Dr. Lyudmil Simeonov graduated from the Plovdiv Medical University in 2015. From December 2009 to 2014 he worked as a resident doctor at the Association of Medical Students in Bulgaria (ASMB), where he diagnosed children with congenital and acquired heart diseases.

From November 2015 to January 2017, he specialised at the National Cardiology Hospital at the Paediatric Cardiology Clinic, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

He joined the Preventica team in 2022.

Specialisations:

• Pediatric Cardiologist

Member of:

• Bulgarian Medical Union
• Bulgarian Society of Cardiology
• The Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC)

Education:

• Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain
• Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
• San Juan de Deu Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
• Open Medical Institute of the Austrian-American Foundation, Salzburg, Austria
• Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
• Coordinator in the "Twin" Project between Plovdiv and Heidelberg in 2013 as part of the European Association of Medical Students
• Part of the organizing committee of the 3rd Eastern European Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs - Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment
• Part of the organizing committee of the 4th Eastern European Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs - Together for an Integrative Approach to Rare Diseases.

Publications:

• "Follow-up of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in pre-hospital and in-hospital care" Union of scientists, 2011

• "Crystals in rheumatology - the "most beautiful" finding in patients with psoriatic and gouty arthritis", Asclepius Youth Scientific Society, 2012. Pages 333-338

• "Evidence of crystals in rheumatology practice", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2012

• Recovery in the early postoperative period after Fontan operation – 9 years experience of a single institution in favor of early extubation strategy. Cardiology in the Young. Volume 28; Supplement 1; Page 157. 2018

• Strategy for early extubation after Fontan operation for a 9-year period - a guarantee for stable hemodynamics. Bulgarian cardiology. 2018.

• Additional antegrade pulmonary blood flow after partial cavopulmonary connection – impact on hemodynamics and pulmonary artery branch growth. A 14-years single-center experience. Cardiology in the Young. Volume 29; Supplement 1; Page 45 – 46. 2019.

• The Effect of Aerobic Training on Functional Capacity Assessed by Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients after Fontan Procedure: A Case Report. Scientific reports  from the Science and Youth competition 2020. Page 311- 314.

• Implementing an Early Extubation Strategy in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. The Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society. 16^th Annual International Meeting. 2020.

  
  

Fluent in:

• English language