CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Dr. Ivan Ivanov, PhD
Affiliation with us:
Consultant, volunteer unpaid support
Current work Address:
Dept. Pediatrics & Med Genetics, Medical University, 15A V.Aprilov blvd, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Education:
• “Ph.D.” degree in 1999 for the thesis “The Role of Imaging Transfontanel Ultrasonography in the Follow-up of High Risk Infants (a comparative clinical-ultrasonographic study)”.
• State Diploma in Paediatrics, Sofia Higher Medical School, Bulgaria, 1992.
• “M.Sc.” degree in medicine, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1991-1997, graduated with Hippocrates Gold Medal for excellent education in medicine of the Bulgarian Medical Academy.
• Secondary education in the English Language School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1971-74
Professional qualifications and PG courses:
• Salzburg-Philadelphia Seminars on Paediatric Gastroenterology, Salzburg, Austria, 2004.
• European Paediatric Neurology Society Course on Epilepsy and Other Paroxysmal Disorders, Taormina, Italy, 2003.
• Basic training course in Prechtl’s method on qualitative assessment of general movements, Graz, Austria, 2001.
• Teaching course in sleep eeg in children and youngsters, Dept. Paediatrics, Graz University Hospital, Graz, Austria, 2001.
• Internship in Paediatric Neurology, Dept. Paediatrics, Graz University Hospital, Graz, Austria, 2001.
• Training course in Epileptic Encephalopathies, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2001.
• Training in Paediatric Neurology, Sofia Medical University, 2000.
• Training course in Clinical Neurophysiology, Sofia Medical University, 2000.
• Teaching and training course in molecular biology and molecular pathology, Medical Faculties of Namur ( Belgium), Bonn (Germany), Plovdiv and Sofia (Bulgaria), JEP-08121-94, 1996-1997.
Bulgaria, June 1995;
• Salzburg-Philadelphia Seminars on Paediatric Neurology, Salzburg, Austria,1996
• Training course in Paediatric Neurology, Meical University-Sofia, 1996.
• Postgraduate training in Paediatric Neurology, at Prof. Dr. Raphael Weitz, Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Tel-Aviv, 1993 -1994.
• Training courses in ultrasonography in paediatrics, Sofia Higher Medical School, 1993.
Work experience:
• Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. Paediatrics and Medical Genetics, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1998 -present
• Consulting neuropaediatrician at the Home for Medical and Social Care for Infants, Plovdiv, 2001 – present.
• Assistant Professor, Dept. Paediatrics, Med University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1988-1998.
• Paediatrician, Regional Hospital, Pazardjik, Bulgaria, 1988-89.
Current research projects:
• Principal investigator
Title of the project: “Investigation upon symptomatic cytomegalovirus infection in infants in the first year of life”, funded by Medical University, Plovdiv, 2003-2005.
• Collaborative Researcher
Title of the project: “Pilot screening for subtelomeric chromosomal aberrations in unknown mental retardation”, funded by Medical University, Plovdiv, 2001-2004.
Publications:
Dr. Ivanov has published in Bulgarian and international journals: Pediatia (Sofia), Folia Medica (Plovdiv), European J. Pediatrics, European J. Ultrasound, Sexually transmitted diseases, Acta myologica and others. He has written chapters on paediatric neurology in textbooks and other teaching materials.
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