Prof. Ilko Nikolaev Getov graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Higher Medical Institute – Sofia in 1988.

Since 1997 he has been an assistant / senior aassistant professor, since 2005 Associate Professor, and since 2013 Professor at the Department of Organization and Economics of Pharmacy.

He defended his PhD dissertation in the specialty: Social Medicine and Organization of Health and Pharmacy on “Pharmacoepidemiological studies on the use of antibiotics and psychotropic drugs.”

He has post-graduated specialties in Organization and Economics of Distribution and Pharmacy Practice, Clinical Pharmacy and Hospital Pharmacy acquired in MU-Sofia and MU-Varna.

He currently holds the position of Full time Professor at the Department of Organization and Economics of Pharmacy and is Chairman of the General Assembly of the Faculty of Pharmacy for the term 2021-2025. Participates in the training in “Social Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation”, “Pharmacoeconomics”, “Medical Devices”, “Pharmacoepidemiology”, “Hospital Pharmacy”, “Regulation of clinical trials” in Bulgarian and English.

Prof. Getov’s research work and contributions are in the following areas of pharmaceutical and/or medical science and practice: Pharmacovigilance, Pharmaceutical and drug regulation, Clinical pharmacy, Pharmacoepidemiology, Clinical trials.

He is the author of 182 publications, 12 textbooks, 15 monographs and chapters of monographs with over 300 citations in indexed journals in J. Citation Reports by Clarivate, Scopus by Elsevier, Web of science by Clavirate, Google scholar and others.

Participant and/or leader of 5 research projects funded by the NSF, SMN of MU-Sofia and others.

Member of the editorial board of scientific journals – European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (IF 1.652/2020); Biotechnology & Biotechnologycal Equipment (IF 1.632/2020); Enliven: Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety; Journal of Pharmacovigilance; Scripta Scientifica Pharmaceutica; Annual for Hospital Pharmacy; Bulgarian Journal of Public Health, etc.

Member of expert groups – Chairman of the Management Board of Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Union 2013-2020; First Vice President of the Pharmaceutical Group of the EU – 2016; Chairman of the HTA Commission 2017-2019; Member of the CHMP of the EMA – from 24.10.2020 to the present.

Member of professional organizations and associations – Bulgarian Scientific Pharmaceutical Society; Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Union; Professional Organization of Hospital Pharmacists in Bulgaria; Bulgarian Association of Oncology Pharmacy