Emil Filipov, MD is the head of the abdominal surgery department at ‘Heart and Brain’ Pleven. He has a specialty in surgery and over fifteen years of practice. In his professional career he has worked in the clinic of coloproctology and purulent-septic surgery. His main interests are in minimal access surgery, robotic surgery, oncologic surgery, emergency and military surgery and medical education.

He has undergone courses in laparoscopic surgery and liver surgery at the MMA Sofia and IRCAD – France. He is certified in intraoperative hepatic ultrasonography and ultrasonography-guided surgery in Milan, Italy, ultrasonographic diagnosis of pathology of the pelvis and perineum in Treviso, Italy, clinical nutrition, transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM and TAMIS), surgical treatment of rectal cancer in Ljubljana, Slovenia. oncologic surgery. In 2023 he became certified as a console surgeon and performed interventions with the DaVinci X robotic system.

Organized and implemented a program for the treatment of patients with peritoneal cancer and advanced malignancies of the stomach, colon and ovary with cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy – HIPEC, PIPAC.

He is a member of European associations of coloproctology and surgical oncology surgeons.