NATIONAL SPORT ACADEMY<br />"VASSIL LEVSKI"
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Prof. Maria Toteva, D.Sc.

Faculty of Public Health, Health Care and Tourism
Deapartment of Sports Medicine
Sports medicine
Contacts:

Day and place of birth: 21 December 1934

Education and career

1958 - 1960 General Practitioner

1960 - up till present lecturer on Sports Medicine at National Sports Academy, Sofia,

Lecturing in various graduated and post graduate levels on: Physical Development of Sports Active People, Functional Analysis and Observation of Various Sports, Sports Medicine Control of Young Athletes and Female Sports, Sports Traumatology, Sports Hygiene, Nutrition and Sports and others.

1970 - up till present visiting lecture at Bulgarian following University of Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo, Shumen, Russe.

2002 - up till present a guest professor in Master Degree program in Sofia University.

Academic Achievement: 1979 - Ph. D.

Thesis on Physical Development of Athletes

1983 - Associate Professor

1983 - D. Sc. Thesis on Somatotype Characteristics of Athletes

1995 - Professor of Sports Medicine Thesis in Somatotype in Sport


Pedagogical activity

Working Experience:

Administrative Posts:

1989 - 1999 Dean of Kinesitherapy Faculty

1989 - 1997 Head of Sports Medicine Department

1989 - 2001 member of the Academy Consul of the Sports Academy

1995 - 2000 member of the State Commission awarding medical specialty to Doctors of Sports Medicine

Scientific Positions: 1996 - 2001 President of the Bulgarian

Scientific Society of Sports Medicine

1996 - 2004 Member of the Scientific Consul of Institute of Morphology and Anthropology at

the Bulgarian Academy of Science

2001 International Scientist of the year 2002 awarded by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England

2002 Honorable member of the Bulgarian Scientific Society of Sports Medicine

2004 Honorable member of the Institute of Morphology and Anthropology at the Bulgarian Academy of Science.

2004 - 2007 Member of Scientific Consul in Sports Sciences

2006 First Honorable member of Balkan Scientific Society of Sports Medicine

Membership in various Bulgarian Scientific Society of Sports Medicine

scientific formations: Balkan Scientific Society of Sports Medicine

FIMS European Society of Sports Medicine (EFSMA)

Int. Soc. for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK)


Publications, books, guidances

Publications:

Approximately 130 in the field of Somatotypology, Physical Development, Body Composition, etc.