Dr. Kalina Binkova Ganeva was born on December 5, 1986. She graduated in Medicine from the Medical University of Varna in 2012 with excellent academic performance. Since 2012, she has been working as a resident physician at the 3rd Pediatric Clinic of University Multiprofile Hospital for active treatment “St. Marina". In 2017, she obtained a specialty in Pediatric Cardiology, and in 2021, a specialty in Pediatrics. In 2018, she won a competition for a full-time assistant position at the Department of Pediatrics. In 2019, after a competitive examination, she was enrolled as a full-time PhD student at the Department of Pediatrics. In 2023, she successfully defended her dissertation on the topic: "Possibilities of some echocardiographic techniques and microRNAs for detecting subclinical myocardial damage in children and young adults with beta thalassemia major." Since 2024, she has held the position of Chief Assistant at the Department of Pediatrics.
Main areas of interest – congenital heart malformations, pediatric echocardiography in normal and pathological conditions, rhythm and conduction disorders, arterial hypertension, and others.
She has participated in international and national congresses in the field of pediatrics and pediatric cardiology. She has several publications in peer-reviewed Bulgarian and international scientific journals:
- Ganeva K, Shivachev P, Sapundzhiev N, Nikiforova L, Propranolol treatment of infantile subglottic hemangioma: a report of two cases and a literature review, Folia Medica 2021;63(4):601-7. DOI 10.3897/folmed.63.e58121
- Ganeva K, MicroRNAs and cardiac health. Their role as a potential biomarker in heart disfunction. Journal of the Union of scientists – Varna. Medicine and ecology series.2021;26(1):5-9
- Ganeva K, Shivachev P, Anakievski D, Kalchev K, Balev B, Iotova V. The challenge to prove a rare cause of secondary arterial hypertension. A case report of a pediatric renal solitary fibrous tumor. Turk J Pediatr. 2022;64(4):759-765. doi: 10.24953/turkjped.2020.2809. PMID: 36082651
- Ganeva K, Petar Shivachev, Trifon Chervenkov, Valeria Kaleva; Experimental study of microRNAs associated with cardiac damage in young patients with beta-thalassemia major; Scripta Scientifica Medica, 2022;54(4):20-27;
Member of the Bulgarian Pediatric Association (BPA), the Bulgarian Medical Association (BMA), the Society of Cardiologists in Bulgaria (SCB), and the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).
