professional career
- graduated in medicine at the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1961
- municipal doctor in Djurovo, Bulgaria (1961-1963)
- assistant medical director of the mother-child clinic "Maika i Dete", Dobroslavtsi, Bulgaria (1964–1967).
- assistant medical director of the Department of Dermatology at the Medical Academy Sofia, Bulgaria (until 1979)
- assistant medical director of the Department of Dermatolgoy at the Medical University of Pleven, Bulgaria (until 1985)
- specialist in paediatrics since 1970
- specialist in dermatology and venerology since 1973
- founder and assistant medical director of the Department of Dermatolgoy of the Medical University of Pleven, Bulgaria (1979–1985)
- medical director of the Department of Dermatolgoy at the Medical University of Pleven, Bulgaria(1986-2001)
- specializations:
- Vienna, Austria (1970)
- Sankt Petersburg, Russia (1971–1973)
- Bordeaux, France (1981–1984)
- Zurich, Switzerland (1994–1998)
- Munich and Düsseldorf, Germany(1998)
- habilitation treatise on the topic "atopic eczema, morphology, clinic and prophylactic" (1977)
- member of the "Bulgarian Society for Dermatology und Venerology"
- correspondant member of the French Society for Dermatology (SFD) (since 1982)
- member of the "European Society for Pediatric Dermatology" and member of the editiorial board of the
"European Journal of Pediatric Dermatology" (since 1984)
- board member of the "Bulgarian Society for Wound Therapy".
- founder and honorary member of the board of the Bulgarian Society of Psoriasis Patients
- founder and chairman of the "Bulgarian Society for Epidermolysis bullosa hereditaria" (since 1994)
- honorary member of the "Bulgarian Society for Dermatology and Venerology" (since 2008)
