Educational Background
2002-2022 WSO Future Stroke Leaders Programme, World Stroke Organization
2009-2010 Distance Education Course on Neuroimaging of Epilepsy, VIREPA, European Epilepsy Academy
2009-2010 EFNS educational fellowship, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy
2008 European English-speaking EUREPA Train-the-Trainer Course, European Epilepsy Academy (held in Malta)
2005-2006 Distance Education Course on Genetics of Epilepsy, VIREPA, European Epilepsy Academy
2005 EFNS Department to Department fellowship, Innsbruck University Clinic for Neurology, Austria
2002 Training on Clinical Epileptology and EEG, Erebouni University Hospital, Yerevan, Armenia
1999-2002 Neurology residency (3-year program), Yerevan State Medical University, Department of Neurology, Yerevan, Armenia
1999 Internship on Emergency medicine, “Emergency Care” Medical Center, Yerevan, Armenia
1992-1999 Medical doctor, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia
Professional Memberships
1999-present International League Against Epilepsy member
2001-present European Academy of Neurology member
2004-present Armenian League Against Epilepsy (ALAE) Secretary General
2007-present International Association for the Study of Pain, Neuropathic pain special interest group member
2007- present Movement Disorder Society member
2008-present European Epilepsy Academy Certified trainer
2016-present European Stroke Organization Member and ESO-EAST regional representative
Professional Experience
2019-present President, Armenia Stroke Council
2019-present Associate professor, Chair of Neurology, National Institute of Health, Yerevan, Armenia
2014-present Head of Department, Neurology Department and Stroke Center, Erebouni Medical Center
2010-2014 Neurologist, Neurology Department, Erebouni Medical Center
2002-2010 Assistant professor, Chair of Neurology, Yerevan State Medical University
2003-2010 Teaching neurology for fourth year medical students, Supervisor
2008 First Caucasian regional summer school on clinical epileptology,Course organizer Tsaghkadzor, Armenia
2008 CME Clinical Neurology for General Physicians, Lecturer
2010-2011 Advances in Pain Management-Lecturer and Course Organizer
2010-present Training neurology residents for multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, Supervisor
2013 Fourth Caucasian Regional Summer School on Comprehensive Epilepsy, Lecturer, Lopota, Georgia
2013 Fifth caucasian Regional Summer School on Comprehensive Approach to Focal non-Idiopathic Epilepsies,Organizer, Dilijan, Armenia
2014 Summer school on stroke care organization, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia
2015 Update in neuroscience satellite symposium, Armenian Medical International Congress,Organizer, Yerevan, Armenia
2015 Neuroanatomy course for physicians,Speaker and organizer, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Regional stroke symposium organized by ESO and Armenian Neurological Association, Local organizer, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 Caucasian Regional Summer School on management of difficult-to-treat Epilepsies,Organizer Yerevan, Armenia
2018 BRAIN 2018, A Neurology and Neurosurgery International Conference,Speaker and organizer, Yerevan, Armenia
2019 Acute stroke symposium Neurology Satellite. Armenian Medical International Congress,Lecturer and organizer,Yerevan, Armenia
2022 Bridging stroke fellowship, Yerevan, Armenia
2019-present Acute stroke care program successful implementation and leadership of stroke team, acute stroke patients care on daily basis
2015-present In-patient daily rounds and care of general neurology and NICU patients
2003-present Out-Patient care on daily basis mainly for stroke, multiple sclerosis, as well as general neurology patients
2002-2015 Worked in Neurophysiology (EEG, EMG), department
2006-present Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Armenia
