Jafarova Sevda Shirin gizi was born on March 27, 1965 in Baku, in a family of teacher. She graduated from the school named after Mikhail Mushfiq # 18 with a gold medal in 1982. In the period of 1982-1988, she studied at the Faculty of Pediatrics of Azerbaijan Medical University and graduated with a diploma of honors. She continued her education from 1988 to 1990 at the Perinatology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Neonatology and Clinical Internship. In 1994-1997, she was a PhD candidate at the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics named after K.Y.Farajova and successfully obtained the doctorate.
Career
She started her career at the Intensive Care Unit at the Baku Emergency Medical Hospital as an Operational Nurse in the period of 1985-1987. In the period of 1988-1990 she moved to Russia and worked as a clinical intern in the Intensive Care Unit of the Central Perinatology Institute. In connection with the need for staff, Sevda Jafarova returned to Azerbaijan and in the period of 1990-1992 she was appointed as a child and adolescent health inspector at the Baku Main Health Department. In the period of 1992-1994 she worked as a Reanimatologist at the Intensive Care Unit of the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital. During the years of 1994-1997, she was PhD candidate at the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics named after K.Y.Farajova. Until 1999 she worked as a Reanimatologist, Senior Researcher in the Newborn Reanimatology Department of the Institute. Then she stepped to the private health care sector in 1998-2004 and started to work as a pediatrician in the MediClub Emergency Medical Service. She was also the head of the Department of Neonatology at the Private Leyla Shikhlinskaya Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic. In 2017-2018, she was appointed Director General of MediClub Emergency Medical Services. In 2018, she started to work as the Senior Advisor to the Corporative Division of the Republican Medical Diagnostic Center. And since March 2019, she is a Medical Director of Leyla Medical Center and a member of the Board of Directors. She is married, has 3 children and a grandchild. She is fluent in the Azerbaijani, Russian and English languages.
International Education and Certificates
Sevda Jafarova has successfully represented her country and has been awarded various international certificates while addressing major international congresses focused on medicine in many countries around the globe. At the first time, she has attended III International Congress of Pediatricians of Central Asia and Turkey, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1996, at the International Congress of Pediatricians in Tehran, at the IV Regional Congress of Pediatric Societies of Turkic-speaking Countries, 1997, in the course "Advanced Life Support for Children" in Salzburg, in 2000, in Austria, at the IX Congress of Pediatricians in Moscow, in 2001, in the training course "Neuro-psychiatric problems in early childhood" in Haifa, Israel and has been awarded internationally diplomas and certificates.
Awards
In 2016, she was awarded the badge "Excellent Health" by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 2017, she was awarded the honorary diploma for her participation in the Special American Business Internship Training program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States of America.
International Trainer
After 2010, Sevda Jafarova has started to work as a trainer of international events after. For the first time in 2010-2012 she worked as a trainer in the MIMMS Natural Disaster Management System in Edinburgh, UK, at the 31st ESPID Symposium in Milan, in 2013, "EBRD, Leadership and Action, Finance and Advice for Women in Business, 2016 in and SABIT Hospital Management Practices Program in the United States, in 2017 “Public Health Organization and Management” in London, 2015-2018, and Master of Science in Health Management, since 2018, York st. John University and John Kennedy College.
Science articles
1.Jafarova S.Sh. State of osmoregulation in newborns with intracraneal hemorrhage. Abstractive book Third regional congress of pediatrics of central Asia and Turkey with international participation Almaty, September 23-27 1996, page 186. 2. Jafarova S.Sh. Osmolarity discrimination as a standard for severe conditions of newborns in the intercranial hemorrhage 12-17 october 1996, page 842, Tegeran. 3. Jafarova S.Sh. Disorders osmohomeostasis in the intercranial hemorrhage in newborns and method of its infusion correction, September 21-25, page 129. 5. Jafarova S.Sh. Disorders of state of osmohomeostasis in premature newborns. Azerbaijan Medical journal, 1997 N 4, page 32-35. 6. Jafarova S.Sh. Optimisation of infusion therapy in newborns with intracranial hemorrhage. Abstract book science conference of pediatrics. Azerbaijan Republic. Page 30-32. 7. Jafarova S.Sh. Ultrasound methods kidneys investigations in newborns. Abstract book science conference of pediatrics. Azerbaijan republic. Page 32-35. 8. Jafarova S.Sh. Combination of clinical osmometric and neyrosonographic values as severity of pereventricular hemorrhage in newborns, Azerbaijan Medical Journal, 1997, N 5, page 32-35.
