Los Angeles, CA - A formal meeting
between the Armenian American Medical Society (AA
M
S) Executive Board, led by Raffi Tach
djia
n,
MD, MPH and Prof. Armen Muradyan Rector of Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical Un
iversit
y (YSMU) and Former Health Minister of The Republic of Armenia, was held at the Armenian Consulate in Glendale, CA. The meeting was facilitated by Dr. Shant Shekherdimian Pediatric surgeon at UCLA Health.
This visionary and impactful meeting took place at the Armenian consulate in the presence of the Deputy General Consul of Armenia Valery Mkrtumian. The primary objective of this meeting was to open a dialogue to discuss collaboration between AAMS and YSMU. The plan for this collaboration and AAMS's goal is to foster a new era of communication and sharing of ideas, to increase the school's impact both scientifically and altruistically in order to become a model system to be exemplified by other countries and healthcare systems.
The parties reached concrete goals to set an outline that looks to assist, not just the students both here in the diaspora and in Yerevan, but to correspondingly lay the foundation to strengthen the impact the school will have, this collaboration will have, and to make YSMU one of the leading schools in the world.
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Standing from left: Dr. Haroutun Hovanesian, Dr. Armond Kotikian, Dr. Silva Gasparian, Razmik Stepanyan, Valery Mkrtumian Deputy General Consul, Osheen Keshishian, Dr. Shant Shekherdimian |
Sitting from left: Harut Sassounian, Dr. Armen Muradyan, Rector of YSMU, Raffi Tachdjian, President of AAMS and Dr. Hmayak Sisakyan
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