Karlen G. Adamyan

Adamyan was born on 19 January 1937. He graduated from Yerevan State Medical Institute in 1959. From 1962 to 1965 he was a postgraduate student at the Institute of Cardiology and Heart Surgery of Ministry of Health of the ASSR, after which he started working for the same institute. In 1972–1982 he transferred to the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease department. In 1979, he became the director of Yerevan Research Institute of Cardiology. In 1995, he became the Head of the Chair of Clinical Cardiology of the National Institute of Health, as well as filled the position of Chief Cardiologist at the Ministry of Health of Armenia (1979–2001). Adamyan died on 28 February 2026, at the age of 89. == Awards and recognitions ==

• Medal after Mkhitar Heratsi, • Order of Friendship of nations, gold medal after Evgeniy Chazov (2007), • Gold anniversary medal of National Health Institute of Armenia (2007), • Gold medal of meria of Yerevan city administration (2011), • Special diploma of presidium of Russian Society of Cardiology for development of cardiology (one of the tree diplomas with Yevgeniy Chazov and Rafael Oganov). • State premium of the Armenian SSR in sphere of science and technics (1988). ==References==