2006-present Risk factors of Ischemic stroke in Armenia: Retrospective and prospective study
2009-2010 Studied DNA copy number variations in idiopathic epilepsies
Scientific Activity
Yeghiazaryan N.S; Darbinyan V. Zh. Reproductive endocrine disorders in women with epilepsy. Erebouni Medical Messenger, 2004,Yerevan, Armenia
Darbinyan V. ZH; Melikyan G. R; Yeghiazaryan N. S; Soukhudyan B. G. Social integration of patients with epilepsy in Spitak. Erebouni Medical Messenger, 2004,Yerevan, Armenia
S.G. Khachatryan; Z.D. Tavadyan; N.S. Yeghiazaryan, G.R. Melikyan, T.H. Stepanyan, H.M. Manvelyan Quantitative assessment of quality of life ratings in Armenian Epilepsy patients. Issues of theoretical and clinical medicine, 2008
Melikyan GR, Yeghiazaryan NS, Khechumyan Z, Stepanyan T, Amroyan H, Shadyan I, Nahapetyan N, Ghambaryan M, Mkhitaryan L, Kalashyan HM, Janikyan K. Epilepsy care in Armenia. Armenian Journal of Mental Health 1.(2) 2010
Melikyan G. Yeghiazaryan N. The diagnostic and treatment gap of epilepsy in Armenia. Bulletin of the MI after Mehrabyan, 2010
Pezzella M, Yeghiazaryan NS, Veggiotti P, Bettinelli A, Giudizioso G, Zara F, Striano P, Minetti C. Galloway-Mowat syndrome: an early-onset progressive encephalopathy with intractable epilepsy associated to renal impairment. Two novel cases and review of literature. Seizure. 2010
Yeghiazaryan NS, Morana G, Veggiotti P, Savino G, Minetti C, Rossi A, Striano P, Giordano L. Temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal malrotation: is there a causal association? Epilepsy Behav. 2010
Yeghiazaryan NS, Striano P, Accorsi P, Pinelli L, Faravelli F, Zara F, Minetti C, Giordano L. Familial non kinesigenic paroxysmal dyskinesia and intracranial calcifications: A new syndrome? Mov Disord. 2010
Nune S Yeghiazaryan, Federico Zara, Giuseppe Capovilla, Giorgia Brigati, Pasquale Striano, Raffaele Falsaperla. Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy: An under-recognised cause of intractable seizures. Journal of Paediatrics and Child health
Yeghiazaryan NS, Striano P, Spaccini L, Pezzella M, Cassandrini D, Zara F, Mastrangelo M. Long-term follow-up in two siblings with pyridoxine-dependent seizures associated with a novel ALDH7A1 mutation. Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2011
Khachatryan SG, Ghahramanyan L, Tavadyan Z, Yeghiazaryan N, Attarian HP. Sleep-related movement disorders in a population of patients with epilepsy: prevalence and impact of restless legs syndrome and sleep bruxism. J Clin Sleep Med. 2020 Mar
Tavadyan, Z.D., Yeghiazaryan, N.S. and Khachatryan, S.G. Hemimasticatory Spasm: The First Case Report of Bilateral Presentation. Mov Disord Clin Pract, 2021
Ana Claudia de Souza, Ivy Anne Sebastian, Wan Asyraf Wan Zaidi, Ahmed Nasreldein, Danira Bazadona, Pablo Amaya, Ahmed Elkady, Meron Awraris Gebrewold, Pongpat Vorasayan, Nune Yeghiazaryan, Patrick Michel, Pooja Khatri, Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins, Werner Hacke, Vasileios-Arsenios Lioutas. Regional and national differences in stroke thrombolysis use and disparities in pricing, treatment availability, and coverage. Int J Stroke, 2022
Yeghiazaryan N, Isahakyan A, Zubalova L, et al. Stroke care in Armenia: Recent developments. European Stroke Journal
Sebastian IA, Demers M, Yeghiazaryan N, et al. Establishing Organized Stroke Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: From Training of Non-specialist to Implementation. Journal of Stroke Medicine
Darbinyan VG, Melikyan GR, Soukhoudyan BG, Ekhiazaryan NS. Raising Awareness of community about epilepsy in Spitak. European Journal of Neurology 2004
G.R. Melikyan, B. G. Sukhudyan, N. S. Yeghiazaryan, Z. V. Khechumyan, V. Zh. Darbinyan. Raising awareness on epilepsy among teachers and caregivers in earthquake zone. Second International Medical Congress of Armenia
