The President Of Latvia
Valdis Zatlers
Born in Riga, Latvia on March 22, 1955, President Valdis Zatlers went to Riga Secondary School in Latvia and later studied specialty of physician at Riga University of Medicine. He then undertook university studies at Yale & Syracuse University in USA in 1991.
He has served as a medical service officer in 1996 and worked as a traumatologist – orthopedist at Riga Hospital and was the director and board chairman, Hospital of Traumatology & Orthopaedics from 1998 to 2004. He was a coordinator from the Latvian side in a Swiss Confederation Assistance Project.
International professional activities include lectures on knee joint end prosthetics and bone tissue transplantation in Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Russia from 2004 to 2007.
He was a participant of the international research on knee joint end prosthetics in 2002 and member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, knee surgery and orthopedic sports medicine (ISACOS) from 1993 to date.
He was elected president of the Republic of Latvia on July 8, 2007, and Board Member of the Latvian Popular Front. He was the recipient of Award for Three-Star Order and Fourth Class from International Arthroscopy Association (IAA) for the largest contribution in development of arthroscopy in emerging countries.
