Head of Medical Quality Standards Department
Shahla Ismaylova, MD
Public Health and Reforms Center of the Ministry of Health
Dr Shahla Ismaylova was born in Baku in 1965. She graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical University in 1988 and worked as a paediatrician at Baku City United Children’s Hospital 5 until 2008.
In 2008 she joined the Public Health and Reforms Center of the Ministry of Health as doctor-methodologist of the Medicine Quality Standards Department. In 2012 she was promoted to head of department, where she leads work on development of clinical protocols and practice guidelines. She has taken part in postgraduate programmes including family physician training at Hacettepe University, childhood diseases with WHO, and evidence-based medicine with the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan.