Prof. Todor Kundurzhiev, dm

Biography:

Prof. Kundurzhiev was born in the town of Gotse Delchev. He graduated with a degree in Mathematics. He holds a degree in Medical Informatics and Health Management.

He began his professional career as a project manager in the "Information Systems and Models" sector of the National Center for Health Information at the Ministry of Health, where he is also a third-year research assistant.

He began his academic and teaching career as an assistant professor at the Department of Social Medicine and Health Management at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Sofia. He has successively gone through all stages of academic development: assistant professor, senior assistant professor, chief assistant professor, associate professor and now professor at the Department of Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Public Health "Prof. Dr. Tsekomir Vodenicharov, MD" at the Medical University of Sofia. He is currently the Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs of the same faculty.

He defended his dissertation on the topic "Evaluation of the effectiveness of multidisciplinary hospitals for active treatment in the Republic of Bulgaria" in the scientific specialty "Social Medicine and Organization of Healthcare and Pharmacy".

Publications and scientific interests:

Prof. Kundurzhiev is the author and co-author of more than 250 scientific publications, including about 50 with an impact factor in Bulgaria and abroad, and of 2 monographs. 

Prof. Kundurzhiev's scientific works have been cited by over 400 Bulgarian and foreign authors. Prof. Kundurzhiev's Hirsch index (h) is 9 (according to information from Scopus and Web of Science).

His scientific output is in the field of information systems in occupational medicine, interoperability of medical information systems, mathematical models for assessing relative efficiency in hospital care, quality of working life in healthcare (one of the authors who adapted and validated the instruments for assessing the quality of working life in Bulgaria) and biostatistical research in various clinical areas (nephrology, cardiology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, etc.).

Membership in organizations:

Prof. Kundurzhiev is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian Academic Society of Occupational Medicine and a regular member of the Bulgarian Scientific Society of Public Health and the National Association of Health Policy and Management.

He is a member of the Bulgarian Institute for Standardization as a representative in the direction TC-80 "Electronic data exchange in administration, trade and services".