Georgi Chaltikyan

Professor and Head of Digital Health at European Campus Rottal-Inn, Bavaria, Germany

Georgi Chaltikyan, MD, PhD is Professor and Head of Digital Health at European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI), a branch of Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DITECRI) in Bavaria, Germany, Founder and Head of the Research and Education Center of Digital Head at Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (RAU-CDH), and the Founding President of Armenian Association of Digital Health (AADH).

He is a graduate of the Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia; he has been trained as a general surgeon and spent about 20 years in clinical practice in general and laparoscopic surgery. He has extensive experience in healthcare education, research, and management. From 2001-2009 he has served as an associate professor at Yerevan State Medical University and has taught medicine and surgery to undergraduate and postgraduate students (in English, Armenian and Russian languages).

In 2009-2010 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Keck School of Medicine, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. In 2010-2015 he worked in private surgical practice at a large multi-profile hospital. He has more than 12 years of work experience in the field of Digital Health. As the founding president of a non-governmental organization Armenian Association of Digital Health (AADH), he has been instrumental in the design and implementation of a number of successful Digital Health projects with international participation.

Prof. Chaltikyan joined DIT-ECRI at its launch in 2015; he is the Program Head of Master of Digital Health (MDH) that is operated as a Double-Degree Study Program at DIT-ECRI in Germany and at RAU in Armenia, and is responsible for a number of study courses in Global and International Healthcare Management, Health Research, and Digital Health. He also leads international collaborative projects and programs, such as DIT-ECRI’s institutional membership in, and partnership with such notable organizations as Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH), International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), German Digital Medicine Society (DGDM), and HL7 Germany, as well as for the participation in the Consortium of Educational Institutions in Digital Health (CONEDIG) under the auspices of the ISfTeH, of which DIT-ECRI is a Founding Member. He has publications on different aspects of Digital Health, is involved in several research and development projects in the field, and is a frequent keynote speaker and moderator at international conferences. His main research focus is on Global Digital Health and Digital Health Education. Since 2019 he has been a WHO Digital Health Consultant. He is a co-founder and head of the Armenian Digital Health Initiative being currently developed and implemented by the Armenian Association of Digital Health (AADH) and its partners.