Tokuda Hospital

Dr. Yablanksi graduated from the Thracian Medical University in 1996. After his graduation he continued his medical education in the Surgery Department of the Duke University Hospital in North Carolina in the US.
He received his specialization in orthopedics and traumatology in 2001. He has also earned specializations in endoprosthesis procedures and additional post-graduate medical training for bone-joint surgery received in Salzburg, Austria.

• Dr. Yablanksi earned a Master’s degree in public health from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
•  Dr. Yablanski worked for eight years in the orthopedics and trauma department of the university hospital in Stara Zagora, after which he began working in the university hospital Tzaritza Yoanna.
•  He has been the department chief of the orthopedics and traumatology department since Tokuda hospital began serving the public.
•  He is an active member of the Bulgarian Association of Orthopedics and Trauma, and the International Scoliosis.

Associate Professor Dr. Dimitar Evstatiev has three medical specialties: general surgery, maxillo-facial surgery, and plastic surgery with over 40 years of professional experience as a plastic surgeon.

He has specialized in Russia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, and Spain.

• • He led the plastic-reconstructive and aesthetic surgery clinic of the Alexsandrova University hospital for 20 years. Assoc.
• • Prof. Evstatiev is the national representative in the International Committee of Quality Assurance of Medical Devices in Plastic Surgery(IQUAM).

Dr. Perchinska graduated dental medicine from the Sofia Medical University in 1998.

• • She earned her specialty in orthodontics in 2004, and gained eight years of experience working in the Student’s Polyclinic and also has years of experience working in private dental offices.
• • She has numerous orthodontic certifications from international training courses. She has been a member of our dental medicine department since January 2007

Dr. Davidoff  graduated medicine in 1994 in Medical University of Sofia. Specialty Urology obtained in 2000. After his graduation dr. Davidoff worked in University Hospital Alexandrovska. He has obtained specialized experience under the guidance of the Bulgarian national consultant in transplantology and prominent oncourologist prof. Petar Panchev. He is part of Tokuda Hospital Sofia from the very beginning.

Dr. Alek Topov graduated from the Sofia Medical University in 1995 and received his specialization in ophtalmolgy in 2002.

He completed a post-graduate course in Germany in 2000 and started working in the Alexandrova University Hospitals Ophtalmology department in 1996.

• • Dr Topov is a part of Tokuda Hospital Sofias work team since 2008 and on 24th April 2012 he became Ophtalmogy Department Chief.
• • He passed extra qualification courses in the field of surgical treatment of cataracta, glaucoma and refractvie laser surgery (laser vision correction).

Dr. Chervenkoff graduated from the Sofia Medical University in 1987, after which he began working as a rotational intern in the General Hospital in Silistra, Bulgaria. In 1988, he served as a resident in the university hospital Sveta Ekaterina in the vascular surgery clinic.

In 1992, he met the clinical access requirements for the United States Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates ECFMG and received his certification and an year later he received his U.S. Federal Licensing Examination (FLEX) certification.

• • Dr. Chervenkoff received his medical specialization in general surgery in Bulgaria, after which from 07/1995 to 06/1998 he continued his specialization in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery in the Carolinas Medical Center located in Charlotte, NC under the mentorship of Professor Francis Robichek.
• • He received his specialization in vascular surgery in 1999, and in 2001-2001 he earned an additional specialization in the endovascular treatment of peripheral vascular diseases in the same U.S. medical center.
• • DDr. Chervenkoff returned to Bulgaria and defended his dissertation upon the theme “The surgical treatment of obstruction of the arteries of the lower extremities (below the knee)” and received his PhD degree.
• • Dr. Chervenkov has numerous scientific medical publications in national and international medical journals, regularly participates in international medical forums, and is an active member of the European Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.
• • Before joining the hospital team, he was the chief resident of the vascular surgery clinic of the university hospital Sveta Ekaterina.

Dr. Kondoff graduated from the Sofia Medical University in 1994, and earned his neurosurgical specialization in 2002. Between 1996 and 2006, he was a member of Professor Gabrovski’s team in the neurosurgery clinic of the general hospital “Pirogov”. He began his career with Tokuda Hospital Sofia in 2006.

Dr. Kondoff and has a master’s degree in health care management as well as has numerous specializations and completed postgraduate medical training courses including:

• • Dr. Kondoff has also participated in spinal surgeries in the Paris University “Neuro-navigation based on Ultrasonography” from the University Hospital Saint Olav in Tronhiem, Norwayunder the mentorship of Professor Unsgard
• • Spinal surgery courses sponsored by the AO-Spine Foundation of Switzerland, and Paris, France
• • Neuro-endoscopy courses in the Ekolab Academy in Tutligen and University Clinic Stuttgrat under the mentorship of Professor Hopf in Germany
• • Vascular and micro-neurosurgery courses inBern, Switzerland
• • Specialization courses in 9 hospitals within theTokushukai hospital network in Japan
• • Endovascular embolism treatment procedures -Hamburg, Germany and Barcelona, Spain
• • Dr. Kondoff has also participated in spinal surgeries in the Paris University

Dr. Nikolov graduated from medical school in 1987, and has two specializations: surgery and cardiac surgery.

He has also added specializations in Germany, the USA and Japan.

• • In 1990, he began working in the general hospital “Sveta Ekaterina” and earned 17 years of experience in cardiac surgery. He was appointed the chief resident of "Sveta Ekaterina", and for the last two years of his tenure at the hospital he was a member of the executive department “Transplantation and Artificial Hearts”.
• • He joined Tokuda Hospital Sofia in April 2007 and leads the cardiac surgery department and operation block number two.
• • Dr. Nikolov has numerous medical publications in both Bulgarian and international medical journals, and he has participated in many scientific conferences locally and abroad.
• • He is a member the European Association of Cardiac Surgery, the Bulgarian Union of Cardiology, and the Bulgarian Association of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery. In 2002, he received the “Bulgarian Doctor of the Year” award.