The Minister of Health Dr. Katsarov has retired the most colorful member of the Staff – Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev, from the post of director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, writes Maritsa bg.
The news was confirmed by sources from the department. The motives are reaching retirement age.
The specialist dedicated 33 years of his life to the Center, climbing from the lowest step to the position of director.
His colleagues respect him very much. They swear that this is an incredible scholar and the only person who can tell the story of every corner.
The center took the first blows of the KOVID pandemic. The first test laboratory operated there.
The center has an extremely important role in the prevention of diseases and epidemics, as its specialists watch around the clock for AIDS, plague, cholera, Ebola and all sorts of other things.
It is not clear who will replace Prof. Kantardzhiev, who with the briefings had become a favorite of the people. Interestingly, he was hidden from regular press conferences for a long time, as he was clearly not a favorite of part of the previous state government.
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Professor Dr. Todor Veselov Kantardzhiev, MD, graduated from the Medical Academy in Sofia in 1981 as a doctor. From 1981 to 1982 he worked in the town of Belovo, from 1982 he was a research associate at the Department of Military Epidemiology and Hygiene of the Military Medical Academy. Since 1988 he has been with the NCIPD, successively managing the laboratory sector, laboratory, joint laboratory and since 1992 – Department of Microbiology. In 1986 he acquired the specialty Microbiology, in 2001 he acquired the specialty Clinical Immunology and in 2004 the specialty Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.
He has been a doctor of medicine since 1991 with a dissertation on “Immunological methods for the diagnosis of systemic candidiasis.” He has been a doctor of medical sciences since 2008 on the topic “Studies on the etiological diagnosis and etiotropic therapy of mycoses in Bulgaria”. He has been an associate professor since 1995 and a professor since 2009. In 2004 he obtained a master’s degree in Health Management at the Medical University of Sofia with a diploma thesis “Management of a clinical microbiological laboratory”.
Specializations abroad:
1989 – European Federation of Microbiologists – Berlin, Robert Koch Institute, Germany;
1990 – Association of German Mycologists – Freiburg, Germany;
1991 – Scholarship to the German Association for Academic Exchange – Münster, Germany;
1999 – Royal Society – Aberdeen, UK;
2001 – Royal Society – Aberdeen, UK;
Membership in professional organizations Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Microbiologists, Deputy. Chairman of the Scientific Society of Microbiology, Member of the Board of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology, Member of the Board of the Balkan Society of Microbiology, Member of the Mycological Societies of France, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg, Member of the American Society of Microbiology, Member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
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