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Assist. Prof. MIlena Petrova Stoyanova, MD, PhD


Department: Medical Genetics
Email: mp.stoyanova@abv.bg
Phone:052/ 978 649

 

Biography

Dr. Milena Stoyanova, PhD, MD, was born on January 16, 1978, in Yambol, Bulgaria. She graduated in Medicine from the Medical University of Varna in 2002. Since 2009, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Medical Genetics (now the Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics). In 2018, she began full-time PhD studies, and in 2022, she successfully defended her dissertation titled “Genetic Diagnostic Study Among Pediatric Patients with Hereditary Pathologies Who Received Genetic Counseling.” In 2010, she obtained a medical specialty in Pediatrics, and in 2018, in Medical Genetics. In 2023, she was appointed Chief Assistant Professor at the Department.


Publications

Dr. Stoyanova has authored over 40 full-text publications and contributed to more than 40 national and international scientific forums. Her professional and research interests focus on hereditary and congenital pathologies in childhood, as well as rare dysmorphic syndromes.

Member of

She is a member of the Bulgarian Society of Human Genetics, the Bulgarian Paediatric Association, the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), and the Bulgarian Society of Human Genetics and Genomics.