Ilgar Abulfaz oglu Gasimov

He was born on April 12, 1965, in Baku. He is a Doctor of Medical Sciences.

In 1989–1990, he completed an internship in the specialty of “Traumatology and Orthopaedics” at the Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, then began working at the same institute as a junior research fellow. In 2000–2004, he worked as a senior research fellow in the Department of Arthroplasty and Endoprosthetics of Large Joints at the Priorov Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics in Moscow; in 2004–2006, he was a research fellow at the Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics of the Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2006–2017, he worked at several private clinics in Baku.

Since August 17, 2017, he has been the director of the Azerbaijan Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, and since 2019, the head of the “Traumatology and Orthopaedics” Department of the Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute for Doctors named after Aziz Aliyev. By Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated February 3, 2022, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health.

In 1982, he entered the Faculty of General Medicine of the Azerbaijan Medical Institute and graduated in 1988. In 1994, he obtained the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences at the Central Research Institute of Traumatology named after Priorov in Moscow; in 1996–2000, he pursued doctoral studies at the same institute and obtained the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences.