Background
Armen Bunyatyan was born on September 30, 1930 in Yerevan into a family of civil servants.
Armen Bunyatyan was born on September 30, 1930 in Yerevan into a family of civil servants.
In 1959 Armen Bunyatyan defended his candidate thesis and in 1965 he defended his doctorate thesis on subject "Hypothernal perfusion and anaesthesiology in surgery of congential and acquired heart diseases".
From 1960 Armen Bunyatyan has worked as anesthesiologist in the position of junior research worker in the laboratory of anaesthesiology at the department of hospital surgery at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenev. In 1963 during three months he worked in university hospitals of London, Cardiff and Liverpool, of which one month at the department of anesthesiology at the Royal College of Surgeons. From 1968 Armen Bunyatyan has been the head of the department of anesthesiology of the Russian Scientific Center of Surgery of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. The main period of life and creative activity of Armen Bunyatyan is connected with this institute, there he worked his way of from the junior research worker to the head of the department of anesthesiology.
From 1965 to 1991 Armen Bunyatyan was the chief anaesthesiologist of the Ministry of Health of the USSR.
A. Bunyatyan is an academic of the Russian Academy of Medical Science, the European Academy of Anaesthesiology, corresponding member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in the USA, an honorary member of scientific societies of anesthesiologists of Bulgaria, Hungry, Romania, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Poland, Colombia, Cuba, Finland, a member of the Council of representatives of the European Association of cardiothoracic anesthesiologists, a member of the World Society of Intensive Therapy, a member of editorial board of three foreign anesthesiology magazines: "Clinical anasthesia" (USA), "Anasthesiologie und Intensivmedizin" (Germany), "Anästhesie und Reanimation" (Germany).
Armen Bunyatyan is a full member of the Royal College of Anesthetists of England and the Faculty of the Royal College of Surgery of Ireland.