After graduating from the Faculty of General Medicine at the Yerevan State Medical Institute named after Mkhitar Heratsi and specializing in maxillofacial surgery, I headed the maxillofacial surgery department at the Yerevan Garrison Military Hospital. In 2011, together with my colleague and friend Armen Harutyunyan, we founded the maxillofacial surgery department at the Malatia Medical Center, which continues to actively develop under its new name, Astghik.