Prof. Christina Nicolaeva Vidinova- Zahova, PhD, MD

Education, Diplomas and certificates:

От 1985 – 1990 First English Language School
От 1990 -1996 Medicine,Medical University, Sofia.
21. 11. 1996 Medical diploma and Golden Hippocrates award for best student in the course. (MYC № 01426/21.11.1996)
21.01.01 Speciality in Ophthalmology, State exam in Ophthalmology and Diploma. (AC, № 007668/22.01.2001)
От 2000 – 2003 Doctoral thesis , Department in Opthalmology, Sofia “ Electron- microscopical and immune histochemical investigations of the vitreo-retinal correlations in normal and pathological conditions.”
06.06 2003 Ph. D degree. (№ 28929/23.02.2004)
2001-.2002 Marie Curie Training Site Fellowship - University Eye Clinic Tuebingen, Germany, (Type of fellowship PHD 20, LGA-GH-99-50423-04).
1.10 2004-1.11.2004 SOE educational Grant в очната болница - Moorfields Eye Hospital, Vitreo-retinal ward, London, U.K.
1.11.2005 Member of the German society of Ophthalmology (DOG).
1.05.2007-1.08.2007 International Council of Ophthalmology- ICO/ISOF Grant at the University Eye Hospital Ulm, Germany, Prof. G. Lang
2.8-23.8 2010 EBO Grant in Glaucoma, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, U.K.
2011-2014 Assistant professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Military Medical Academy, Sofia.
2015 -2017 European Leadership development programme ( EuLDP) Class 2015-2017)
2015 till present Scientific secretary of Bulgarian Society of Ophthalmology..
2017 -2022 Assoc. prof. In Ophthalmology , Sofia University, and in Military Medical
Academy.
2023 Prof. in Ophthalmology , Military medical Academy.
18.02-03. 2020 Phaco training course- hands on phaco. Dr. Argawal Eye Institute, Chennai, India
2020 -2022 Editor in Chief of „ Bulgarian Review of Ophthalmology.“
2018 SOE Board member
2022 SOE teachers grant University Eye Hospital Tuebingen.
2023 Vice president of the Bulgarian retinological society.
2025 Chair of SOE Educational Committee

Scientific and teaching activities:
2017 – t ill 2022 Assoc. prof. In Ophthalmology , Sofia University, Military Medical Academy- with over 350 teaching hours
2022 Prof. in . Ophthalmology , 550 teaching hours to ophthalmologists and optometrists.

Publications:
166 real publications in international and national journals, in 85 of them first author, 32 in Impact factor journals, 70 participations in congresses and conferences in Bulgaria and Abroad.

Prices and Grants:
– Golden Hippocrates award for best student in the course.- 1996.
– Prize for innovative presentation of a young scientist- 15-16.11 2002.
– Best poster award,The first Annual Pfizer Retinal Neovascularization Summit,2-4 06 2006, Budapest, Hungary.

Foreign Languages:
English (TOEFL – 653) and German (ZMP, Goethe Institute) .

Memberships:
• Scientific secretary of Bulgarian Soceiety of Ophthalmology.
• German Ophthalmological Society – DOG (2005).
• 2002-2018 European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS)
• 2002-2018 Euroretina

Prof. Christina Nicolaeva Vidinova- Zahova, PhD, MD

Foundation for the Support of Ophthalmology Development “Ophthalmology 21”

Foundation for the Support of Ophthalmology Development
“Ophthalmology 21”