Assoc. Prof. Dr. Krasimira Hristova is specialist cardiologist, expert of echocardiography at University National Heart Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria and consulting cardiologist at Nadezhda Women’s Hospital , Sofia, Bulgaria . She earned a PhD in applying the newest echocardiographic methods for evaluating the myocardial deformation in patients, following acute myocardial infarction. Assoc. Prof. Hristova specialized in top-ranked universities in Austria and Belgium. She has earned a master’s degree in Advance Medical Imaging in cardiology at Catholic University Leuven, Belgium in 2009. She took part in the development and clinical implementation of the first software for 3D myocardial deformation, working in an international team with colleagues from Belgium and Norway. Authored many scientific papers, holder of the Young Researcher award of the International Society of Hypertension in 2006, she has received honors from multiple national and international organizations.