Abstract

Dimitar Nenov (1933-2024), was born in the village Pobit Kamak in an affluent family. Bulgaria entered in the USSR orbit following the invasion of the Soviet Army and the coup d’état of September 9, 1944 (Socialistic Revolution). Following that event the agricultural properties of the family were confiscated because of state collectivism. There was only one possibility to emerge, that was to study a lot. He received the MD in 1957 from the University of Sofia. He specialized in Medicine and later in Nephrology studying at the universities of Prague, Bologna, Parma and Moscow. Assistant in the Department of Medicine of the University of Varna since 1962, became associate professor (1973) and full professor (1985). Since 1973, he was head of the nephrology clinic and founder of the first hemodialysis department. He was head of the united Department of Medicine (1987-1992), and of the Department of Nephrology, Hemodialysis and Hematology (1992-2001). He started the Varna Kidney Foundation, the yearly Varna Seminar in Nephrology, the journal Aktualna Nefrologia and was co-founder of the International Federation of Kidney Foundations. He was a founder of the Balkan Cities Association of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs (BANTAO), an association of cities, not of nations, becoming the first president and Editor in Chief of the BANTAO Journal. Honorary professor at the Universities of Prague and Skopje, founder of the Bulgarian Branch of the European Association of Professors Emerit, he organized in Varna with the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies a yearly event “Survival Is Not Enough”.

Keywords: Dimitar Nenov, University of Varna, BANTAO, BANTAO Journal