Darbinyan VG, Melikyan GR, Hambartcumyan H, Stepanyan TH, Eghiazaryan NS, Nahapetyan N. Efficacy of Seizure control with Conventional AEDs in 376 Adult Patients with Epilepsy In Armenia: Epilepsy Database in Situation of no other Treatment options. Epilepsia 2006
N. Yeghiazaryan, T. Stepanyan, Z. Khechumyan, N. Nahapetyan, I. Shadyan, H. Muradyan, M. Ghambaryan, H. Amroyan, V. Mnatsakanyan, H. Kalashyan, G. Melikyan. Epilepsy Care in Armenia. European Journal of Neurology. Volume 16, Supplement s3, 2009
N. Yeghiazaryan, I. Shadyan, Z. Khechumyan, T. Stepanyan, G. Melikyan. “ HEMIPLEGIC MIGRAINE: A SERIES OF 7 PATIENTS”. European Journal of Pain Supplements, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2010
Nune S. Yeghiazaryan, M. Dzaghatspanyan, Z. Khechumyan, T. Stepanyan. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome as an initial manifestation of GuillainBarre syndrome. XXth World Congress of Neurology, 2011
I. Shadyan, M. Kirakosyan, N. S. Yeghiazaryan. A case of idiopathic pediatric retinal artery occlusion. Proceeding of BRAIN 2018, A Neurology and Neurosurgery International Conference, 28-30 September, Yerevan, Armenia
K.G. Hovhannisyan, Z.D. Tavadyan, N.S. Yeghiazaryan, Y.S. Tunyan, S.G. Khachatryan. Role of pregnancy and perinatal complications in the sleep pattern of epilepsy patients in adulthood. Proceeding of BRAIN 2018, A Neurology and Neurosurgery International Conference, 28-30 September, Yerevan, Armenia
L.G. Madoyan, G.G. Yeganyan, T.H. Stepanyan, N. S. Yeghiazaryan, Y.S. Tunyan, S.G. Khachatryan. Occurrence of febrile seizures in childhood is associated with sleep-related epileptic seizures in adulthood. Proceeding of BRAIN 2018, A Neurology and Neurosurgery International Conference, 28-30 September, Yerevan, Armenia
L. Minasyan, L. Zubalova, M. Balasanyan, A. Soghoyan, G. Hovhannisyan, Y. Hovhannisyan, R. Fanarjyan, K. Harutyunyan, E. Harutyunyan, A. Gasparyan, H. Manvelyan, N. Yeghiazaryan. EVALUATION OF STROKE CARE QUALITY IN ARMENIA 2019: DATA FROM REGISTRY OF STROKE CARE QUALITY (RES-Q). Abstract book of European Stroke Organization Conference (ESOC), 22-24 May, 2019, Milano, Italy
Khachatryan SG, Ghahramanyan L, Tavadyan Z, Yeghiazaryan N, Attarian HP. Sleep-related movement disorders in a population of patients with epilepsy: prevalence and impact of restless legs syndrome and sleep bruxism. J Clin Sleep Med. 2020
N. Yeghiazaryan, L. Minasyan, L. Madoyan, O. Ezoyan, M. Balasanyan, D. Margaryan, A. Petrosyan, Z. Baghdasaryan, D. Sahakyan, L. Malkhasyan, Z. Harutyunyan, L. Zubalova. Implementation of an acute stroke treatment program in Armenia: first-year experience with thrombolysis and thrombectomy. Abstract #2173, ESOWSO 2020, Vienna
L. Zubalova, L. Minasyan, L. Madoyan, O. Ezoyan, M. Balasanyan, Z. Baghdasaryan, D. Margaryan, D. Sahakyan, H. Simonyan, A. Petrosyan, N. Yeghiazaryan. Early neurological improvement and safety of acute ischemic stroke treatment in the elderly population,Vienna
M. Balasanyan, L. Minasyan, L. Madoyan, O. Ezoyan, L. Zubalova, D. Margaryan, Z. Baghdasaryan, A. Petrosyan, D. Sahakyan, N. Minasyan, N. Yeghiazaryan. Association of early neurological improvement and functional outcome after intravenous thrombolysis. 2020, Vienna
L. Zubalova, M. Balasanyan, G. Patrikyan, O. Ezoyan, L. Minasyan, L. Madoyan, D. Sahakyan, D. Margaryan, A. Petrosyan, N. Minasyan, Z. Baghdasaryan, M. Aghasaryan, N. Yeghiazaryan. Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on acute ischemic stroke care in a comprehensive stroke center in Armenia
Lina Zubalova, Greta Sahakyan, Yekaterina Hovhannisyan, Ruben Fanarjyan, Sevak Badalyan, David Sahakyan, Mikayel Grigoryan, Mikael Muratoglu, Manvel Aghasaryan, Viken Babikian, Nune Yeghiazaryan. INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSIS IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE: EARLY RESULTS FROM THE NATIONAL STROKE PROGRAM IN ARMENIA. Abstract # 1469, ESOC 2023, Munich, Germany
