Birthdate and birthplace: 09.19.1970, the town Vidin, Bulgaria

Education:

 

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Administrative and expert positions

 

Courses and specializations – more than 50:

 

Teaching activities:

 

Member of the commission for the state exam in the specialty:

• medicine – AEO and BEO

• nurse

• midwife

• health care management

• public health and health management

 

Member of the state examination committee for the acquisition of a specialty:

• Social Medicine and Health Management (for doctors)

• Public Health (for nurses, midwives, public health inspectors and paramedics)

 

Research interests:

 

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Projects

I. Educational projects

    1. EIT Health I-Days Pleven, Pre-accelerator educational program for the creation of Start-up and Spin-off companies at the Medical University - Pleven together with JA Bulgaria
    2. "Mentoring support for students of Roma origin studying health specialties", within the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (2014-2021);
    3. Project BG05M2OP001-2.013-0001 of the Ministry of Education and Culture "Student practices - Phase 2" financed by OP NOIR - academic mentor of 60 students;
    4. "Student practices" - phase 1, OP "Science and education for smart growth (2014-2020);
    5. "Erasmus+" - Medical Institute of Sumy State University, Ukraine (2019);
    6. "TRAIN4M&H", organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and funded by the European Union1 (2018);
    7. Development of specific training modules for medical personnel, law enforcement authorities and trainers (2018);
    8. Provision of training for first-line health professionals and law enforcement officers working (2018);
    9. Project: DCI-NSA ED/2011/239-187 of the EU: ”Equal Opportunities for Health; Action for Development" in collaboration with Medici con I'Africa Cuamm (Italy).
    10. Project "Equal opportunities for health: action for development" (2011 – 2014) - training and trainer of health professionals from medical institutions in Pleven, Lovech, Vratsa.
    11. Project: "Scholarship program for medical students and doctors - specialists of Roma origin, "mentoring" component (2011 – 2015) - mentor of 6 students of Roma origin in the specialty "medicine".
    12. Project BG051PO001 - 3.3.07-0002 "STUDENT INTERNSHIPS" (2013 – 2014) - academic mentor of 54 students.
    13. Project BG051PO001-4.3.04-0049 "Innovative and modern education in MU-Pleven" under scheme BG051PO001-4.3.04 "Development of electronic forms of distance learning in the system of higher education" (2012 – 2014) - participation in development of materials for the discipline "Epidemiology of Health" for the master's degree "Public Health and Health Management"
    14. Project "Civil monitoring of health care in the territory of the city of Pleven. Local model for civil participation and support in the implementation of the health reform" (2005) - training and participation in monitoring the health care of the population by doctors in pre-hospital and hospital care in the territory of the city of Pleven.
    15. Project "TEMPUS-PHARE PEC-AC-JEP-13560-98" - 2000, Belgium and France

 

II. Scientific projects

    1. Impact of COVID-19 on the Roma population in Bulgaria - funded by the Open Society Institute, Sofia (2020)
    2. Organizational model of obstetric activities in the prevention of HPV-associated diseases - 2020/2022
    3. Migrants' health - public attitudes and challenges to the country's health system (2017/2019)
    4. Oxidative stress in colorectal carcinoma (2018/2019)
    5. Health and demographic characteristics of the working population in Bulgaria (2018/2020)
    6. Comprehensive medico-social survey of the health status of the Roma population

    (2016)

7. Conditions and prerequisites for health promotion at the workplace in Bulgaria (2015)

 

Prizes awarded

1. Honorary award on the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the Faculty of Public Health for teaching activity and contribution to the development of the Faculty, September 30, 2010, Pleven.

2. Plaque "40 years of Medical University - Pleven" - for the acquisition of the educational and scientific degree "Doctor", December 3, 2014, Pleven.

3. Most outstanding teacher, December 2015, Pleven

4. Plaque for acquiring the academic position "Assoc. professor", October 25, 2016, Pleven.

5. Most outstanding teacher, December 2016, Pleven

6. Certificate for contribution to supporting the development of Roma youth and students in Bulgaria, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, April 7, 2017, Sofia

7. Certificate for contribution to healthier children and better child health care, President of the Republic of Bulgaria, 2018, Sofia

 

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