Management
Assoc. Prof. Dessislava Bogdanova, M.D., Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
Assoc. Prof. Dessislava Bogdanova, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology at the Medical University - Sofia
Head of the Clinic of Nervous Diseases for Neurodegenerative and Peripheral Nervous Diseases, St. Naum Medical University Hospital EAD
Professional Experience
1993 - 1995: Outpatient and Inpatient Physician, Pirdop Municipal Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine
1995 - : Neurologist and Neurophysiologist, Third Neurological Clinic, EMG Laboratory, St. Naum Medical University Hospital
1995 - 2000: St. Naum Medical University Hospital, Sofia Clinic for Cerebrovascular and Degenerative Diseases
2001 - 2012: Assistant in Neurology, Medical University - Sofia, St. Naum Medical University Hospital (since October )
2012 - : Associate Professor of Neurology, Medical University - Sofia; Head of the Clinic of Neurological Diseases for Neurodegenerative and Peripheral Nervous Diseases, St. Naum University Hospital, Sofia
Awards and Honors
2002: Young Scientist Award "Academician Dr. Assen Hadzhiolov" For high achievements in scientific research and teaching activities at the Faculty of Medicine - Sofia
2003: Medical University of Hannover, Germany with a Scholarship of the European Society of Neurology (ENS 2003) Scientific project "Cortical excitability in patients with Multiple System Atrophy"
2004: Kauchtschischvili Award of Fondazione Cirna Center for Scientific Development in Neurology, Italy
2006: University of Pavia, Italy Clinic of Neurorehabilitation, Center for the Study of Headache, Fondazione Mondino
Education and acquired specialty
1992: Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Sofia
1999: Acquired specialty: Neurology
1995 - 1999: Postgraduate specialization: "Neurology" University Specialized Hospital for Neurology and Psychiatry "St. Naum"
1997: Postgraduate specialization: "Neurology" Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital "Tsarina Ioanna"
1997: Postgraduate specialization: "Clinical Neurophysiology" Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital "Tsarina Ioanna"
1998: Postgraduate specialization: "Clinical Neurophysiology" Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital "Alexandrovska"
2005: Postgraduate specialization: "Clinical Neurophysiology" University of Barcelona, ??Spain, Clinic of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Training in Neurophysiology in Movement Disorders
2009: Doctor of Medicine. Topic of the dissertation: "Clinical-neurophysiological study of brainstem functions in patients with headaches"
Professional qualification
Specialist in neurology, experience in clinical practice, headache, pain, movement disorders, clinical electromyography, training and scientific activity in neurology and neurophysiology
Treatment of spasticity, dystonias, facial hemispasm and migraine with botulinum toxin injection, blockades for pain and headache.
Additional information
Membership in professional organizations:
- Member of the Bulgarian Society of Movement Disorders
- Member of the Bulgarian Society of Headache
- Secretary of the Bulgarian Society of Neurology
- Member of the Bulgarian Scientific Society of EEG, EMG and Clinical neurophysiology
- Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Secretary of the Bulgarian Association for Clinical EMG and EP
Scientific interests: Mainly in the field of movement disorders, Parkinson's disease, pain, headache and clinical neurophysiology
Scientific publications: 52 publications in the field of movement disorders, Parkinson's disease, cerebrovascular disease, pain, headache and electrophysiology in Bulgarian and international scientific journals
Foreign languages: English, Russian
Senior nurse Evgenia Salapieva
Senior nurse
Curriculum Vitae
Evgenia Salapieva
Medical College, Medical Academy, Sofia: Nurse - retraining course, 1977
School for Secondary Medical Personnel, Sofia: Nurse - general profile with dental qualification, 1976
New Bulgarian University, Sofia: Bachelor's degree in Health and Health Care Management / Diploma No. 004221, 2001
College of Economics, Sofia: Economics and Business Administration, 2001
Military Medical Academy, Sofia: Clinic - Functional Diagnostics of the Nervous System - Nurse, 2011 - 2021
Medical Academy: Faculty of Dental Medicine, Sofia - Dental Nurse, 2007 - 2011
19th Polyclinic, Sofia - Nurse, 1997 - 2000
28th Polyclinic, Sofia - Senior Nurse, 1987 - 1997
Medical Academy: Treatment Department, Sofia - Nurse, 1979 - 1987
Medical Academy: Dental Institute, Sofia - Dental Nurse in the Anesthesia Team, 1976 - 1979
ICH-GCP Training and Participation in an International Clinical Trial Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (PRMS) Phase III, Oral Drug, 2016 - 2017
Structure
The Neurodegenerative and Peripheral nerve Disorders Clinic consists of two units, specialized for treatment of neurodegenerative and peripheral nerve disorders - different types of tremor, Alzheimer`s disease, Parkinson`s disease, dystonias, headache and pain, radiculopathy, peripheral neuropathy and others.
