Welcome to Valentina Petkova's homepage


E-mails: petkovav1972@yahoo.com; vpetkova@pharmfac.net
Personal information:
Nationality: Bulgarian
Date of Birth: 8th of February 1972
Place of Birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
Marital status: married
Spoken Languages: Bulgarian, English, Russian, German
Work Experience:
2008 till now:
Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Associate Professor
Main activities: teaching, instruction, scientific work and research
2001-2008:
Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Assistant Professor
Main activities: teaching, instruction, scientific work and research
1999-2001:
Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Research fellow
Main activities: scientific work and research
1997-2001:
Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
PhD student
Main activities: scientific work and research
Education and training:
1986-1991
Secondary Education with language skills:114 English Language School -Sofia, Bulgaria,
graduated with gold medal
1991-1996
Higher Education: Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Title of qualification: Master of science (pharmacy)
1996-1998
Postgraduate specialization education course: Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Title of qualification: Specialist in marketing and management
March, 1998 - Specialization course in Potsdam, Germany, McGill University
MEASUREMENT IN HEALTH CARE
June, 1999 - Specialization course in Syracuse, Italy, Harvard School of Public Health
MEDITERRANEAN SCHOOL OF MEDICAL STATISTICS AND CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
June, 2000 - Specialization course in Syracuse, Italy, Harvard School of Public Health
MEDITERRANEAN SCHOOL OF MEDICAL STATISTICS AND CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
1997-2000
PhD: Faculty of
Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Title of qualification: PhD (pharmacy) - thesis
“Research on the chronic patient’s
compliance”
2000-2003
Postgraduate specialization education course: Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Title of qualification: Specialist in Organization and economic of distribution and pharmaceutical practice
July, 2003 - Further education course, Federation of the scientific-technological unions, Sofia, Bulgaria
METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES
April, 2005 - Further education course on HOSPITAL
PHARMACY “PharmAssist”, module 2/2005;
Union of the Pharmacists in Bulgaria, GlaxoSmithKline-Bulgaria
April, 2005 - Further education course on PHARMACEUTICAL
MARKETING, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria,
Institute D'Administration Des Entreprises, Universite de Nantes, France
March-April, 2006 - Specialization in the Department of Social Pharmacy, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacotherapy and Pharmaceutical care, RUG University of Groningen, the Netherlands
PHARMACEUTICAL CARE
2004-2007
Postgraduate specialization education course: Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Title of qualification: Specialist in Organization and economic of pharmaceutical manufacturing
Memberships in academic and professional associations:
1999-2003 - Member of the Academic Council, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Since 1999 - Casher of EURO DURG -Bulgaria
Since 2000 - Member of the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Society
Since 2005 - Member of International Society of History of Pharmacy
Since 2008 - Member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Skills:
Written and oral communication; Computer skills (Windows, Excel, Word, Power Point,
professional software)
Driving License: Clear

Some recent publications:
1.
Zl.
D. Dimitrova, V. B. Petkova: Cancer, drug medication and
noncompliance, Boll
Chim Farm,
Milano, 139, 3: 146-148, 2000.
2.
Zl.
D. Dimitrova, V. B. Petkova: The compliance of the community and
private pharmacies’ patients, Boll Chim Farm, Milano, 139,
6:126-129, 2000.
3.
V. B.Petkova, Zl.D.Dimitrova, I. Getov:
An attempt for complex assessment of the elderly patients’ compliance, Boll
Chim Farm, Milano, 140, 2:103-107, 2001.
4.
V.
Petkova,
Zl. Dimitrova: Asthma, drug medication and noncompliance, Boll Chim Farm,
Milano, 141, 5: 355-356, 2002.
5.
V. Petkova, Zl. Dimitrova: Pharmaceutical practice, Pharmaceutical
carе
and pharmacy education in Bulgaria, Pharmacy Education, London, 3 (3): 205-207,
2003.
6.
Petkova, V., Georgiev St., Dimitrova Zl. Research on the implementation
of the pharmaceutical care in the pharmacy practice of Sofia, Bulgaria, full
text proceedings of the 11th Panhellenic pharmaceutical
congress, Athens, Greece, 29-31,
March, 2003, European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Vol.28,
2003, No1, p.81-82
7. Petkova V: The role of information for improvement of patients’ treatment in Bulgaria, Centr. Eur. J. Publ. Hlth., 12 (2): 69-74, 2004.
8. V.Petkova, A. Antonova, Zl.Dimitrova: The pharmaceutical care and self-treatment. Sofia, Healthcare management, 6, 20-26, 2004, (in Bulgarian)
9.
V.
Petkova:
The economical effect of a pharmaceutical education on patients with asthma,
full text proceedings of the 12th Panhellenic
Pharmaceutical Congress, Athens, 2005, European Journal of Drug Metabolism and
pharmacokinetics, Vol. 30, 2005, 38.
10. V. Petkova: Evaluation of the impact of a pharmaceutical care program on patients with asthma, Ankara Ecz. Fac. Der., 34 (4) 251-262, 2005
11. V.
Petkova: Physicians, pharmacists and
patients’ compliance with chronic treatment in Bulgaria, Pharmacoepidemiology
and drug safety, Vol. 15, 8, 607-612
12. V. Petkova, St. Georgiev,
Zl. Dimitrova, M. Radivoeva: Implementation of pharmaceutical care knowledge in
Bulgarian community pharmacies, Pharmacy education, Vol 6 (2), 107-110
13. V. Petkova,
G. Petrova: Pilot project for education of patients with type 2 diabetes by
pharmacists, Acta Diabetologica, Vol 43 (2), pp 34-42
14.
Petkova V.,
Ivanova A, Petrova G.: Education of patients with diabetes in the community
pharmacies (pilot project in Bulgaria), J. Fac. Pharm Ankara, Ankara,
35(2), 111-124
15. O. Palaveev, Zl.
Dimitrova, N. Ovcharova, V. Petkova, M. Sefanova, St. Ivanova:
Assessment of the decreased productivity of patients with diabetes type 2 in the
Clinical Endocrynological Center Sofia, Bulgaria. Pharmacy Practice,
4(4), 204-207
16.
V. Petkova, G. Petrova: Educating
patients with type 2 diabetes in community pharmacy. Hospital Pharmacy Europe,
32, 61-62
17.
K. Todorova, Palaveev O, Petkova V.,
Stefanova M., Dimitrova Zl.: A pharmcoeconomical model for choice of a treatment
for pregnant women with gestational diabetes. Acta Diabetologica,
Vol. 44(3), 144-148
18.
V.
Petkova:
Pharmaceutical care for asthma patients: a community pharmacy based pilot
project. Allergy and asthma proceedings,Volume
29, Number 1, 1/2 , 55-61,
19.
Naboko D.,
V.Petkova and Zl.
Dimitrova: Combination of different marketing strategies for increase of
the antismoking drug sales. Journal of Medical Marketing, 8,
144–150
Books:
1. Social pharmacy and pharmaceutical legislation, Practical
handbook, G. Petrova, D. Dimitrov, M. Stefanova, I. Getov, V.
Petkova, T. Todorov, Sofia, Infopharma, 2002,
2. Pharmaceutical care, Zl. Dimitrova, V. Petkova,
Sofia, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University Printing House, 2005,
3.
