Education

• 1967 - 1971 – Academy of Economics "D. Tzenov "- Svishtov, profile" Mechanization and automatization of managerial work"
• 1982 - Specialty "Economics of Health"
• 1988 – PhD "Learning fails needs of the population in Pleven district of hospital care" in scientific specialty "Social medicine and organization of health and pharmacy."
• 2007 - Specialty "Medical Informatics and Health Management"

Academic positions

• Assistant professor Medical University - Pleven, Department of Social Medicine (1977-1982)
• Senior Assistant professor Medical University - Pleven, Department of Social Medicine (1982-1985)
• Chief Assistant professor, Medical University - Pleven, Department of Social Medicine (1985-2004)
• Associate Professor, Medical University - Sofia, Faculty of Public Health (2004 - 2005)
• Associate Professor, Medical University - Pleven, Faculty of Public Health - (2005)
• Professor, Medical University - Pleven, Faculty of Public health" - (2014)

Specializations

• Health Economics (1980-1982)
• Medical Education
• Information Technology

Teaching

• Since 2005, held separate lectures and practical classes in "Medical Statistics" and "Methodology of research" in the Bachelor and Master programs
• Participated in the teaching of medical statistics and informatics, medical sociology, social care and health care organization of medical students, bachelors and masters in health care
• Courses for postgraduate education in Medical Statistics and Methodology of research

Research interests:

• Health status of the population - demographic, clinical and epidemiological studies of chronic non-communicable diseases control, efficiency and development of the hospital, current sociological problems of medicine and healthcare and others
• Author and co-author of 287 publications and participation in national and international scientific congresses and conferences, including 2 monographs and 5 textbooks

Membership in scientific organizations

• Scientific Society for Social Medicine (1992)
• Union of Scientists in Bulgaria (2003)

Language qualification

• Russian - written and spoken
• English - use of language

Contacts:

Department "Public Health Sciences"

Faculty „Public Health“

Medical University - Pleven

5800, Pleven

Phone + 359 64 884 124

e-mail: phristova@abv.bg