Head of department
- Assoc. Prof. Rumyana Nikolova Kuzmanova, MD, Ph.D. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +359 2/ 9702 216
Senior nurse
- Tinka Kaitazova This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Graduated:
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1986 - Graduated from "Y. Filaretova" - Sofia, Nurse - children's profile;
2002 - Qualification exam at the Pirogov Institute - Nurse, higher education, general profile;
2020 - Master of Health Care Management - Professional experience:
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Since September 2004 - Medical Center MHATNP St. Naum:
- Department of Movement Disorders
- Neurodegenerative and Peripheral Nerve Disorders Clinic
- Neurological Clinic for Treatment of pain and Neurorehabilitation
- Department of Nerve Disorders for Paroxysmal States
1991 - Republican Center for Blood Transfusion and Hematology - Blood Donation
1986 - National Cardiology Hospital - Children's Cardiology Clinic - Membership in scientific organizations:
- BULGARIAN ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN NURSING (BAHPN)
- Languages:
- Russian, English

Assoc. Prof. Rumyana Nikolova Kuzmanova, MD, Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof. Rumyana Nikolova Kuzmanova graduated from the Medical Academy, VMI - Sofia in 1984.
She worked successively as a doctor at the District Hospital, Samokov (1984 - 1987), a doctor at the Department of Degenerative Diseases, St. Naum Hospital, EAD (1987 - 1990), and since 1990 - a doctor at the Epilepsy Department at the Clinic for Nervous Diseases for Paroxysmal Conditions, St. Naum Hospital, EAD.
She has successively held the positions of Head of Department and Head of Clinic.
In 1991, she obtained a specialty in Nervous Diseases, VMI - Sofia in 1991.
Since 2006, she has been qualified in clinical electroencephalography, Medical University - Sofia.
Her scientific and teaching activities have been from 1987 to the present as an assistant professor in neurology (1987 - 1991), senior assistant professor (1991 - 1995), chief assistant professor (1995 - 2017), since 2017 she is an associate professor at the Department of Neurology, MF, MU - Sofia.
She is actively involved in teaching and teaching activities, teaching Bulgarian and foreign students, as well as neurology residents.
She defended her dissertation for the award of the educational and scientific degree "Doctor" in the scientific specialty "Neurology", Medical University - Sofia on the topic "Adverse drug effects during treatment with antiepileptic drugs - importance for the therapeutic approach and impact on the quality of life in patients with epilepsy" in 2015.
She has over 80 publications and scientific reports at national and international scientific forums.
She speaks German (language school), English and Russian (fluent in writing and speaking).
Assoc. Prof. Kuzmanova is a member of EAN, Bulgarian Society of Neurology, Bulgarian Society against Epilepsy, Association "Association of Movement Disorders and Multiple Sclerosis", Bulgarian Society of Headache and Pain, Bulgarian Society of EEG, EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology.

