Dr. Alexander Gerchev, MD
Orthopedic specialist
Dr. Alexander Gerchev, MD
Dr. Alexander Gerchev, MD is an orthopedic specialist in Sofia with over 10 years of medical experience. He performs diagnostics and treatment of adult patients and children with diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system.
Education
Graduated from the Medical University of Sofia in 2015. He obtained his specialty in Orthopedics and Traumatology in 2021. He has a scientific and educational degree of “doctor” after defending a dissertation on the topic: Deformities of the pediatric foot. 2023 Won a competition for chief assistant at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Medical University of Sofia
Qualifications
Courses in orthopedics and traumatology of the European Association, for hip and knee endoprosthetics, in advanced foot surgery and for fractures in children;
Academy for Knee Endoprosthetics in Hamburg;
Certificates for endoprosthetics of large joints and ultrasound of hip joints in children;
Fellowship to the European Association of Foot Surgery;
Over 25 scientific publications;
Member of the Bulgarian Medical Union, Bulgarian Orthopedic Traumatology Association, Society of Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology, European Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology and EFAS.
Biography
From 2010 to 2013 he practiced on a voluntary basis in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the “Prof. Alexander Gerchev” Etropole Hospital, and from 2012 to 2013 – as a volunteer at the Sofiamed University Hospital. In 2014 he started working at the Clinic of Pediatric Orthopedics and Upper Limb Surgery at the USBALO Prof. B. Boychev. In 2018 he was appointed assistant professor at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Medical University of Sofia. He is currently part of the specialist teams of MDC Mediva and Diagnostic Center ‘Heart’. He speaks German and English.