Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences

Vice President, Mongolian Academy of Medical Sciences, Mongolia

Professor Oidov Baatarkhuu graduated from the Mongolian National Medical University.  He has received his PhD degree at the Postgraduate School, Health Sciences University of Mongolia.  He is currently Professor of Medicine, Dean, School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences and General Expert on Infectious Diseases of Ministry of Health, Mongolia.

He has completed his postdoctoral Fellowship in Hepatology at the Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea between 2007-2008. He did second overseas Clinical Research Fellowship in Hepatology at the Department of Internal Medicine III, AKH Hospital and University of Vienna, Austria in 2012.   Also in 2014 he has completed as a Clinical Research Fellow in Hepatology at the Storr Liver Center, Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Australia. 

He has also been Visiting Professors at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia in 2014, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea in 2018 and Department of Internal Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary University, Calgary, Canada in 2019.

Professor O.Baatarkhuu was Past Executive Council Member of APASL, Member of CEVHAP, and President of the Mongolian Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases, Executive Director of the Mongolian Infectious Diseases Physicians, and Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the APASL-STC 2012 in Mongolia and President for the APASL-STC 2017 in Mongolia.

He is a key investigator in more than 30 international and national trials on antiviral treatment of chronic hepatitis B, C and HCC. He has been extensively involved in research in the fields of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma and he is currently working on the natural history of hepatitis B and D in Mongolia.

Professor O.Baatarkhuu has published more than 500 international and local papers. He also has spoken nationally and internationally on viral hepatitis and chronic liver diseases including hepatocellular carcinoma.