Medical Doctor Degree from Kazakh National Medical University named by S.D.Asfendiyarov, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2008)
Internship in Internal Medicine, Kazakh National Medical University named by S.D.Asfendiyarov, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2009)
Physician, Research assistant, Scientific Research Institute of Cardiology and Internal Diseases, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2009)
Physician, Educational and Medical Center of Kazakh National Medical University named by S.D.Asfendiyarov, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2010)
Intensive English school, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (2011-2012)
Master of Science degree in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2012-2014)
Hepatology specialist, Transplant department, JSC National Research Center for Oncology And Transplantology, Astana, Kazakhstan (since July, 2014)

Recent postgraduate education courses:

• Training in Hepatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan (2009). Main interests: chronic viral infections, the role IL-28B polymorphism in HCV infection, the new therapeutic agents in HCV treatment, chronic liver diseases,

• Training in Radiation Oncology in Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Nagasaki Medical University, Japan (2010). Main interests: radiation oncology, liver cancer: treatment options including RFA, TACE, liver transplantation

• The 64th American Association for study of liver diseases, The Liver meeting 2013, “Postgraduate course: A new era of Diagnostics Therapeutics and Intervention in Hepatology, Washington DC, USA, 2013

• Training in Gastroenterology with Nutrition course, Kazakh Medical University of Postgraduate Education, Almaty, Kazakhstan (August – November, 2014)

• Almaty Hepatology meeting linked with EASL, Postgraduate course in Hepatology and Masterclass in Liver fibrosis, Almaty, September 2014

• The 1st Turkic World Transplant Society meeting, Postgraduate course, Astana, May 2015.

• Multicenter Hepatectomy Workshop, Seoul National University Hospital,  South Korea, Seoul, June 2015

Travel awards:

– Masterclass in Gastrointestinal Oncology, European society of Oncology, Vienna, Austria (January, 2015).

– The Liver week – 2015, South Korea with oral-poster presentation:  “Outcomes and Survival: A single center analysis of Liver Transplantation Program” (May, 2015)

Memberships:

The Turkic World Transplantation Society member from 2015, February

Scientific, educational and practical activities are connected with:

a) Clinical Gastroenterology/Hepatology
b) End stage liver diseases
c) Liver transplantation/Liver regeneration
d) Immunosuppression
e) Chronic viral infections HBV, HDV, HCV
f) Hepatocellular carcinoma

Honors:

–    The best Graduate of Kazakh National Medical University named by S.D.Asfendiyarov (2008)
–   Graduated with Honors Kazakh National Medical University named by S.D.Asfendiyarov (2008)
– “Bolashak” Presidential scholarship recipient in 2010

1. Kurmanova, G.M., Sadykova, S.S., Ashimkhanova, A.A. (2009) Comparative study of chronic viral hepatitis treatment with IFN-a and IL-2. Vestnik KazNMU 2:121-24

2. Nersesov, A.V., Izatullayev, Y.A, Palgova, L.K, Oshakpayev, K.P, Dzhumabayaeva A.E, Ashimkhanova (Abadullaeva) A.A, Ilyassova, A.A, Raissova A.M (2010) Clinical peculiarities of HDV infection in Kazakhstan. The annual meeting of European Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey

3. Kurmanova, G.M., Sadykova, S.S., Ashimkhanova, A.A. (2010). The new therapeutic agents in HCV treatment. Journal of Therapy, the publication related to the Annual Gastroenterology Week, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2010.

4. Aiymkul Ashimkhanova, Yue Chen (2013) Humoral Immune response during HCV infection, IDM department Annual Research Day, University of Pittsburgh Abstract book, p2.

5. Tokan Sultanaliyev, Assan Zhexembayev, Adilbek Mukazhanov, Gani Kuttymuratov, Zhannat Spatayev, Kakharman Yesmembetov, Aiymkul Ashimkhanova. Results of liver transplantation in a newly started program. Experimental and Clinical Transplantation, V13, s-2, May 2015.