Vassil Ivanov Mihaylov

Bulgaria

Education

2020, Public Health and Social medicine
2017, Associate Professor of Surgery
2015, PhD Thesis – “Liver Transplantation”
2012 -2013, Senior Clinical Fellow in HPB and Transplant Surgery – Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
2005 – 2010, Resident in visceral surgery
1997 – 2003, Medicine, Medical University Sofia
1992 – 1997, SELS – Sofia, Bulgaria

Additional qualification

2021, International Donor Surgery and Organ Preservation Masterclass, Warsaw, Poland – Prof. M. Kosieradzki
2021, IRCAD Online course – MIS Left pancreatectomy: technical approaches – Prof Jacques Marescaux
2018, International Scholars Training Program at Division of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery – ASAN Medical Center – Seoul, South Korea – Prof Sang-Do Lee
2018, Masterclass in laparoscopic HPB surgery – Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris, France – D. Cherqui
2017, Laparoscopic HPB Surgery – Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel – Prof Nachmany Ido
2012 – 2013, Senior Clinical Fellow in HPB and Transplant Surgery and Multiorgan procurement – Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK – Prof. D. Mirza
2012, The donor surgeon and Multiorgan procurement, Padua, Italy – U. Cillo
2012, Organ retrieval course – University of Oxford, UK
2012, Postgraduate course of IHPBA – Laparoscopic Surgery for HPB. Paris, France
2012, Postgraduate course of EPC – Prague, Czech Republic
2011, International Postgraduate Course of IASGO. Extrahepatic and Hillar Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer.
2011, Sofia, Bulgaria – N.J. Lygidakis, Postgraduate course of LDLT
2010, Istanbul, Turkey – Y. Tokat, International Postgraduate course of International IASGO. Liver metastases, Sofia, Bulgaria – N. Vladov
2009, Postgraduate course of Liver Transplantation, Montreal, Canada – J. Tchervenkov
2006, Postgraduate course of laparoscopic surgery, Sofia, Bulgaria – N. Vladov
2005, Postgraduate course of HPB surgery, Sofia, Bulgaria – N. Vladov
2003, Training in visceral and vascular surgery – CHU – Besancon, France – Prof. G. Camelot

LANGUAGES

English, French, Bulgarian (native)

APPOINTMENTS

2023, Chairman of Bulgarian Transplant Society
2017, Associate professor of surgery, HPB and Transplant Surgery, Military Medical Academy
2013 – present, Consultant General, HPB and Transplant Surgeon, Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 -2013, Senior Clinical Fellow HPB and Transplant surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
2010 – 2012, Consultant General Surgeon, Military Medical Academy – Sofia, Bulgaria
2004 – 2010, Resident in General Surgery, Military Medical Academy – Sofia, Bulgaria

Memberships

Fellow of American Collage of Surgery (FACS)
General Medical Council (GMC)
International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS)
European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT)
International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA)
International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists (IASGO)
Bulgarian Transplant Association (BTA)
Bulgarian Surgical Society (BSS)
European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)
Bulgarian Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologist and Oncologists