Davit Sergeenko დავით სერგეენკო |
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Minister of Health, Labor, and Social Affairs | |
Assumed office 25 October 2012 |
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Prime Minister |
Bidzina Ivanishvili Irakli Garibashvili Giorgi Kvirikashvili |
Preceded by | Zurab Tchiaberashvili |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 September 1963 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (Now Georgia) |
Spouse(s) | Leila Migriauli |
Children | Two daughters |
Alma mater |
Tbilisi State Medical Institute Moscow Institute for Continued Medical Education |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Georgia |
Service/branch | Medical Service, Georgian Air Force |
Years of service | 1992–1993 |
Davit Sergeenko (Georgian: დავით სერგეენკო; born 25 September 1963) is a Georgian physician and healthcare administrator, serving as Georgia's Minister of Health, Labor, and Social Affairs since 25 October 2012.
Sergeenko was born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia in 1963. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Medical Institute as a pediatrician in 1987 and the Moscow Institute for Continued Medical Education as an intensive care specialist in 1991. Returning to Georgia, he practiced neonatology in Sukhumi and Rustavi from 1987 to 1992. He then served in the Georgian Armed Forces as a physician for an air force regiment from 1992 to 1993 and as a chief of medical service at the State Department of Sports from 1995 to 1997. He worked as an ICU physician at the Jo Ann Medical Center in Tbilisi from 1997 to 2006 and a medical services manager at the MediClub-Georgia clinic from 2002 to 2006. In 2006, he became Director General of a medical center in the provincial town of Sachkhere, funded by the billionaire tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Sachkhere native who had amassed his wealth in Russia in the 1990s.
After Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream coalition won the October 2012 parliamentary election and subsequently formed the new government, Sergeenko was made Minister of Health, Labor, and Social Affairs in the cabinets of Ivanishvili and of his protégé and successor, Irakli Garibashvili.