About me
I am an Associate Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, Marieb College of Health and Human Services. I earned a PhD in Health Sciences Research from University of North Carolina at Charlotte, MD from Tbilisi Medical Academy and completed Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. I have served as PAHO/WHO consultant (Washington, DC) and UNICEF National Consultant to the Parliament of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia) to implement strategic partnerships, initiatives and program development. I have authored studies published in the Archives of Surgery, Patient Education and Counseling, PLOS One, Open Heart, International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention, JMIR Formative Research and other peer-reviewed journals.