Education, qualification and professional development :

1. Master degree in Medicine, Medical University – Pleven in 1981

Specialty:

1. Internal Medicine (1986)
2. Clinical Hematology (1988)
3. 2001 – Doctor of Medical Science  (Ph.D.) Thesis: "Free radical processes in  blood in patients with anemia."
4. 2005- Associate professor of Clinical Hematology
5. Head of hematology clinic
6. Over 60 publications in Bulgarian and foreign scientific journals. One of the first clinicians in Bulgaria, who studied oxidative stress and its role in free radicals pathogenesis of hematologic diseases. Author of a monograph “Free radical processes. Perspectives on antioxidant prevention and therapy” and a chapter:"Clinical hematology" in the textbook  "Internal diseases" for medical students.

• Teaching 

1. Lectures and practical classes in clinical hematology at the Faculty of Medicine
2. Lectures in internal medicine at the Faculty of Public Health and the Medical College

• Scientific interests

1. Free radical processes, congenital and acquired anemias, cytogenetic and molecular analysis in malignant hematological diseases.

• Scientific organization membership

1. Bulgarian Scientific Society of Clinical and Transfusion Hematology 
2. European Hematological Association 
3. Bulgarian Medical Union  

• Language skills

1. Russian language
2. English and French language