Tinka Kaitazova
The Clinic of nerve disorders for paroxysmal states was founded in 2010.
It consists of two departments: First Neurological Department for Autonomic Nervous System Disorders and Second Department for Epilepsy, which was opened in 1951.
It is the only specialized neurological clinic in the country that makes a diagnostic and treatment of vegetative disorders, epilepsy and other neurological attacks, occurring with/without disturbances of consciousness: orthostatic hypotension, neurogenic syncope, vestibular syndromes and others.
In the clinic are diagnosed and treated also patients with peripheral nerve system disorders - radiculitis, plexitis, polyneuropathy, with aches in the back and disc neuralgia, with different forms of headache, with atypical facial pain, neuralgia, neuritis, chronic vessel diseases of the nervous system, hereditary and degenerative neurological diseases and dementias.
The doctors in the clinic posses different research methods in the neurology: Doppler sonography, routine and with functional testing, electroencephalography, diagnostics of the autonomic nervous system: heart rate variability and blood pressure, tilt table orthostatic test, cooling test and others.
Head of department
- Senior assistant prof. Petar Damyanov, MD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +359 2/9702 211
- Graduated:
- Medical University of Sofia - 1996
- Medical licensure:
- 1996- M.D. Degree
- Board certified:
- in Neurology - 2003
- Training:
- Doppler sonography - 2004; Autonomic nervous system investigation - 2013
- Professional qualifications:
- Board certified neurologist, experience in clinical practice, headache, vestibular disorders, cerebrovascular disease, doppler sonography, autonomic nervous system.
- Current position:
- Senior assistant prof. at Neurological department for paroxysmal disorders, MHATNP "St. Naum", Sofia
- Professional experience:
- MHATNP "St. Naum", Sofia
- Professional affiliations:
- Member of the Bulgarian Society of Neurology, Bulgarian Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics
- Scientific affiliations:
- Mainly in the field of headache, vestibular disorders, cerebrovascular disease, doppler sonography, autonomic nervous system
- Over 30 scientific publications
- Language:
- German - fluent, English - good
Assistent
- Assistant Nino Tomov Chaushev, MD, PhD, assistent This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +359 2/9702 212
- Graduated:
- Medical University of Varna - 2006
- Ph.D. Degree: 2012, Thesis:
- "Quality of life in patients with migraine"
- Medical licensure:
- 2006 - M.D. Degree
- Board certified:
- in Neurology - 2013
- Training:
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- Highly specialized activity in EEG - 2014
- Highly specialized activity in Otoneurology - 2015
- Highly specialized activity in EMG - 2018
- Professional qualifications:
- Specialist in nervous diseases, EMG, EEG, headache, diseases of the peripheral nervous system, motor disorders, functional study of the autonomic nervous system.
- Current position:
- Doctor of Nervous Diseases at the Clinic of Nervous Diseases for Paroxysmal Conditions - 1st Department of the MHATNP „St. Naum“, Sofia. Chief Assistant at the Department of Neurology, Medical University of Sofia.
- Professional experience:
- MHATNP „St. Naum“, Sofia
- Professional affiliations:
- Member of the Bulgarian Society of Neurology
- Scientific interests:
- In the field of disorders of the autonomic nervous system, cerebrovascular diseases, EEG, EMG, functional neurosonography, headache, disorders of the peripheral nervous system, motor disorders, higher cortical functions.
- Scientific publications:
- Over 20 scientific publications
- Languages:
- English - fluent, German - good
- Graduated:
- School of Medicine, Unuversity of Sofia - 1989
- Medical licensure:
- M.D. Degree - 1989
- Board certified:
- in neurology - 2014
- Professional qualifications:
- Board certified neurologist, experience in clinical practice, headache, autonomic nervous system, movement disorders, peripheral nervous system, epilepsy
- Current position:
- Medical Doctor at clinic of neurology for paroxysmal disorders, MHATNP "St. Naum", Sofia
- Professional experience:
- MHATNP "St. Naum", Sofia
- Professional affiliations:
- Bulgarian society of neurology. Member of the Bulgarian society of neurology
- Scientific affiliations:
- Mainly in the field of pain, peripheral nervous system, headache, and epilepsy
- Language:
- Russian fluent

Senior assistant prof. Petar Damyanov, MD
DOCTORS:

Nino Tomov Chaushev, MD, PhD
Greta Yoncheva Angelova, MD
Head of department
- Irina Tsvetanova Vaneva, MD, PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +359 2/9702 217
- Graduated:
- Medical University of Sofia - 2006
- Medical licensure:
- M.D. Degree - 2006
- Board certified:
- in neurology - 2014
- Training:
- EEG
- Ph.D. Degree: (2013) Thesis:
- "Comorbidity of epilepsy"
- Professional qualifications:
- Board certified neurologist, experience in clinical practice, epilepsy, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, pain, headache, clinical electroencephalography.
- Current position:
- Medical Doctor at Neurological department for paroxysmal disorders, MHATNP "St. Naum", Sofia
- Professional experience:
- MHATNP "St. Naum", Sofia
- Professional affiliations:
- Member of the Bulgarian society of neurology
- Scientific affiliations:
- Mainly in the field of epilepsy, movement disorders, pain, headache, and electroencephalography
- Over 10 scientific publications
- Language:
- English fluent, Russian good
Irina Tsvetanova Stefanova, MD, PhD
DOCTORS:
Assoc. prof. Rumyana Kuzmanova, MD - +359 2/9702 216
Chief assistant Dr. Petar Damyanov - +359 2/9702 211
Dr. Nino Chaushev, Doctor of Medicine - +359 2/9702 212
Dr. Greta Angelova, MD - +359 2/9702 213
Assoc. Prof. Irina Tsvetanova Vaneva, MD, PhD - +359 2/9702 217
Dr. Diyana Trichkova - +359 2/9702 230





