{"id":54113,"date":"2025-10-21T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cardiacinstitute.bg\/?post_type=employees&#038;p=54113"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:09:38","slug":"ivan-mindov","status":"publish","type":"employees","link":"https:\/\/test.cardiacinstitute.bg\/en\/team\/ivan-mindov\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Mindov, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"274\"><strong>Ivan Mindov, MD<\/strong> graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Trakia University, Stara Zagora. He is a <span data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"271\">specialist in neurosurgery and interventional pain therapy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"755\">His professional career began at the <span data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"361\">University Hospital \u201cProf. Stoyan Kirkovich\u201d<\/span> in Stara Zagora and later continued in departments of <span data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"498\">neurosurgery, spinal surgery, orthopedics, emergency surgery, and pain therapy<\/span> in Germany, under the supervision of <span data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"567\">Prof. Dr. med. P. A. Weidle<\/span> and <span data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"609\">Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. J\u00fcrgen Hampl<\/span>. He is currently part of the <span data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"711\">Neurosurgery Department at \u201cHeart and Brain\u201d Hospital, MC 2 \u2013 Burgas<\/span>, and <span data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"752\">MC \u201cSt. Ivan Rilski\u201d \u2013 Karnobat<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"757\" data-end=\"1001\">From <span data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"778\">2016 to 2020<\/span>, Dr. Mindov was a <span data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"830\">PhD candidate in Neurosurgery<\/span>, successfully defending his dissertation on <em data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"999\">\u201cThe Role of VEGF-alpha\/beta in the Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapeutic Approach in Patients with Primary Brain Tumors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1139\">His scientific interests include <span data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1136\">microneurosurgery, minimally invasive spinal surgery, pain therapy, and oncological neurosurgery<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1141\" data-end=\"1218\">Dr. Mindov has completed numerous postgraduate training courses, including:\u00a0\u201c<span data-start=\"1222\" data-end=\"1255\">D.A.C.H. 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