Nuru Bayramov

Nuru Bayramov (Nuru Yusif oğlu Bayramov; born 1963) is a surgeon, a professor and head of first department of surgical diseases in Azerbaijan Medical University.

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].

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.

From 1986 to 1988, he passed clinical internship at the first Department of Surgical Diseases of the Azerbaijan Medical University.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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 his degree of Doctor in Medical Sciences.

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".

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.

In 2000 he was supervising the doctors and nurses of Central Clinic Hospital who were sent to expertise in Turkey.

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 laparoscopic 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.

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.

In 2014, he was elected a correspondent member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Between the years of 2015–2016, he directed Surgical Education Hospital of Azerbaijan Medial University.

Between 2018 and 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 and 2021, he provided consulting assistance in solving surgical, transplantation and hepatological problems in patients with coronavirus, participated in the organization of scientific and practical activities.

Nuru Bayramov's scientific career has started from student days.