LAURA MOVSISYAN

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

1973-1979 - Student at Yerevan State Medical Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

1979-1980 - Internship on General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital #3, Leninakan, Armenia

1989 - 4 months training in General Pediatrics at National Institute of Health,     Yerevan, Armenia

1990-1992 - Postgraduate Training in Pediatric Rehabilitation, “Project HOPE” Pediatric Rehabilitation Program, Yerevan, Armenia

1991 Sept.-1992 March - 6 months fellowship in Pediatric Rehabilitation at Children’s Hospital, Richmond, VA, USA                                                          

1994 - 1 month training in Pediatric Rehabilitation, Portland, OR, USA

1997 - 1 month training in Pediatric Rehabilitation at Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

1998 - 1 month training in Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Rehabilitation at Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA

1999 - 1 month training in Assessment and Treatment of a Child with Cerebral Palsy, Olshten, Poland

 2002 - 1 month training in Pediatric and Adults Rehabilitation (EMG and SSEP’s) at Cincinnati Medical Center and Shriners Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

2003 - 2 weeks training in General Pediatrics, Neonatology and IC, Cairo, Egypt

2003 - 2 weeks training in General and Pediatric Rehabilitation, Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

2004 - 2 weeks training in Pediatric Rehabilitation, Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA   

2003 - 2 weeks training in Maternal and Child Health Care, Cairo, Egypt

2004 - 2 months training in Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT Bobath), Yerevan, Armenia

2005 - 2 weeks training in Hemophilia, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2006 Jan. - 1 week seminar in Neurology, Salzburg, Austria

2007 Sept. - 1 week seminar in Epilepsy, Eilat, Israel

2008 Dec. - 1 week seminar in Rehabilitation Medicine, Salzburg, Austria

2009 July - 4 week observership in PM&R at the Medical University-General Hospital, Vienna, Austria

2015 - 1 week seminar in Rehabilitation Medicine, Salzburg, Austria

CAREER:

2017 till present - Head of Pediatric Rehabilitation Cervice  at “Armenak and Anna Tadeosean’s” MC

2016-2017 - Rehabilitologist at “Asthkik” MC

1992-2016 - Pediatric Rehabilitologist at Republican Pediatric Rehabilitation Center Head of Deparment-1997 to present

2014-2016 - Head of Rehabilitation Cervice “Erebouni” MC

2009-2017 - Assistant Professor at the Medical Rehabilitation Department at Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

2007-2009 - Assistant of Professor at the No. 2 Pediatric and Surgery Department at Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

2006 Aug.-Nov. - Locum doctor at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

2000-2004 - Asisstant Professor at the Rehabilitation and Sport Medicine Department at Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

1993-2000 - Assisstant Professor at the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitology Department at National Institute of Health, Yerevan, Armenia

1994-2000 - Head Pediatic Rehabilitology Specialist at the Ministry of Health, Yerevan, Armenia  

1984-1992 - District Pediatrician at Children's Polyclinic #8, Yerevan, Armenia

1981-1984 - Neonatologist at Regional Hospital, Aparan, Armenia

1980-1981 - Professor at Nursing College, Leninakan, Armenia

PARTICIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS:

1991 Oct. - Annual Meeting of American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitology, Washington, D.C., USA

1994 Sept. - Annual Meeting of American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitology, San Antonio, TX, USA

1997 Sept. - Annual Meeting of American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitology, USA

1998 Sept. - Annual Meeting of American Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine (AACPDM), USA

2002 April - Meeting of Eastern Mediterranean Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

2003 June - International Conference on Cerebral Palsy, Quebec, Canada

2005 Sept - Annual Meeting on American Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA

2006 June -Meeting of East European and Mediterranean Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

2007 May -World Federation of Hemophilia, 10th Musculoskeletal Congress, Stresa, Italy

2008 June - World Congress of Hemophilia, Istanbul, Turkey

2008 Sept. - International Congress on Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT-Bobath), Chania, Greece

2009 April - World Federation of Hemophilia, Musculoskeletal Congress, Cartagena De Indias, Colombia

2013 Oct. -European Accademy of Childhood Disability, Annual Conference, Newcastle, England

2016 Dec. - European Accademy of Childhood Disability meeting, Tbilisi, Gorgia

2017 Oct  - VII International Congress of Cerebral Palsy and other movement disorders of childhood, Moscow, Russia                         

MEMBERSHIPS:

1999 till present-Corresponding Member of American Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine

AWARDS

2014 June 19- recipient of the Community Service Award of the 2014 Universal Rights Awards, given by the U.S. Embassy of Armenia in recognition of “outstanding efforts to provide rehabilitation services to children with disabilities.”

SKILLS:

 NCV and EMG studies, BOTOX and Phenol injections