SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MEDICINE
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:in Surgery and Transplantology
Position:Professor





After the graduation of medical studies in 2003 Dr. Koba Shanava has been working as a lecturer at the Department of Normal Anatomy, Tbilisi Medical Academy and Department of Clinical anatomy, Tbilisi State Medical University for five years. In 2008-2010 years Dr. Shanava worked as a PhD researcher at the Department of Surgical Research and Techniques, Pecs University, Faculty of Medicine (Hungary).
In 2012 – 2015 years he worked as a general surgeon at N. Kipshidze`s Central University Hospital. From 2015-till 2019 Dr. Shanava occupied the positions of Head of the Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation at Aversi Clinic and Innova Medical Center. Since 2019- Dr. Koba Shanava is a Head of Department of Surgery and Transplantation, at Iv. Bokeria Tbilisi Referral Hospital.
The international clinical experience of Dr. Shanava include: visiting doctor at the Department of Surgery, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany (2011), visitor doctor at the Hôpital Paul-Brousse Center of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Paris, France (2013), international scholarship program, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation (2014). Koba Shanava has defended doctoral disertation in the field of experimental laparascopy. He is a President of Georgian Society of Transplantologists

Scientific interests / research interests

Experimental and translational medicine;
Liver transplantation;
Laparascopic surgery.

⦁ Featured publications
⦁ Protective effects of postconditioning in transvaginally created pneumoperitoneum. Shanava K, Javor S, Kerkadze V, Abiatari I, Weber G. Exp Ther Med. 2020 Jun;19(6):3861-3866. doi: 10.3892/etm.2020.8616. Epub 2020 Mar 19.
⦁ Long-term survival in a patient with low-level inflammatory markers and liver metastasis, converted resectable by TACE. Mizandari M, Paksashvili N, Kikodze N, Azrumelashvili T, Pantsulaia I, Shanava K, Janikashvili N, Chikovani T. Immunotherapy. 2017 Oct;9(13):1067-1069. doi: 10.2217/imt-2017-0069.
⦁ An isolated venous sac as a novel site for cell therapy in diabetes mellitus. Kakabadze Z, Shanava K, Ricordi C, Shapiro AM, Gupta S, Berishvili E. Transplantation. 2012 Aug 27;94(4):319-24. doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31825e4a83.
⦁ Transgastric small bowel resection by using hybrid technique — Experimental study. K. shanava1, Sz. Horváth1, F. Karl-Hermann2, Sz. Jávor1, I. Takács1, B. Balatonyi1, S. Ferencz, A. Ferencz, E. Rőth, György Wéber. Interventional Medicine & Applied Science, 2010 Vol. 2 (3), pp. 126–130.
⦁ Preconditioning is a method that may reduce the negative side-effect of pneumoperitoneum. Szaniszló Z. Jávor, K. Shanava, E. Hocsák, M. Kürthy, J. Lantos, B. Borsiczky, I. Takács, Sz. Horváth, B. Balatonyi, S. Ferencz, A. Ferencz, E. Rőth, Gy. Wéber. Interventional Medicine & Applied Science, 2010 Vol. 2 (3), pp. 126–130.
⦁ Examination of protective effect of ischemic postconditioning after small bowel autotransplantation. Ferencz A, Takács I, Horváth S, Ferencz S, Jávor S, Fekecs T, Shanava K, Balatonyi B, Wéber G. Transplant Proc. 2010 Jul-Aug;42(6):2287-9.

Current Courses

Course Catalog

General Surgery I (ENG)

 

Surgery II (ENG); Doctoral Seminar II