Vice Rector for Medical Affairs
Tursunov Shermukhammadkhoja Lutfulloyevich
Vice Rector for Medical Affairs
General Information
Tursunov Shermukhammadkhoja Lutfulloevich was born on May 27, 1985, in the Bukhara district of the Bukhara region. In 2009, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Bukhara State Medical Institute named after Abu Ali ibn Sino.
From 2009 to 2011, he completed his residency in Cardiac Surgery at the A.N. Bakulev Research Institute in Moscow. He continued his education there from 2011 to 2014, completing a postgraduate program specializing in cardiac surgery.Between 2010 and 2015, he received a certificate in X-ray endovascular diagnostics and treatment from the State Budgetary Institution of Postgraduate Education, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
On December 19, 2014, he earned the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences from the Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery named after A.N. Bakulev. After this achievement, he pursued and completed a doctoral program in Cardiac Surgery at the same institute from 2014 to 2017.
From 2017 to 2023, he led the angiography and X-ray endovascular surgery department at the Bukhara Multidisciplinary Medical Center. During this period, he performed more than 6,000 surgeries, including the region’s first-ever cardiovascular stenting procedures and pacemaker implantations. He also carried out complex interventions on brain vessels and collaborated with international specialists in over 100 surgeries.
Since 2021, he has been serving as the Vice-Rector for Medical Affairs at the Bukhara State Medical Institute.
Additional Responsibilities
Alongside his vice-rector duties, Shermukhammadkhoja Lutfulloevich also works as the chief physician of the Bukhara State Medical Institute Clinic named after Abu Ali ibn Sino. The clinic was officially registered and began operations on March 27, 2024.
The clinic features departments for cerebrovascular pathology (neurology), therapy, cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, trauma and orthopedics, reconstructive surgery (ENT), and reproductive medicine (obstetrics and gynecology). The polyclinic on the first floor provides essential medical services to patients.
The cardiac surgery department has begun full operations, and since August 2023, laparoscopic surgeries have been conducted in the surgical department. New neurosurgical procedures have also been introduced, including surgeries for brain tumors, spinal cord hernias, congenital defects, and endoscopic removal of pituitary adenomas.
For the 2024–2025 academic year, the institute plans to collaborate with 15 scientific centers across 24 scientific fields, as well as with 12 district and 8 regional health departments in 44 areas of clinical practice.
Within the institute’s territory, land has been allocated to expand the cultivation of non-traditional crops based on local soil and climate conditions. This initiative supports the development of folk medicine and involves cooperation with scientific and research institutes to create guidelines for cultivating medicinal plants. Additionally, an area near the new campus has been designated for growing 17 types of medicinal plants to support future pharmaceutical production.
Main Responsibilities of the Vice-Rector for Medical Affairs
- Monitoring the volume and quality of medical work performed by the clinic’s departments.
- Ensuring collaboration with clinical bases and preparing methodological recommendations to improve medical processes.
- Implementing directives from higher authorities, decisions of the Academic Council, and orders from the rector related to medical activities.
Cardio surgery room of the clinic
Opening ceremony of the clinic