The clinic is a base for carrying out scientific and research activity in the different areas of neurology, education of students, specializing doctors for acquiring a neurology specialty; for qualification of diagnostic methods in the neurology - electromyography and neuropsychology.
Neurological department of neurodegenerative disorders
Dr. Vasil Petrov Todorov
Head of department
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Vasil Todorov
Dr. Vasil Todorov, MD, graduated with honors from the Medical University of Sofia. In 2018, he specialized in neurology. In the same year, he defended his dissertation on the topic "Clinical and neurophysiological studies in patients with headache".
He is currently a senior assistant professor at the Department of Neurology at the Medical University - Sofia and head of the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment in Neurology and Psychiatry «St. Naum», Sofia.
His areas of specialization include headache and other pain syndromes, movement disorders, polyneuropathies, dementias, multiple sclerosis, clinical electromyography, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, modern therapies in neurological practice.
He conducts neurology training for specialists, residents and medical students in both Bulgarian and English, including training in highly specialized procedures.
Dr. Todorov is the Vice-President of the Bulgarian Headache and Pain Society and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian scientific journal "Cefalgia". He is the author and co-author of dozens of publications in Bulgarian and international scientific journals and has participated as a lecturer in numerous neurological conferences, meetings and educational programs in Bulgaria and abroad.
Dr. Teodora Evdenova
Curriculum Vitae
Teodora Evdenova, M.D.
Graduated:School of Medicine, University of Sofia - 2005Medical licensure:2005 - M.D. DegreeBoard certified:in neurology: 2014Training:
- 2006-2014 - University Multiprofile Hospital for active treatment in neurology and psychiatry "St. Naum"
Clinic for neurodegenerative and peripheral nervous system disorders in University Multiprofile Hospital for active treatment in neurology and psychiatry "St. Naum" - neurologist.Professional experience:2006- Present - University Multiprofile Hospital for active treatment in neurology and psychiatry "St. Naum"Professional affiliations:
- Member of the Bulgarian Neurological Association
- scientific publications: 10 scientific publications on Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Mild cognitive impairment in Bulgarian Journals
Dr. Kalina Pekova
Postgraduate student of nervous diseases
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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Kalina Pekova
Education: She graduated in medicine at the end of 2019 at the Medical University of Sofia.
Dissertation: Specialization in Nervous Diseases begins in 2020 at St. Naum Hospital.
In the same year, she enrolled in a doctoral program on the topic of Preventive treatment of patients with frequent migraine attacks.
Position held: Neurology specialist in the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Clinic for Neurodegenerative and Peripheral Nerve Diseases at the St. Naum Hospital.
Scientific interests in the field of: Her interests are focused on all aspects of neurology, but she specializes in the diagnosis of headaches, degenerative diseases (dementia, Parkinson's disease), as well as peripheral nerve diseases.
She participates in a number of congresses and is the author of 1 article and 2 posters.
Dr. Dayana Gadzhalova
Postgraduate student of nervous diseases
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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Hristina Papazova
Postgraduate student of nervous diseases
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Curriculum Vitae
Neurological department of peripheral nerve disorders
Anatoli Kirilov Atanasov, M.D.
Head of department
Curriculum Vitae
Anatoli Atanasov, M.D.
