DAVID MATIASHVILI

Present Position

• Senior Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery 01.09.2025 – Present Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Perth Children’s Hospital

Education

• University of Bergamo / Milano-Bicocca – 2022 Master’s Degree (MSc) – Cardiology and Techniques Applied to Cardiac Surgery

• Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Medicine – 2019

Postgraduate Training

• Perth Children’s Hospital – Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship 01.09.2025 – Present, Perth, Australia

• Jerarsi Clinic – Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship 25.03.2024 – 30.09.2024, Tbilisi, Georgia

• Dolnośląskie Centrum Chorob Serca, MEDINET Sp. z o.o. – Adult and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship 17.04.2023 – 02.02.2024, Wroclaw, Poland

• Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital – Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship 01.11.2021 – 31.10.2022, Rome, Italy

• Tbilisi State Medical University / Chapidze Emergency Cardiology Center – Cardiac Surgery Residency 01.03.2020 – 30.04.2025, Tbilisi, Georgia

Early Surgical Electives and Observerships (2012–2019)

• Short-term electives and observerships in general and cardiac surgery:

  • Georgia (EVEX Medical Corporation, Helsicore Clinic)

  • Lithuania (Klaipeda Seamans University Hospital)

  • Germany (Brandenburg Heart Center)

  • USA (University of Florida Jacksonville, UF Health)

Surgical Certification

• Georgian Board of Cardiac Surgery – 2025

Certifications

• ECFMG (Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates) – 09.02.2021

Examinations (USMLE)

• Step 3 – Score 211 (2026)

• Step 2 – Score 239 (2019)

• Step 1 – Score 238 (2017)