Education:

• Higher education: Medicine, Higher Medical Institute, Pleven (1982)
• Specialty “Medical parasitology” (1987)
• Specialty “Infectious diseases” (1998)
• Doctoral student at National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia (2007-2009)
• Defended PhD thesis “Study on human blastocystosis: some etiological, clinical, epidemiological, immunological and therapeutic aspects” (2009)
• Master degree in public health and healthcare management (2010)

Academic positions:

• Assistant Professor, Senior Assistant Professor,
• Chief Assistant Professor at Higher Medical Institute, Medical University –Pleven (1983-2011);
• Assoc. Prof. of Medical Parasitology, Department of Infectious diseases, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Medical University - Pleven (2011)

Teaching activities:

• Lecture courses on tropical medicine with medical students (Bulgarian and English language of training)
• Lecture courses on medical parasitology with medical students (Bulgarian and English language of training)
• Lecture courses on protozoology and helminthology with baccalaureate degree courses (lab technicians, public health protection and control );
• practicals and seminars in medical parasitology;
• training postgraduate students of medical parasitology and general medicine.

Fields of research interests

•  opportunistic parasitoses
• immunopathogenesis of parasitic diseases;

Publications works published in Bulgarian and foreign journals:

• over 40 scientific communications  
• over 40 “Blastocystosis: the unknown parasitosis”
• a monograph, 2010 co-author of three textbooks, 1 monograph and 1 handbook

Memberships:

•  Bulgarian Society for Parasitology European Federation of Parasitologists
• Union of Scientists in Bulgaria
• Bulgarian Medical Association
• The European Public Health Association (EUPHA)