Education and training  

• 1980 – 1984 Secondary education – State Commercial High School “Dimitar Hadzhivasilev” – Svishtov
• 1984 - 1990 Medical doctor, Higher Medical Institute – Pleven, Bulgaria
• 2003 Specialty on Social medicine and Health management
• 2014 PhD on "Social Medicine and organization of healthcare and pharmacy", Medical University – Pleven.
• 2018 Specialty on Health Economics
• 2023 Certified Career Development Facilitator

Academic positions

• Assistant professor at the department of Social Medicine and Health Management (1998 – 2003)
• Senior Assistant professor at the department of Social Medicine and Health Management (2003 – 2006)
• Chief assistant professor at the department of Social and preventive medicine, Medical statistic, Pedagogy and Psychology (2007 – 2015)
• Chief assistant professor at the department of Public health sciences (2015 - 2016)
• Associate professor at the department of Public health sciences (2016 - 2022)
• Associate professor at the department of Social medicine and Health management (2022 - 2024)
• Professor at the department of Social medicine and Health management (2025 until now)

Specializations

• 18-20.11.1998. Training and workshop in the project “Problem Solving for Better Health”, held by Dreyfus foundation, Open society and High medical institute of Pleven.
• 08 – 10. 12. 2006. Current issues of medical pedagogy, Medical University of Pleven.
• 04 – 17. 11. 2007. Research work methodology. Medical university of Pleven.
• 03-09.05.2009. „Family Medicine“ – international training held by American Austrian foundation (AAF) и Open Medical Institute, Salzburg, Austria.
• 14 – 17. 11. 2009. Foundation of Pedagogy, Medical university of Pleven.
• 09.09.2011. Training course on Global health as a part of the Project: DCI-NSA ED/2011/239-187 of EU: “Equal Opportunities for Health; Action for Development”, Medici con I’Africa Coamm (Italy), Medical university of Pleven.
• 15-16.03.2013. „Epidemiology, observation and control on HPV. Intercession and information campaigns” as a part of the AURORA Project of EU.
• 18.06.2015. A round table with international participation on "Visiting nurses - an effective means for improving maternal health and child welfare at early age", organized by UNICEF, the Trust for alternative social and Bulgarian Pediatric Association
• 04-10.10.2015. “Medical education” - international training held by American Austrian foundation (AAF) и Open Medical Institute, Salzburg, Austria.
• 11-15.05.2016. Erasmus mobility course “Train the trainer”, Barcelona, Spain
• 18-22.05.2018. Erasmus mobility course “Understand yourself, Undertand your Learners (Enneagram)”, Prague, Check republic
• 21-25.03.2022. Erasmus mobility course “Cross-cultural issues in education”, Limassol, Cyprus
• 13-17.02.2023. Erasmus mobility course “Handling stress & avoiding burnout”, Palermo, Italy
• 14-18.04.2024. Erasmus mobility course “English for Educators – advanced your career II level”, Split, Croatia
• 29.06 – 06.07. 2025. Erasmus mobility course. “Education for sustainable development”, Paris, Franc 

Teaching experience

·       Social medicine practical and seminars (English and Bulgarian)

·       Lectures on Social medicine, Epidemiology of non-communicable diseases, Health promotion, Medical sociology, Global health in Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Public health, Faculty of Health care and Medical college.

·       Lecture course on Workplace Health Promotion in Master degree on Public health and Health management

·       Erasmus mobility for teaching, Sumi State University 14-18.10.2019., Sumi, Ukraine

·       Methodological assistance to postgraduate and PhD students

Scientific interests

• Medical and social problems of specific population groups
• Epidemiology of non-communicable diseases
• School health promotion
• Workplace health promotion
• Organization of health care
• Global health
• Theoretical and practical aspects of career counselling

 Membership

• European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
• The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)
• Balkan Medical Union
• Bulgarian medical association
• Bulgarian Union of scientists
• Bulgarian Association on Preventive medicine
• Bulgarian Association on Public health
• Bulgarian Scientific Society of Public Health