynaecological Centre, Prague Czech Republic, 2009
“Gynecology-oncology”, IGCS fellowship, Division of Gynecological Oncology Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, 2009
“Video-Endoscopic Surgery”, training by KULeuven, Center for Surgical Technologies Faculty of Medicine Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, 2009
“Gynecology-oncology”, ESGO fellowship. Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital: Oncogynecological Centre, Prague Czech Republic, 2008
“Operative Gynecology (Microsurgery, Laparoscopy)”, DAAD Internship, Otto-Von-Guericke University Women’s Hospital, Magdeburg, Germany, 2006–2007
“Operative Gynecology (Gynecology-oncology, Laparoscopy)”, OMI Internship, Department of General Gynecology, University Hospital of Graz, Graz, Austria, 2006
“Gender, Reproductive and Sexual Health and Fertility” course of Amsterdam Master’s in Medical Anthropology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
“Oncology”, Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminar under the auspices of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Salzburg, Austria, 2005
“Maternal and Infant Health”, Salzburg Columbia Medical Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 2005
«Contemporary update on female urology», European School of Urology Organized Course Yerevan, RA, 2003
WHO Workshop on Cervical Cancer Screening, Sevan, RA, 2000

Residency: general oncology, Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU), Yerevan, RA, 1996-1998
Residency: obstetrics and gynecology, YSMU, Yerevan, RA, 1994-1996

MD, YSMU, 1988-1994

Patents

Method of vaginal cuff closure in abdominal hysterectomy. Patent No 440 of Armenian State Patent Bureau, given 05.15.98
Method of retroperitoneal space drainage in radical hysterectomy. Patent No 477 of Armenian State Patent Bureau, given 09.15.98
Publications – 30

Jilavyan GA, Stepanyan AV. Comparative characteristics of some methods of vaginal cuff closure. Jubilee Session of Oncological Scientific Center. Yerevan 1996.
Jilavyan GA, Stepanyan AV, Malchasyan NV. Cytological control of vaginal stump healing after hysterectomy. First Congress of Trans-Caucasian oncologists. Tbilisi, Georgia 1998.
Jilavyan GA, Stepanyan AV. Leucocytar infiltrations index in treatment of inflammatory complications after radical hysterectomy. Actual Questions of Surgery. Yerevan 1998.
Stepanyan AV. The impact of vaginal cuff closure on vaginal stump healing in hysterectomy. Oncology 2000. Second Conference of Oncologists of CIS. Kiev, Ukraine 2000.
Stepanyan AV, Jilavyan GA. The impact of method of vaginal cuff closure on inflammatory complications after hysterectomy. Oncology 2000. Second Conference of Oncologists of CIS. Kiev, Ukraine 2000.
Stepanyan AV. The impact of tumor’s stage on post hysterectomy pelvic inflammatory complications in oncogynecological patients. The 4-th International Medical Congress of Students and Young Scientists. Ternopil 2000, Ukraine.
Stepanyan AV. Prophylactics of parametrial inflammatory complications after hysterectomy in oncogynecology. Materials and Reports of Reproductology problems. Yerevan 2000.
Stepanyan AV, Jilavyan GA. Comparative analysis of frequency and character of complications after hysterectomy in patients with open and combined methods of vaginal cuff closure. The First Pan-Army Medical Conference. Yerevan 2001.
Stepanyan AV. Leucocytar infiltration index in diagnostics of local inflammatory complications after hysterectomy in oncological patients. Third Congress of Trans-Caucasian Oncologists. Yerevan 2004.
Stepanyan AV. Risk factors of local inflammatory complications after hysterectomy in oncological patients. Third Congress of Trans-Caucasian Oncologists. Yerevan 2004.
Stepanyan A; Sirounyan A. Early detection of pelvic cellulites after abdominal hysterectomy. Abstract book 3-rd Young Medics International Conference. 2005 Yerevan, Armenia. p. 176
Stepanyan A; Sirounyan A. Hysteroscopic surgery as an alternative to hysterectomy in woman with dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Abstract book 3-rd Young Medics International Conference. 2005 Yerevan, Armenia. p. 177
Sirounyan A; Stepanyan A. Transobturator tape – a new minimally invasive treatment of stress urinary incontinence in woman. Abstract book 3-rd Young Medics International Conference. 2005 Yerevan, Armenia. p. 174
Stepanyan A.V., Sirounyan A.S., Tevosyan R.V., Kazaryan A.B. Radical hysterectomy using Liga-Sure vessel sealing system. Actual problems of obstetrics and gynecology. Abstract book of International Scientific-Practical Conference. 2006 Yerevan, Armenia. P 187-189.
Sirounyan A.S., Stepanyan A.V. The use of Liga-Sure Vessel sealing system in vaginal hysterectomy. Actual problems of obstetrics and gynecology. Abstract book of International Scientific-Practical Conference. 2006 Yerevan, Armenia. P 184-187.
Asibekyan G., Stepanyan A. Vessel-by-vessel technique of lateral parametria resection in radical hysterectomy. The New Armenian Medical Journal. 2009, Vol.3 N3, p. 63
Stepanyan A., Asilbekyan G. Nerve sparing radical hysterectomy: our experience. The New Armenian Medical Journal. 2009, Vol.3 N3, p. 74
Stepanyan A., Asilbekyan G., Lekhlyan A., Hayrapetyan E. Nerve-Sparing versus classical Okabayashi radical hysterectomy, comparison of radicality and functional outcomes. 3-rd International Medical Congress of Armenia. Yerevan 2011. Abstract book P264.
Stepanyan A., Asilbekyan G., Lekhlyan A., Hayrapetyan E. Electrosurgical technique of pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy performed for gynecological malignancies. 3-rd International Medical Congress of Armenia. Yerevan 2011. Abstract book P264-265.
Urumyan S., Stepanyan A., Sirunyan A. Role of laparoscopy in the management of advanced ovarian cancer. 3-rd International Medical Congress of Armenia. Yerevan 2011. Abstract book P265-266.
Stepanyan A., Zola P., Reed N., Lax S. ESGO affiliated virtual tumor board in Armenia, preliminary report. First Armenian International Congress on Telemedicine and Health “Armtelemed Road to the Future” Yerevan, 2011 Congress proceedings P189-190.
Head of Gynecological Oncology Service, “Nairi” Medical Center, Yerevan, RA, 2013–present
Associate professor, Oncology Department, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, RA, 2011–present
Assistant professor, Oncology Department, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, RA, 2009–2011
Deputy Director, “Shengavit” Medical Center, Yerevan, Yerevan, RA, 2006–present
Chief, gynecology-oncology service, “Shengavit” Medical Center, Yerevan, RA, 2006–2011
Chief, Division of Gynecology, Department of General Surgery - Ministry of Internal Affairs Hospital, Yerevan, RA, 2002-2005
Responsible executor, State Sponsored Research - Gynecological Department National Center of Oncology, Yerevan, RA, 2000-2005
Attending physician, Gynecological Department - National Center of Oncology, Yerevan, 1998-2002
Male nurse, No 11 Municipal Outpatient, Yerevan, RA, 1993-1994