Alekser
medical researcher oncologist surgeon
Alesker Alekper oglu Abdullayev was born on September 1, 1950, in Baku, Azerbaijan, into a family of physicians. His early family environment was closely connected with medicine, and he pursued medical education and a professional career in surgery and oncology.
Abdullayev completed secondary school in Baku in 1968 and entered the лечебно-профилактический faculty of the Azerbaijan Medical Institute named after N. N. Narimanov. He graduated in 1974. He subsequently undertook postgraduate training at the Institute of Clinical Oncology of the All-Union Oncology Scientific Center in Moscow and in 1985 defended his candidate dissertation on gastric-reservoir anastomoses in the surgical treatment of gastric cancer. In 2006 he defended his doctoral dissertation on postoperative disease in patients with cancer of the digestive system and its primary surgical prevention.
After graduating from medical school in 1974, Abdullayev worked as a surgeon at the emergency medical hospital in Sumgait until 1982. He then completed postgraduate training in clinical oncology in Moscow. In 1985 he joined the surgical department of the Azerbaijan Research Institute of Radiology, Radiology and Oncology in Baku, an institution later reorganized as the National Center of Oncology. He spent the next 32 years in the department, which subsequently became the Center's department of abdominal oncology, and became a senior research fellow and a recognized surgeon-oncologist. His clinical and scientific work focused particularly on reconstructive surgery and the surgical treatment of cancers of the stomach and digestive system. In 1994 he received the academic title of associate professor. At the National Center of Oncology he also served on the Center's Academic Council and contributed to the editorial work of the Azerbaijan Journal of Oncology until his death in 2017.
Conducted long-term clinical and scientific research in abdominal and reconstructive oncology surgery, particularly in the surgical treatment of cancers of the stomach and digestive system.
Authored more than 200 published scientific works, two monographs, methodological recommendations, and patents.
Prepared two PhD-level medical researchers.
(Doctoral dissertation in medical sciences on postoperativ...)
2006(Candidate dissertation in medical sciences on gastric-res...)
1985Abdullayev was a member of the Academic Council of the National Center of Oncology and served on the editorial board of the Azerbaijan Journal of Oncology. These roles accompanied his clinical and research work in the Center's abdominal oncology service.
Colleagues described Abdullayev as a considerate and tactful physician who found encouraging words for patients. He was also remembered as a mentor who devoted substantial effort to educating younger specialists.
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Colleagues remembered Abdullayev as a considerate and tactful physician, a supportive mentor to younger specialists, and a respected surgeon whose professional conduct earned the lasting esteem of patients and fellow doctors.
Abdullayev was born into a family of physicians. His documented family connections include his mother, Rafiga Gulu, his father, Alekper Mukhtar, his wife, Gulchokhra Ali, and his children, Mukhtar Alesker and Seymur Alesker.
