Zurab Kheladze was born in 1952, graduated from Ozurgeti First High School and Tbilisi State Medical Institute Faculty of Medicine with honors. In 1975-1978 he studied in clinical residency at the Department of Anesthesiology-Reanimatology of the same institute. His protection by the commission and the protection materials were classified. He has completed internships in Moscow (1978, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989), Kiev (1990, 1891), Rome (1991), New York (1992), Washington (1992). Petersburg (1994), Cairo (2005), Tokyo (2014) and other leading clinics of critical medicine, Zurab Kheladze's medical activities include being a doctor of the resuscitation-intensive care department (1978) and the head of the critical medicine department of the Central Clinical Hospital named after Academician N. Kipshidze (2001), as well as working as the head of the Resuscitation Service of the Anti-Sepsis Center of the Republic named after Academician V. Bochorishvili (1983). He also managed the treatment process of the victims of the April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi (1989) and the wounded warriors during the military conflicts for the territorial integrity of Georgia at the Central Military in the hospital (1992), he founded the International Center for Disaster Medicine (1991), which was later reorganized into the Institute of Critical Medicine of Georgia (1994), and he currently works as the director of this organization. He was also a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Medical Center named after Academician O. Ghudushauri Member (2001), chief specialist (2001) and expert (2015-present) of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Protection of Georgia. In general, since 1975, more than 75,000 patients have been treated by him, including the absolute majority of state and public figures of the country. Most of them were in a critical condition in recent years. Zurab Kheladze's pedagogical activity includes working as an assistant (1983), associate professor (1988), professor (1994) and head of the department (1994) at Tbilisi State Medical Institute "Anesthesiology-Reanimatology". In 2001-2016, he was also the head of the department of anesthesiology, resuscitation and disaster medicine of the same institute (university), and the head of the department of critical medicine. 2001) and head of continuing medical education courses (2003). in critical medicine. In general, the absolute majority of doctors working in the critical medicine service of Georgia, whose number is more than 700, was trained by him. Zurab Kheladze's scientific activity includes working as a junior scientific employee (1978), senior scientific employee (1988) and head of the laboratory (1988) of the intensive care laboratory of the Anesthesiology-Reanimatology Department of the Tbilisi State Medical Institute. He was also a member of the Reanimatology Problem Commission of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Soviet Union (1988) and the coordinator of the scientific activities of young reanimatologists (1988), the chairman of the Dissertation Scientific Council of Anesthesiology-Reanimatology of the Tbilisi State Medical Institute (1989), the Tbilisi Annual International Symposium "Critical Care & Chairman of "Catastrophe Medicine" (from 1990 to the present) and Chairman of the Dissertation Board of the Institute of Critical Medicine of Georgia (from 1994 to the present), he is also a founding member and learned secretary of the Georgian Academy of Medical Sciences (1994), as well as the vice-president of the same academy (from 1995 to the present). Editor of the refereed and peer-reviewed scientific journal "Critical Care & Catastrophe Medicine" (from 2005 to present), member of the editorial board of the journal "Messenger of Surgery of Georgia". (from 2017 to the present) and the chairman of the first workshop of the world inter-academic cooperation for health (2017). 15 candidate and doctoral theses have been defended under his guidance. He has participated in the work of about 100 congresses, conferences and other scientific events. He is the author of 801 scientific works, 6 monographs, 7 manuals and 31 inventions, patents, rational proposals and methodical recommendations, which he reads daily in 156 countries of the world with references confirmed by the Internet. 57 more individuals. Zurab Kheladze's expert activities include working as an invited member of the Health Protection Legislative Commission of the Parliament of Georgia (1996). He was also the chairman of the State Medical Standards Compilation Commission in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (1996). A member of the National Bioethics Commission (1997), he also prepared the Decree of the President of Georgia N100 (2001) "On the Criteria of Human Brain Death" (2000). He also systematically conducts expert evaluations of the treatment of critically ill patients in Georgia and other countries. Zurab Kheladze's activities in professional organizations include founding the Georgian Association of Disaster and Critical Care Medicine and serving as its president (from 1992 to the present). He is also a member of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care Associations, a member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and a founding member of the World Global Alliance for Sepsis. He was also the regional head of the international projects "ICONON" (2015) and "EPIC-3" (2017) produced under the auspices of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care Associations, as well as the regional head of the "Pneumonia Inspire" project (2016) produced under the auspices of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. He is considered one of the founders of the critical care service.