TIRANA, September 3/ATA/ The Media and Information Agency reported that Klodiana Spahiu is proposed for the position of Minister of Health and Social Welfare, in context of her commitment to more accessible healthcare and stronger social welfare.
Klodiana Spahiu graduated with a degree in General Medicine from the University of Tirana’s Faculty of Medicine in 1997. She then completed her residency in cardiology from 1998 to 2002 at the “Mother Teresa” University Hospital in Tirana. Over the years, she has advanced her expertise through extensive specialized training, including non-invasive cardiology (echocardiography, stress-ECG, and carotid Echo-Doppler) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart’s Agostino Gemelli Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Rome, Italy. In 2004, she completed postgraduate studies within the University of Tirana’s Department of Preclinical Studies. She later expanded into invasive cardiology in late 2005, training in cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography at Santa Chiara Hospital in Pisa, Italy. To complement her clinical expertise, she also earned a Professional Master’s degree in Health Management between 2012 and 2014.
Spahiu practiced as a physician in the First Cardiology Clinic at the University of Tirana. Between 2003 and 2009, she worked as a cardiologist in the pathology department at Durrës Hospital, where she was later appointed Hospital Director. Alongside her clinical work, she has extensive teaching experience. She served as a lecturer in the Department of Preclinical Studies at the University of Tirana from 2002 to 2003, and as an external physiology lecturer at UFO University in Tirana in 2006.Since 2008, she has served as an Associate Professor of Cardiology Practice at the Our Lady of Good Counsel University in Tirana. She holds a PhD in Medical Sciences.
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