Petranka Shikerova, MD graduated in medicine in 1987 from the Medical University of Pleven with excellent grades. She specialized in internal medicine in 1997 and cardiology in 2007. She is deputy head of the cardiology clinic at SofiaMed University Hospital.

She holds a certificate for basic and expert level in echocardiography and a certificate for Doppler sonography.

In 2015, she was named Doctor of the Year, and in 2018, she was ranked in the “Doctors We Trust” list.

She speaks French and Russian.