Assoc. Prof. Anatoly Karashmalakov graduated from the Stara Zagora University of Medical Sciences in 1990. He has two acquired specialties – in surgery (1997) and oncology (2000), and over 25 years of experience as a surgeon and university lecturer. In recent years she has been a national consultant in surgery. In 2014 he defended his dissertation for the award of the degree of Doctor of Education and Science in Surgery. In 2016, he was elected Associate Professor of Surgery.

Over the years, he underwent specializations in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, hepatopancreatic surgery, gastric and colon oncosurgery.

His professional and research interests are in the field of laparoscopic and robotic surgery, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, gastric and colon oncosurgery, mammary and thyroid surgery. He has over 100 papers and presentations presented and published in the most prestigious Bulgarian and international medical forums and scientific journals, such as Lancet Oncology, Annals of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery, Hepatogastroenterology, etc.

Since 2022 he has been Head of the Surgery Clinic at the Heart and Brain Center of Excellence in Burgas.