Hakob Sahak Hovakimyan (Armenian: Հակոբ Սահակի Հովակիմյան), better known as Hrayr Hovakimyan (Armenian: Հրայր Հովակիմյան), is an Armenian doctor and cardiac surgeon who was awarded the title of National Hero of Armenia.
[1] Hovakimyan graduated from the Medical Faculty at the University of Aleppo in 1997, then spent several years training in the United States.
He worked at Beckman University in New York from 1977 to 1984; Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Oregon (cardiopulmonary surgery direction) from 1984 to 1988; and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1988 to 1989.
[citation needed] In 1990, Hovakimyan participated in the creation of the Biotronic EDP-30 pulse generator.
He has been Chief Cardiac Surgeon of the Nork-Marash Medical Center and throughout his career has trained a large number of Armenian doctors in the field of cardiac surgery.