BASA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Acad. Prof. Grigor Velev, MD, PhD, DSc
President of BASA
Grigor Velev is Professor of pathology, Past Rector of Trakia University - Stara Zagora and Former Head of its Department of Pathology. He is founder, first President and Honorary Chairman of the Association of Bulgarians in the World. His scientific research includes a number of medical publications, monographs, textbooks and manuals of pathology. He is active researcher of the public activity related to the historical and up-to-date problems of Bulgarian politics and its relations with other Balkan countries. He is also an author of many books devoted to the Bulgarian history, theory of nationalism and others.
Acad. Prof. Venko Aleksandrov, MD, PhD, DSc
President of the General Assembly of BASA
Venko Alexandrov is Professor of anesthesiology and resuscitation and Chairman of the Philharmonic Society at the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. He is author of more than 250 scientific papers, 12 monographs, many textbooks and manuals. He is acknowledged with the Honorary Diploma of the French Academy and with Gold Medal for International Expert in the field of Science and Culture (2009). He is prominent politician and member of the 39th National Assembly of Republic of Bulgaria.
Acad. Prof. Petko Todorov, PhD, DSc
Vice-President of BASA
Petrko Todorov is a journalist, doctor of Economics and bachelor in Engineering. He is the Head of the Department "Media and Public Communications" at the University of National and World Economy and President of the "Civil Society" Department of BASA. His scientific activities include three monographs and number of scientific publications, papers and textbooks. For three years he worked in the Council for Mass Media of the Council of Europe.
Acad. Rumen Leonidov
Vice-President of BASA
Rumen Leonidov is a poet, publicist, writer and translator. He is co-founder of the literature magazine "Fakel" and "Bulgarian monthly issue" (edition of BASA) and author of nine books of poetry. His poems have been translated in many languages and included in various anthologies of Bulgarian poetry worldwide. He is a member of the Association of Bulgarian Writers and winner of many national and international poetry awards.
Acad. Prof. Miladin Apostolov, MD, PhD, DSc
Vice-President of BASA
Miladin Apostolov is Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of Social Medicine and History of Medicine and President of the Balkan Association of History and Philosophy of Medicine. He is author of more than 400 scientific publications in Bulgaria and abroad. His main research fields are in teaching activities in medicine, socially significant diseases, medical ethics and deontology.
Acad. Prof. Margarita Kamenova, MD, PhD
General Secretary of BASA
Margarita Kamenova is Professor of General and Clinical Pathology, Head of the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital of Emergency Medicine "Pirogov", member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal "Bulgarian Medicine". She is author and co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, monographs, textbooks and manuals. Her research fields are primarily in onco- and neuropathology. She is also Past Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Pathologists and plays a significant role in many social activities.
Acad. Prof. Ekaterina Titianova, MD, PhD, DSc
Secretary of International Relations of BASA
Ekaterina Titianova is Professor and Head of the Clinic of Functional Diagnostics of Nervous System at the Military Medical Academy – Sofia and Faculty of Medicine of Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", President of Bulgarian Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics (BSNCH), Member of the Executive Committee of the WFN Neurosonology Research Group, Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Journal "Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics", Member of the International Advisory Boards of Journals "Archivos de Neurociencias" (Mexico) and "Neurosonology" (Japan). Her research fields are: cerebrovascular diseases, neurosonology, hemorheology, autonomic failure, gait motor control and neurorehabilitation.