Graduated: School of medicine, University of Pleven - 1989
Medical licensure: 1989 M.D. degree
Board certified in neurology: 1994
Board certified in psychiatry: 2005
Training:
Neurology:
1989 – 2007 Municipal Hospital Belogradchik presently MBAL
“Belogradchik“ EOOD
2007 – present MBALNP “St. Naum” Specialized Hospital for
Neurology and Psychiatry, Sofia
Professional qualifications: board certified neurologist, board certified psychiatrist, experience in clinical practice, headache, pain, movement disorders, dementia, Doppler Sonography and Electroencephalography
Current position:
Department for neurodegenerative and peripheral nervous system disorders in Multiprofile Hospital for active treatment in neurology and psychiatry “St. Naum” – Head of 2nd Neurological department
Professional experience:
1989 – 2007 Municipal Hospital Belogradchik presently MBAL “Belogradchik “ EOOD -
Chief of Neurological ClinicDoctor in a Neurological ward
Doctor in a Neurological ofis
2007 – present MBALNP “St. Naum” Specialized Hospital forNeurology and Psychiatry,
-Sofia – Head of 2nd Neurological department
Professional affiliations:
- Member of the Bulgarian Neurological Association
- Member of the Bulgarian Headache and Pain Association
Scientific affiliations: mainly in the field of movement disorders, headache and pain, dementia, Doppler Sonography and Electroencephalography
Participation in international congresses and conferences:
- National congress of neurology, Golden Sands, Bulgaria
- Neuropathic pain symposium-Antalya 2011
- 27-th Congress of the Federation of the International Danube Symposia on Diabetes Mellitus-Budapest 2012
- European Federation of IASP® Chapters /EFIC/-Florence 2013
- XXI World Congress of Neurology-Vienna 2013
- 21-st Multidisciplinary international neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry Conference-St-Petersburg 2014
- 29-th Congress of the Federation of the International Danube Symposia on Diabetes Mellitus-Jarmala, Latvia 2014
- 30-th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease international - Perth Australia 2015
- XXI World Congress IAPRD 2015, Milan, Italy
- 69-th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 3-rd Congress of the European Academy of neurology held in Amsterdam 2017
- 30-th ECNP Congress, Paris, 2017
- 17-th European Congress Clinical Neurophysiology, Warsaw, 2019
- 32-th ECNP Congress
- 8-th EAN Congress, Vienna, 2022
- 35-th ECNP Congress, Vienna, 2022
- 17-th World Congess Controversies in Neurology,Croatia
- 10-th EAN Congress, Helsinki,2024
Language: conversant in English and Russian
Clinical trials experience: Yes. Sub- Investigator
GCP training: Yes
Nikolay Zlatkov Kalaydzhiev, M.D.
Neurology resident
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Curriculum Vitae
Nikolay Kalaydzhiev, M.D.
Education: Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Sofia, 2018.
Dissertation: Doctoral student at the hospital since March 2018 with the topic: "Pain syndromes in patients with Multiple Sclerosis", scientific supervisor Acad. Prof. Dr. Ivan Milanov, MD.
Position held: Neurologist at the Clinic for Neurodegenerative and Peripheral Nervous Diseases.
Membership in scientific organizations: Bulgarian Society of Neurology; Bulgarian Society of Headache and Pain.
Scientific interests: Pain treatment, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease.
Languages: English
Dr. Angel Gotsov
Postgraduate student of nervous diseases
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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Stephanie Shtereva
Postgraduate student of nervous diseases
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Curriculum Vitae
Contacts
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Desislava Bogdanova - Head of clinic: +359 2/ 9702 180
Dr. Anatoli Atanasov - Head of department: +359 2/ 9702 186
Dr. Kalina Pekova : +359 2/ 9702 181
Dr. Dayana Gadzhalova: +359 2/ 9702 181
Dr. Hristina Papazova: +359 2/ 9702 182
Dr. Vasil Petrov Todorov - Head of department: +359 2/ 9702 182
Dr. Teodora Evdenova - neurology specialist : +359 2/ 9702 182
Senior medicine nurse Evgenia Salapieva: +359 2/ 9702 183
