Dr Dimitrov was an Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton in 2012. He qualified in Medicine [MD] from the Trakia University (Stara Zagora, Bulgaria) in 1991 and held professional memberships with full licenses to practice to the General Medical Council (GMC) in UK and Bulgarian Medical Association. At graduation, he was appointed as an assistant professor in social medicine and health management (Faculty of Medicine, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria).
In 1994 he was awarded a degree in pollution and environmental control from Victoria University of Manchester [MSc]. He was further affiliated as a doctoral fellow, assistant professor and public health specialist/consultant with the Faculty of Medicine, Medical College and Department of Marketing & Health Management at the University Hospital "St. George" (Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria). During this period in Plovdiv, he completed his medical speciality of public health (social medicine and health management [SMHM]) and later was awarded a higher degree in public health (social medicine and organization of health care services and pharmacy [DM/PhD]). In 2000 he joined the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (Italy) as a senior scientist in biostatistics and clinical epidemiology. Since 2008 he had worked as a senior health outcomes manager at IMS Health (UK) and as a senior research fellow / programme manager & coordinator of the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. After four years of invaluable work to the HRB Centre, he had been appointed as a senior lecturer in medical statistics at the University of Southampton. He was fluent in English, Italian, French, Russian and Bulgarian (native) languages.