Ted Popov

Todor (Ted) A. Popov graduated medicine at the Medical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. He acquired specialties in Internal Medicine and Clinical Allergology, defended a PhD thesis on airway responsiveness and cough in 1991. He spent 2 years as visiting professor at McMaster University in Canada. His areas of interest include asthma diagnosis and treatment, allergic rhinitis, non-invasive methods for assessment of airway inflammation, bronchial reactivity and cough reflex measurements, food and drug allergy, chronic urticaria, angioedema, biostatistics, planning and design of research studies. He is holder of over ten national and international patents. He has a rich publishing history and is member of the editorial board and reviewer of international and Bulgarian medical journals. He is ambassador of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), member and co-author of the Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) group; former president of the World Asthma Association ‘INTERASMA’, former vice president of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), former member of the Board of Directors of the World Allergy Organization (WAO), international distinguished member of European, American and other societies, former president of the Union of the Bulgarian Scientific Societies. He is now active member of committees and task forces of different international organizations in the field of pulmonary diseases, allergology and immunology. He is managing a medical center for clinical trials (MC “Excelsior”) since 2014.