Dr. Assen Keltchev, PhD
Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital “Acibadem City Clinic Cardiovascular Centre”.
Dr. Assen Keltchev, PhD. graduated in medicine with honors from the Medical University – Sofia in 2004. He has two specialties – “Cardiac Surgery” and “Vascular Surgery”, as well as a Master’s degree in „Health Management” from the Southwestern University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad.
In the period 2004 – 2007 he worked as an intern at the Cardiosurgery Clinic at the University Hospital “St. Ekaterina”. From 2007 to 2018 he was part of the cardiac surgery team at Acibadem City Clinic. Since May 2018, Dr. Assen Keltchev has been appointed Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital “Acibadem City Clinic Cardiovascular Centre”.
Dr. Keltchev is a two-time winner of the first prize in the “Innovations in the Health Sector” of “Capital”, as over the past 5 years his team has been applying revolutionary minimally invasive methods in cardiac surgery.