Prof. Silvia Mladenova Mladenova, PhD

Biography:

Silviya Mladenova Mladenova is Professor, Doctor in Medicine at the Faculty of Public Health “Prof. Dr. Tzecomir Vodenitcharov, MD, DSc“ of the Medical University - Sofia. She was born in Sofia, she has graduated "Social Pedagogy" at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and a Master's degree in Public Health and Health Management at the Medical University - Sofia. She defended her dissertation on the topic "Socio-medical aspects of health education for students aged 12-15". Since 2003 she has a recognized specialty "Medical Pedagogy". She is consecutively assistant, senior assistant, chief assistant, associate professor and professor at the department of "Medical Pedagogy". Since 2024, she has been a professor in the Department of Health Care.

She has specialized on a PHARE program in the school for higher hospital cadres in Public health hospitals – Marseille and Paris, France and at the Athens University, Greece in the intensive program “Management of medical services. Administration and public health”.

Publications and scientific interests:

She took part in projects on program PHARE, Tempus program, a project of the World Bank “Development of an educational program in management of a common practice and health promotion”, Access “Home care” of Bulgarian Red Cross etc.

She has participated in several Grant research projects funded by the Council of Medical Science at MU - Sofia.

She is the head of PhD students program in "Social Medicine and Health and Pharmacy Organization", "Healthcare in the healthcare system" and of "Medical Pedagogy" graduates.

Her professional interests are in the field of teaching methodology, medical pedagogy, health education, personalized medicine and ethical aspects of its application.

She wrote and published two monographs on "Health Education" and "Personalized Medicine: Challenges, Expectations, Opportunities". Author and co-author of more than 140 publications and 24 textbooks and tutorials, there are over 300 citations.

She participates in the editorial board of the magazine “Sestrinsko delo” and “Health care”.

Membership in organizations:

She is а Member of the National Quality Council at the Bulgarian Association of Healthcare Professionals, the Bulgarian Society of Medical Education and Bulgarian Scientific Society of Public Health.

Prof. Mladenova is the Chairperson of the Permanent University-wide Commission for Management and Evaluation of the Quality of the Educational Process.

She is an expert at the National Agency for Assessment and Accreditation in the professional fields "Public Health" and "Health Care" since 2010.