Prof. Maria Toteva, D.Sc.
Day and place of birth: 21 December 1934
Education and career
1958 - 1960 General Practitioner
1960 - up till present lecturer on Sports Medicine at National Sports Academy, Sofia,
Lecturing in various graduated and post graduate levels on: Physical Development of Sports Active People, Functional Analysis and Observation of Various Sports, Sports Medicine Control of Young Athletes and Female Sports, Sports Traumatology, Sports Hygiene, Nutrition and Sports and others.
1970 - up till present visiting lecture at Bulgarian following University of Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo, Shumen, Russe.
2002 - up till present a guest professor in Master Degree program in Sofia University.
Academic Achievement: 1979 - Ph. D.
Thesis on Physical Development of Athletes
1983 - Associate Professor
1983 - D. Sc. Thesis on Somatotype Characteristics of Athletes
1995 - Professor of Sports Medicine Thesis in Somatotype in Sport
Pedagogical activity
Working Experience: Administrative Posts: 1989 - 1999 Dean of Kinesitherapy Faculty 1989 - 1997 Head of Sports Medicine Department 1989 - 2001 member of the Academy Consul of the Sports Academy 1995 - 2000 member of the State Commission awarding medical specialty to Doctors of Sports Medicine Scientific Positions: 1996 - 2001 President of the Bulgarian Scientific Society of Sports Medicine 1996 - 2004 Member of the Scientific Consul of Institute of Morphology and Anthropology at the Bulgarian Academy of Science 2001 International Scientist of the year 2002 awarded by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England 2002 Honorable member of the Bulgarian Scientific Society of Sports Medicine 2004 Honorable member of the Institute of Morphology and Anthropology at the Bulgarian Academy of Science. 2004 - 2007 Member of Scientific Consul in Sports Sciences 2006 First Honorable member of Balkan Scientific Society of Sports Medicine Membership in various Bulgarian Scientific Society of Sports Medicine scientific formations: Balkan Scientific Society of Sports Medicine FIMS European Society of Sports Medicine (EFSMA) Int. Soc. for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK)
Publications, books, guidances
Publications: Approximately 130 in the field of Somatotypology, Physical Development, Body Composition, etc.