Assoc. Prof. Elitza Betcheva-Krajcir, MD, PhD, Clinical geneticist

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· She is Master in medicine since 2005, medical genetics specialist since 2009 and has a PhD degree in Human Genetics since 2010 (the Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria).

· In 2007 she has completed a one-year training in Molecular Genetics at the Tokyo University and the Institute RIKEN (Japan), where she performed the experimental part of her PhD-thesis (case-control GWAS of schizophrenia; supervisors - Prof. Dr. Yusuke Nakamura and Akadem. Dr. Draga Toncheva (Bulgaria)).

· From 2014 to 2018 she has completed a second specialization in Human Genetics in Germany, (Medical Faculty of the TU Dresden and the Mitteldeutscher Praxisverbund Humangenetik Dresden-Friedrichstadt).

· She had a clinical practical year in internal medicine with an intensive care, pediatrics and pediatric surgery.

· Since 2020 she is Head of the medical genetics laboratory at the ‘Heart and Brain’ Hospital in Pleven, Bulgaria and is a genetic counselor.

· Since 2024 she is an associated professor and a lecturer at the department of Molecular genetics, immunology and medical genetics at the Medical Faculty of the Trakia University Stara Zagora.

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She lectures students of medicine in Bulgarian, English and German, has 3 medical doctors in training for medical genetics under her supervision and has just obtained accreditation of the medical genetics PhD-program at the Trakia University.

She has a large number of publications in renowned scientific journals with over 200 citations and is co-author of several textbooks in genomic medicine and oncology.