About the clinic
The Clinic for Nervous Diseases for Paroxysmal Conditions was established in 2010 and is established in the structure for highly specialized medical activity, including diagnostics, treatment and expert activity for paroxysmal neurological diseases.
It consists of two departments: First Neurological Department for Diseases of the Autonomic Nervous System and Second Department for Epilepsy.
It is the only specialized neurological clinic in our country, which performs diagnostics and treatment of epilepsy, vegetative disorders, and other paroxysmal neurological conditions occurring with/without disturbances in consciousness: orthostatic hypotension, neurogenic syncope, vestibular syndromes and others.
The clinic also diagnoses and treats patients with diseases of the peripheral nervous system - radiculitis, plexitis, polyneuropathies; neurologically determined pain syndromes - back pain and disc disease, various forms of headache, atypical facial pain, neuralgias, neuritis; chronic vascular diseases of the nervous system; hereditary and degenerative neurological diseases and dementias.
The doctors at the clinic are proficient in various research methods in neurology and have additional qualifications in highly specialized activities: Doppler sonography (routine and with functional tests), electroencephalography, diagnostics of the autonomic nervous system: heart rate and blood pressure variability, orthostatic test with a lifting table, cold test, etc. The team applies complex diagnostics in close cooperation with other structures in the hospital.
The clinic is a base for conducting scientific research in various fields of neurology, training students, and doctors specializing in acquiring a specialty in neurology; for qualification in diagnostic methods in neurology - electroencephalography and Doppler sonography, participation in clinical studies.
The clinic employs 7 doctors - 6 with a specialty in neurology, of which 2 are associate professors in neurology, 2 chief assistants, one doctor with a specialty in ophthalmology, and 1 resident; 9 nurses, of which 1 is a senior nurse with a master's degree in healthcare management; 4 orderlies.
The clinic meets the medical standard for "Nervous diseases" of a level III hospital structure.
Patients can contact the clinic by the hospital's telephone numbers published on the website or via Superdoc.
Management
Assoc. Prof. Rumyana Kuzmanova, MD, Ph.D.
Head of the clinic
Curriculum Vitae
Assoc. Prof. Rumyana 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
Senior nurse
Curriculum Vitae
Tinka Kaitazova
Graduated: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 ManagementProfessional experience: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 ClinicMembership in scientific organizations:BULGARIAN ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN NURSING (BAHPN)Languages:Russian, English
First Neurological Department for Autonomic Nervous System Disorders
Chief Assistant prof. Petar Damyanov, MD
Curriculum Vitae
Chief Assistant prof. Petar Damyanov, MD
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: Chief Assistant professor 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
Languages: German - fluent, English - good
Nino Chaushev, MD, PhD, assistent
Assistent
Curriculum Vitae
Nino Tomov Chaushev, MD, PhD
- 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
Greta Angelova, MD
Curriculum Vitae
Greta Yoncheva Angelova, MD
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
Second Department of Epilepsy
Assoc. Prof. Irina Vaneva, MD, PhD
Head of department
Curriculum Vitae
Irina Tsvetanova Stefanova, MD, PhD
- Over 10 scientific publications
Antonia Nikolova, MD, PhD
Resident physician
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Antonia Nikolova
Work experience
01.2019 - ...: St. Naum Hospital; position held: full-time doctoral student
01.2017 - 01.2019: St. Sofia Hospital; position held: eye diseases
01.2016 - 11.2016: Tsaritsa Ioana Hospital - ISUL; position held: resident physician
Education and training
07.2009 - 12.2015: Sofia Military Academy; main subjects/professional skills covered: acquiring a specialty in the healthcare system; acquired qualification: eye disease specialist
09.2002 - 12.2008: Medical University - Sofia; main subjects/professional skills covered: specialty Medicine; acquired qualification: doctor
Dr. Diyana Trichkova
Postgraduate student of nervous diseases
Curriculum Vitae
Contacts
Assoc. Prof. Rumyana Kuzmanova, MD - +359 2/9702 216
Chief assistant Dr. Petar Damyanov - +359 2/9702 211
Nino Chaushev, MD, PhD - +359 2/9702 212
Dr. Greta Angelova, MD - +359 2/9702 213
Assoc. Prof. Irina Vaneva, MD, PhD - +359 2/9702 217
Dr. Diyana Trichkova - +359 2/9702 230
