Management

Acad. Prof. Dr. Ivan Gospodinov Milanov, MD, DSc

Graduated: Year of graduation in Medicine - 1981

Medical licensure: Specialty - Neurology since 1986

Scientific degree: "Doctor of Medical Science" - 1998

Academic rank: “Professor” – 2001

Training: Specialization in Movement Disorders in University of Kansas - USA,
Kansas city, Kansas in the class of Prof. W. Koller - 1 month, 1995; Specialization in headache in the University of Pavia - Italy in the class of Prof. G. Nappi and Prof. G. Sandrini - 1 year, 1997, 1998, 1999

Publications: 250 + co-authorship in monographs and textbooks

Martin Gerganov, MD

Graduated:

Medicine in 1994

Specialty:

Clinical laboratory, Homeopathy, Healthcare Management

Professional qualification:

Physician specializing in clinical laboratory, homeopathy and health management

Professional experience:

>27 years

Current position:

Deputy Director of Medical Activities - MBALNP St. Naum, Sofia
Head of the Clinical and Liquorological Laboratory, MBALNP St. Naum, Sofia

Online consultations:

No

Languages:

English and Russian

Dr. Gerganov graduated in Medicine in 1994 and began his career as a general practitioner.

He subsequently specialized in Internal Medicine, and in 2018 obtained a qualification in Homeopathy from the European Society of Homeopathy.

In 2024 he completed his specialization in Clinical Laboratory Medicine.

Since January 2, 2025, he has been Head of the Clinical and Liquorology Laboratory at St. Naum University Hospital for Neurology and Psychiatry, Sofia.

He is a member of the Bulgarian Society of Neurology and the Bulgarian Society of Clinical Laboratory Medicine.

His professional interests are focused on liquorology and modern laboratory methods for CSF analysis, including agarose electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing with immunofixation.

Assoc. Prof. Svetlozar Haralanov, M.D., Ph.D.

Graduated:

School of Medicine, University of Sofia - 1996

Medical licensure:

1981 - M.D. Degree

Board certified:

Psychiatry - 1984

Training:

Washington (USA) - 1992, Wurzburg (Germany) - 1993, 1997, Bad Kissingen (Germany) - 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004

Ph.D. Degree: 1987, Thesis:

„Methods and devices for provoking and investigating hallucinatory experience: Implications and perspectives“

Professional qualifications:

Board certified psychiatrist, experience in clinical practice, schizophrenia and other psychoses, mood and anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology, biological psychiatry, neurosensology, movement and gait disorders, equilibriometry, event-related brain potentials, craniocorpography, speech audiometry, projective methods, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, clinical psychophysiology.

Current position:

Deputy Director of the University Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry, Head of the First Psychiatric clinic, Head of the Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology and Psychophysiology.

Professional experience:

National consultant on Psychiatry and Vice-President of the Council of Mental Health (Ministry of Health), Consultant and Expert on Psychiatry (National health insurance fund), Editor-in-chief of the psychiatric section of the national specialized journal „Bulgarian Neurological and Psychiatric Practice“ and the Bulgarian-Austrian specialized journal „Neurology and Psychiatry“, member of the Editorial board of the International Tinnitus Journal (New York, USA), Head of the National Commission for board certification in psychiatry.

Professional affiliations:

Member of the Bulgarian Medical Association, the Bulgarian Society of Biological Psychiatry, the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, the International Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society, President of the „Hans Selye“ Stress and Adaptation Society.

Scientific affiliations:

Mainly in the field endogenous and organic psychoses, mood and anxiety disorders, addictions, neurophysiology, psychophysiology, clinical psychology

• more than 250 scientific publications
• 3 monographs, 5 Handbooks of Neurology, 1 Handbook of Psychiatry
• 7 inventions, 1 current international patent

Awards:

National award for medicine „Invention-Application-World Standard“ (1986), National award „Young inventor of Bulgaria“ (1987), National award „Honorary inventor“ (1988)

Language:

English fluent, French fluent, Russian fluent

Krasimira Slavcheva