Prof. Elitsa Encheva, MD, PhD is a Radiation Oncologist with over 20 years of experience, head and founder of the Radiation Oncology Clinic, St. Marina University Hospital, Varna, head of the Radiotherapy Department at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Metabolic Therapy and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Varna. 

She graduated from Medical University of Sofia in 2003. In 2009, she obtained a specialty in radiotherapy, and in 2011, he received her PhD degree. Since 2014, she has been an associate professor, and since 2018, a professor at MU-Varna – Department of Imaging and Radiotherapy. Since 2014, she has been a master in “Public Health and Health Management”. She has specialized in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Germany, Serbia, Switzerland, etc.

She is the only Bulgarian Radiation Oncologist who was a member of the teaching faculty in in 3 ISRS training courses and who held a ISRS webinar, as her experience in this field dates back to 2006.

She is an author of over 100 scientific papers with IF over 25 and over 250 citations in foreign journals, hi-index 9. Author of 1 monograph on radiotherapy in children. Numerous participations in national and international forums. Co-author of 1 international monograph and of the textbook on Neurosurgery in 3 volumes.

She is a member of the Guild of Radiation Therapists in Bulgaria, BAR, ESTRO, ISRS, ESMO.

Prof. Encheva is the holder of an honorary badge of the Bulgarian Medical Association in 2016 for contribution to the development and application of innovative medicine. In 2016 Prof. Dr. E. Encheva and the Radiotherapy Clinic, St. Marina University Hospital received the Varna Award 2016 for installation and commissioning of high-tech radiotherapy equipment.

Under the leadership of Prof. Encheva, all modern radiotherapy techniques for adults and children – IMRT, VMAT, IGRT, including radiosurgery SRS, SBRT – are being introduced into practice. Prof. Encheva and her team are the first in Bulgaria to introduce chemoradiation and hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy for lung cancer; planning of radiotherapy with PET-CT for various tumors; ABC deep inspiration breath hold technique irradiation for breast cancer and for radiosurgery of the lung, liver, etc.

The scientific interests of Prof. Encheva are versatile: radiation side effects and scales for their assessment, genetic markers for predicting individual sensitivity, SRS for brain metastases, SBRT, chemoradiation for lung cancer, head and neck tumors, gynecological tumors, tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, radiotherapy in children, brain tumors, prostate cancer, breast carcinoma, planning with modern imaging methods – PET-CT and MRI, modern radiotherapy techniques.