Kanan Yusif-zada was born in Gakh, Azerbaijan on June 28, 1973.
He started his primary education in Khutul, Mongolia. Later he came to Azerbaijan and completed his secondary education at the gymnasium of physics and mathematics in Sumgayit with a "Silver" medal.
In 1990, he started his undergraduate education at Azerbaijan Medical University and graduated from this faculty in 1996 with honors.
During 1996-1998, he studied general surgery at Azerbaijan Medical University.
In 2004, he protected scientific work under the name “Role of Anandamide at mesenteric ischemia-reperfusion” and was awarded the title of Ph.D. in Medicine.
In 2004, he carried out research work in the framework of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) sponsored NATO-PC "B" scholarship program in Ankara, Turkey and earned the highest qualification (Gastroenterology and Invasive Endoscopy) certificate.
In 2004 he completed research work within the NATO-PC "B" scholarship program supported by TUBITAK in Ankara, Turkey, and received a certificate of higher specialization (Gastroenterology and Invasive Endoscopy).
In 2008, he started a research fellowship in the Department of Colorectal Surgery in Cleveland Clinic in the United States, and that December, worked as a visiting physician at the Department of General Surgery and Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Mayo Clinic.
In 2016, he defended the Ph.D. thesis on "Minimally invasive interventions in pathologies of extrahepatic biliar system structures".
Career
He specializes in general and military surgery, gastroenterology and surgical endoscopy, breast and endocrine surgery, hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, colorectal surgery, military trauma, and business management.
Medical work
Kanan Yusif-zada gained his first medical experience in 1991–1996 as a senior preparator in the department of "Operative surgery and topographic anatomy" of Azerbaijan Medical University. Later he worked at the division of clinical ordinatura there.
Chief of Department of Surgery in City Hospital, Baku (2004-2005)
Chief of Department of Endoscopic Surgery and Diagnostics in Central Hospital of Oil Workers (2005-2010)
Head of the Military Medical Division of the State Border Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2020-2021)
General Surgeon and Gastroenterologist at "Leyla Medical Center" (from 11.2021 up to now)
In 2016 he began working as a Professor teaching Fundamentals of Medical Aid in Civil Defense at the Department of Chemical Engineering in Baku Higher Oil School.[1]
From 10.2022 up to now - Lecturer at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC), Healthcare Management
Presidium of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences elected Yusif-zada Kanan Rafael - Professor of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences by the decision dated July 17, 2019.
Societies
Turkish Association for Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery (from 2004 to the present)
Russian Society of Surgeons-Gastroenterologists (from 2006 to the present)
Turkish-Azerbaijani Endoscopic Surgeons Association, founder and chairman (2007-2018)[2]
Turkish Thoracic Surgery Society (from 2015 to the present)
Russian Society of Surgeons (from 2016 to the present)[3]
Ambroise Paré International Military Surgery Forum (President, 2017-2019)[4]
Association of Military Surgeons, founder and chairman (from 2018 to the present)
Associate Member of the International Academy of Engineering (from 2018 up to now)
Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering (from 2020 up to now)
Fellow of the Academy of the Asian Collaboration for Trauma (ACT) (2022).
International Pilonidal Society (2024)
Editorial board of “Новости хирургии” (Belarus), Clinical Case and Frontier Surgery magazines
Research
Author of 1 invention[which?], 1 working model, 6 books, more than 100 scientific articles, and thesis.
Reviewer in such publications as "Clinical Case Reports", "Frontiers", a member of the editorial board of the journal "News of Surgery" (Belarus) and a member of the International Advisory Board of Fujita Medical Journal (Japan).
Books
2002: General Surgery (in Turkish), co-author.
2005: Gynecologic and Obstetrical Surgery (in English), Ventral Abdominal Hernias, and Malign and Benign diseases of breast (two chapters)
2011: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (in Azerbaijani), Baku, Azerbaijan.
2012: Surgical Endoscopy (in Azerbaijani), Baku, Azerbaijan.
2016: Semi-Public Hospital Management (in English), Baku, Azerbaijan.
2017: Fundamentals of Civil Defense and Medical Aid (in English), Baku, Azerbaijan.
2019: "100th anniversary of the Border Guard of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1919-2019)" anniversary medal.
2020: The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", III class for his work as a doctor-surgeon in the 44-day Patriotic War (by order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan).
Patents
“Method of treatment of peritonitis” registered by the State Committee of Science and Technology of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the state register in 18.12.98 (P 980095);
“Laparoscopic Trainer” registered by the State Committee of Standardization, Metrology and Patent of Azerbaijan Republic in 05.11.2014 (F20140011)
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