Assoc. Prof. Milena Encheva, MD, is the head of the Pulmonology and Phthisiology Clinic at Heart and Brain Hospital in Burgas. She graduated in medicine from the Medical University of Sofia and has specializations in Internal Medicine and Pulmonology and Phthisiology.
Her professional career includes work at the St. Marina University Hospital in Varna, and since 2004 she has been an assistant and senior assistant at the Clinic of Pulmonary Diseases at the Military Medical Academy in Sofia. In 2017, she took up the academic position of associate professor at the same clinic, and from 2019 to 2024, she is the head of the clinic. From 2020 to 2025, he headed the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pneumology, Phthisiology, and Metabolic Diseases at the Military Medical Academy in Sofia, and he is also a member of the Academic Council of the Military Medical Academy.
In 2008, he won a scholarship from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) for training in interventional pulmonology in Marseille, France. Since then, he has been actively working in the field of interventional pulmonology. In 2012, she defended her dissertation on “The therapeutic effect of stenting in benign tracheobronchial stenosis.” Assoc. Prof. Encheva participates in the training of medical students, doctoral students, and residents at the Pulmonary Diseases Clinic at the Military Medical Academy in Sofia. She teaches individual courses on “Interventional Pulmonology.”
Assoc. Prof. Encheva performs diagnostic and therapeutic interventional bronchoscopic procedures, functional respiratory testing, diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, treatment of patients with chronic respiratory failure (oxygen therapy, NIV), and other activities in the field of diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases, as well as outpatient examinations at the Heart and Brain Medical Center in Burgas after prior appointment at the clinic’s reception desk.

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