Certified console surgeon with da Vinci S system, Oncology, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology
MedicalUniversity – Pleven, 1 Sv. Kliment Ohridski Str.; 5800 Pleven; Bulgaria;
Tel. +359 64 884 204
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Education:
Primary - the town of Tryavna, P. Slaveykov High School 1963 - 1967
Secondary school - Tryavna, P. Slaveykov High School 1967 - 1974
Master's degree - Pleven, HMI - Pleven, 1976 - 1982
Scientific degrees
Medicine, Diploma №-000370/1982
Specialty: Obstetrics and gynecology /03.01.45/, Diploma № 35872 / 23.03.1990
Specialty: Oncology /03.01.46/, Diploma № 00007 / 01.07.1997
Specialty: Surgery /03.01.37/, Diploma № 31738 / 01.03.2009
Scientific degree: "Candidate of Medical Sciences", Diploma № 22340 / 01.06.1992
Dissertation: "Modern complex study on atypical hyperplasia and endometrial cancer"
Scientific title: "Senior Research Fellow II degree", Certificate of scientific title № 17197 / 20.02.1995
Scientific degree: "Doctor of Sciences" / dmn /, Diploma № 27735 / 04.02.2002
Dissertation: "Surgical behavior and prognosis in endometrial cancer stage I and II FIGO"
Scientific title: "Professor" in the scientific specialty 03.01.45 "Obstetrics and Gynecology" in a competition announced by the Higher Medical Institute - Pleven, Certificate of scientific title № 22275 / 09.02.2004.
Positions held:
Assistant, Senior Assistant and Chief Assistant at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HMI-Pleven, 1992-1995
Associate Professor - Head of the Clinic of Oncogynecology at the Medical Institute of Medicine-Pleven, 01.01.1996 - 19.12.2003
Vice-Rector for Diagnostic and Medical Activity of the Higher Medical Institute-Pleven, 01.01.2001 - 08.09.2003
Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Oncogynecology Department of the Faculty of Medicine since February 18, 2002.
RECTOR of HMI-Pleven, 19.12.2003 - 20.09.2004
RECTOR of the Medical University - Pleven, 20.09.2004 - 20.09.2008
RECTOR of the Medical University - Pleven, 11.12.2008 - 07.02.2013
VRID Head of the Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine - since 11.02.2013
Head of the Gynecological Clinic at the University Hospital "Dr. Georgi Stranski" - Pleven - from 01.07.2013
Chairman of the State Commission for Obstetrics and Gynecology
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Cancer Center since 2005.
Adviser to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria on health policy issues - 2007 - 2011
Head of the University Telecommunication Endoscopy Training Center with an experimental operating room with the status of a center for international training since June 2007.
Member of the Board of Trustees at the Medical University - Pleven since February 2013.
Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - December 2014
Medical manager of SBALAG "St. Marina ”- Pleven since February 2003
Medical manager of MHAT "St. Marina ”- Pleven since June 2015.
Membership in scientific organizations:
Bulgarian Medical Union since 1991
Bulgarian Scientific Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Chairman of BAGE - Bulgarian Association of Gynecological Endoscopy
Chairman of BAMIGH - Bulgarian Association of Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery
Chairman of the Balkan Medical Union - September 2014
Member of the Navy at the Ministry of Health since 2003.
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 2004.
Member of the Higher Attestation Commission since 2005
Member of the Board of SERGS - European Association of Robotic Gynecological Surgery - two terms until 2015.
Member of the Board of SEERSS - Association of Robotic Surgery for Southeast Europe - 2011.
Member of SRS - World Association of Robotic Surgery, USA
Courses and specializations:
Specialization in pelvic surgery at the Paul Strauss Cancer Center -
Strasbourg, France - 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000
Gemeli Cancer Hospital Rome, Italy, 1998
Course in laparoscopic surgery at the University Hospital Kushen, Paris - 2004
Specialization at the University Hospital - Strasbourg for obtaining a license for an international expert - lecturer in laparoscopic surgery - 2005; 2006
Course in Laparoscopic Surgery in Strasbourg - 2004; 2005; 2006
Certified console surgeon with robotic system da Vinci S - Center for Telesurgery IRCAD-EITS, Strasbourg, France - January 2008
Specialized Course in Radical Robotic Hysterectomy - University of North Carolina, USA - 2009
Areas of professional interest:
Cancer of the uterine body
Lymphogenic metastasis in gynecological oncological diseases
Modern surgical treatment of malignant diseases of the female reproductive system
Scientific publications:
Monographs - 5
Abstracts - 2
Scientific publications - 428 Impact factor / IF / = 14.48
Reports in the country and abroad - 1
Science films - 3
Innovations:
For the first time in Southeast Europe she performed a laparoscopic extended hysterectomy with pelvic lymph dissection of a woman with stage 1 cervical cancer in 2004, and for the first time operated on a woman with the same one