Georgi Chaltikyan, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Digital Health, Global and International Health Care at European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI), a branch of Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT-ECRI) in Bavaria, Germany, and Founding President of Armenian Association of Digital Health (AADH). 

A graduate of the Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia, he has been trained as a general surgeon and spent about 20 years in clinical practice in general and laparoscopic surgery. He has extensive experience in healthcare education, research, and management. From 2001 to 2009 he served as an Associate Professor of Surgery at Yerevan State Medical University. In 2009-2010 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Keck School of Medicine, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. From 2010 to 2015 he worked in private surgical practice at a large multi-profile hospital. He has more than 12 years of work experience in the field of Digital Health. As the founding president of the NGO Armenian Association of Digital Health, he has been instrumental in the design and implementation of a number of successful Digital Health projects with international participation.

Prof. Chaltikyan joined the faculty at ECRI at its launch in 2015; he is the program head of Master of Digital Health (MDH) and is responsible for other study courses in healthcare and Digital Health. He also leads international collaborative projects and programs, such as DIT-ECRI’s institutional membership in and partnership with such global organizations as HIMSS. He has publications on different aspects of Digital Health, is involved in several research and development projects in the field, and is a keynote speaker at international conferences. His main research focus is on Global Digital Health and Digital Health Education. Since 2019 he is a member of the WHO Digital Health Roster of Experts. He is a co-founder and head of the large-scale Armenian Digital Health Initiative.