GTU Students Will Receive Eye Disease Treatment and Vision Correction at the “Akhali Mzera” Clinic With Certain Benefits

Students and academic staff with active status at the Georgian Technical University will receive eye disease treatment, medical research, and vision correction at the “Akhali Mzera” ophthalmology clinic with certain benefits.

The agreement between the parties was signed by the Rector of the Georgian Technical University, Academician David Gurgenidze, and the General Director of the “Akhali Mzera” clinic, Professor Merab Dvali, with the signing of a cooperation memorandum.

The document also provides for the gradual deepening of cooperation, the implementation of joint research and educational projects or events, and mutual support in the training of qualified personnel.

Rector and Academician David Gurgenidze thanked the founder and general director of the clinic “Akhali Mzera” for supporting the mutually beneficial initiative.

According to the rector, ophthalmology, like other areas of medicine, is developing rapidly and is influenced by accelerated technological progress and innovations. Doctors, biomedical engineers, physicists, specialists in chemical technology, informatics, and other engineering fields, as well as scientists-researchers, are actively involved in this field.

 “It is gratifying that the Georgian Technical University is the first among the universities operating in Georgia to sign a memorandum of this type with a leading medical institution.

The document envisages the establishment of a special collaboration between our university community and students, on the one hand, and the clinic founded by a prominent representative of the medical community, the famous ophthalmologist, Professor Merab Dvali, and on the other, which will primarily ensure that students with active status and, at the next stage, professors and teachers receive certain benefits for various eye diseases, related medical research and vision correction.

This is not a business agreement – this is just the beginning of a partnership with the university, which we are sure will gradually deepen and expand.

Georgian Technical University is the first engineering and technological higher school in Transcaucasia, where Georgian and English language biomedical engineering educational programs operate exclusively. 

It should be noted that the English-language biomedical engineering program has international American ABET accreditation, and we are currently working to obtain ABET accreditation for the Georgian-language program.

Studying in an internationally accredited program and, accordingly, receiving an internationally recognized diploma brings success to our graduates not only in the scientific arena but also in the direction of decent employment. Our students and graduates successfully participate in monitoring biomedical engineering and also create new devices themselves, thereby contributing to the development of medical engineering. We can consider the memorandum with “Akhali Mzera” as the beginning of a new relationship between engineering fields and medicine, and in a specific case, ophthalmology. This collaboration, based on the principle of mutual understanding, will positively, again and again, affect the health and professional development of students,” noted David Gurgenidze.

As the founder and general director of the ophthalmology clinic, Professor Merab Dvali, noted, “Akhali Mzera” undertakes to take care of improving the vision of students and academic staff of the Georgian Technical University, to conduct appropriate research and offer modern methods of vision correction, including excimer laser correction, with the involvement of the clinic’s highly professional ophthalmologists and the use of the latest equipment.

Merab Dvali thanked the rector of the Georgian Technical University, Academician David Gurgenidze, and the university administration for supporting the initiative and expressing confidence.

According to Merab Dvali, the cooperation between the clinic “Akhali Mzera” and the Georgian Technical University is attractive in many ways. There is a particular interest in attracting engineering specialists, in particular highly qualified biomedical engineers, to the ophthalmology clinic, who will be ready to share their knowledge and experience with doctors. 

The President of the University Supervisory Board Zurab Gudavadze, Vice-Rectors Tamar Tsereteli and Tamar Lominadze, students, and the representatives of the university administration and the ophthalmology clinic “Akhali Mzera” attended the signing of the memorandum.