Education

• 1980 – University of Medicine Varna

Specialties

• 1987 – Internal medicine
• 1991 – Cardiology and rheumatology

Professional carrier

• 1981-2011 – senior teaching assistant specialised in interventional cardiology at the Cardiology department of St. Marina University Hospital, part of theUniversityofMedicine–Varna
• 1993-2010 – ambulatory practice as a cardiologist at the Hippocrates Medical Centre, Dom Mladost,Varna
• Since 2011 –CardiolifeCardiologyHospital, Mladost Medical Centre,Varna
• Since 2010 – private cardiology practice in 3 Ivan Troyanski Str, Eurocity complex, Vuzrazhdane,Varna

Specialisations

• NationalCardiologyHospital–Sofia
• Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology Clinic of the DüsseldorfHeinrich Heine University,Germany
• UniversityHospitalof Grosshadern,Munich,Germany

Member of the following professional organisations:

• Bulgarian Society of Cardiology
• Bulgarian Society of Interventional Cardiology
• Rumen Tsvetkov has over 40 publications in the academic field of cardiology, as well as vast experience within ambulatory and clinical practice, in both non-invasive and invasive diagnostic and treatment methods used in cardiology

A native speaker of Bulgarian, he is fluent in German and efficient in English and Russian.