Professor Ivane Chkhaidze, MD, PhD, DMSc is a head of the Pediatrics department of Tbilisi State Medical University, Medical director of the iashvili Central Children's Hospital and Chairman of the Board of the Georgian Respiratory Association. His main area of ​​medical and scientific interests is pediatric respiratory medicine.

Dr. Ivane Chkhaidze is the head of the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG), a member of the Maternal and Child Health Coordinating Council of the Ministry of Health of Georgia, a member of the National Council of Clinical Practice Recommendations (Guidelines), Member of the National Council of the Doctors Professional Development, member of the Accreditation Council of Higher Education Programs of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.

He is also a Member at Large of the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP), member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS), member of the editorial board of the Polish (Advances in Respiratory Medicine), Serbian (Preventivna Pedijatrija), Greek (PNEUMON), Ukrainian (Астма та алергия) medical journals.

He has published 256 scientific works. In 2015, he was awarded the Georgian National Prize in Medicine.