Aynur Safiyeva

Aynur Safiyeva was born on March 31, 1974. She enrolled in Azerbaijan Medical University's treatment-prophylaxis faculty in 1991 and graduated with honors in 1997. She finished her internship at Malikov Hospital No. 6 in 1997–1998. She completed her post-graduate training experience at Tbilisi Central Hospital in Georgia in 1999. She studied general surgery in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, from 2004 to 2007. She completed ultrasound examination training at Saudi Arabia's Abu Arish Central Hospital in 2007. She specialized in colorectal surgery at Ankara University in Turkey in 2009, and GIS endoscopy at the same university in 2010. She finished her specialist training in colorectal surgery at the New St. Augustine Hospital in Modena, Italy, in 2012. In 2013, she completed an Anorectal Physiology course at the CAPA hospital in Istanbul, followed by a Colorectal Surgery specialization at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. She was trained in Multidimensional Approach Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury and Anorectal Ultrasound at Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 2015.[1][2]

In addition, Aynur Safiyeva finished the first part of the trauma and emergency surgery program in Salzburg, Austria in 2008, the second part in 2009, and the third part in 2011.

On April 12, 2022, she defended her scientific work on "Clinical significance of stem cells in colorectal polyps" in order to receive the scientific title of Doctor of Medical Sciences at Azerbaijan Medical University.[2]

On January 29, 2022, Aynur Safiyeva was awarded the jubilee medal of the Republic of Azerbaijan "30th anniversary of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1992–2022)".[3]

Aynur Safiyeva began her career as a surgeon at Malikov Baku Hospital No. 6 in 1998 and remained in that position until 2004. She continued her work in the Abu Arish Central Hospital in Saudi Arabia from that year until 2007. She served as a consultant and proctologist at Baku's Mediclub Clinic from 2007 until 2009. She later worked on rectal surgery at Ankara Medical University in Turkey in 2009, and lower and upper endoscopic operations in 2010. She worked on laparoscopic colorectal surgery at the New St. Augustine Hospital in Modena, Italy, in 2012, and on the physiology of the anal canal at the Medical Faculty of Istanbul University, Turkey, in 2013.

She has been working as a general surgeon at the Central Customs Hospital since 2009.