Professor Bekbolat Zholdin

Professor Bekbolat Zholdin was born on April 16, 1950, in the Baiganin district of the Aktobe region. After graduating from Aktobe State Medical Institute in 1972, since 1979, he has been a faculty member at West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, where he progressed through academic ranks from Assistant and Associate Professor to Dean of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education (2002) and Head of the Department (2001-2015). He is currently a Professor at the Department of Internal Diseases No. 2. In 1998, he defended his PhD dissertation in Moscow. Professor Zholdin has been the Principal Investigator in major international research projects, including: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, EUROASPIRE V, ESC EORP Heart Failure III Registry, EUROASPIRE VI. His H-index is 11, and he is ranked among the top 1000 scientists in Kazakhstan