Sevda Jafarova

Sevda Jafarova was born on March 27, 1965, in Baku. She is married and has three children and a grandchild.

She graduated from Mikhail Mushfiq school with a gold medal in 1982. In 1988, she graduated with a diploma of honors from the Faculty of Pediatrics of Azerbaijan Medical University.

Later in 1988, she joined the Perinatology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Neonatology and Clinical Internship until 1990.

In 1997, she graduated with a Ph.D in the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics named after K. Y. Farajova.[1]

She started her career as an operational nurse in 1985 at the Baku Emergency Medical Hospital. In 1988, she moved to Russia and worked as a clinical intern at Central Perinatology Institute. Sevda Jafarova returned to Azerbaijan in 1990 when she was appointed as a child and adolescent health inspector at the Baku Main Health Department.

In 1992, she worked at the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital as a reanimatologist. Until 1999, she worked as a reanimatologist and senior researcher in the Newborn Reanimatology Department of the institute.

In 1998, she worked as a pediatrician in the MediClub Emergency Medical Service. At the time, she was the head of the Department of Neonatology at the Private Leyla Shikhlinskaya Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic.

In 2017, she was appointed Director-General of MediClub Emergency Medical Services. In 2018, she started to work as the senior advisor to the Corporative Division of the Republican Medical Diagnostic Center. And since March 2019, she is a medical director of Leyla Medical Center and a member of the board of directors.

In 2016, she was awarded the badge "Excellent Health" by the Ministry of Healthcare (Azerbaijan).[2]

In 2017, she was awarded the honorary diploma for her participation in the Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) program of the International Trade Administration.

• Jafarova S.Sh. State of osmoregulation in newborns with intracraneal hemorrhage. Abstractive book Third regional congress of pediatrics of central Asia and Turkey with international participation Almaty, September 23–27, 1996, page 186.
• Jafarova S.Sh. Osmolarity discrimination as a standard for severe conditions of newborns in the intercranial hemorrhage (international congress of pediatrics) 12–17 October 1996, page 842, Tegeran.
• Jafarova S.Sh. Disorders osmohomeostasis in the intercranial hemorrhage in newborns and method of its infusion correction (abstract book 4 regional congress of pediatric of Turkish speaking countries with international participation, September 21–25, 1997 Baku, page 122.
• Jafarova S.Sh. Osmoregulating function of the kidneys in newborns with intercranial hemorrhage, (abstract book 4 regional congress of pediatric of Turkish speaking countries with international participation), September 21–25, page 129.
• Jafarova S.Sh. Disorders of state of osmohomeostasis in premature newborns. Azerbaijan Medical journal, 1997 N 4, page 32–35.
• Jafarova S.Sh. Optimization of infusion therapy in newborns with intracranial hemorrhage. Abstract book science conference of pediatrics. Azerbaijan Republic. Page 30–32.
• Jafarova S.Sh. Ultrasound methods kidneys investigations in newborns. Abstract book science conference of pediatrics. Azerbaijan republic. Page 32–35.
• Jafarova S.Sh. Combination of clinical osmometric and neyrosonographic values as severity of pereventricular hemorrhage in newborns, Azerbaijan Medical Journal, 1997, N 5, page 32–35.