Maka Chipashvili

Education

1998 – Graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, The Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Specialized in the field of Biomedical Ecological Genetics, Tbilisi, Georgia

2002 – Medical Faculty, E. Pipia Tbilisi Medical Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia
2004 – Educational Course at Reproductive Health, UNFPA Educational Courses, Tbilisi, Georgia
2006 – Course at Clinical Teratology, International Perinatal Medical Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
2006 – Training of trainers course on WHO Orientation Programme “Adolescent Health” for Healthcare Providers, UNFPA, Tbilisi, Georgia
2009 – Actual problems of pediatric endocrinology- growth and sex development diagnostics- contemporary methods of diagnostics and treatment, Tbilisi, Georgia
2009 – “Short course of Reproductive Health on Andrology Issues”, UNFPA, Tbilisi
2011 – Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Systematic Reviews and Health Technology Assessments. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 – Training of trainers EuTEACH – training of trainers workshop youth and reproductive health (SRH), communication skills and healthy life-style, Univerersité de Lausanne, UNFPA, NCDC, EuTEACH, Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 – International workshop “Prenatal screening”, Berlin, Germany
2018 – Cytogenomics Workshop and User Group Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 – Expanded NIPT that includes conditions other than trisomies 13, 18, and 21 should be offered, International Society of Prenatal Diagnostics
2021 – Genetic counseling, International Society of Prenatal Diagnostics
2021 – Misconceptions in PGT, Coopersurgical, Cell free (cf)DNA screening for Down syndrome in multiple pregnancies, International Society of Prenatal Diagnostics
2021 – 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, The Fetal Medicine Foundation
2021 – Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT), The Fetal Medicine Foundation

Scientific activity

Author of 1 monograph – Congenital disorders of sex development”
3 guidelines (Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in Adolescents, Family Planning, Prevention of Breast and Cervical Cancer)
1 protocol (Sex development disorders in female phenotype patients)
31 scientific works
25 meeting abstracts

Work experience

2008 – till now – Clinical Geneticist, Prenatal Diagnostic Centre, Association “Perinatology”, State program of Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia- “Early diagnostics of congenital anomalies”
2008- till now- Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Tbilisi State University
2006-till now – Clinical Geneticist, Zhordania Institute of Human Reproduction, Tbilisi, Georgia
2006-2008- Project coordinator and trainer, “Training of medical personnel in youth friendly reproductive healthcare services”, UNFPA/EU co-founded project RHIYC

Services

Genetic counseling

Language skills

Russian, English