Department of Dermatology and Venereology at Medical University Pleven was created in 1977 on the basis of the regional Dispensary on Dermatology and Venereology. The first head of the Department was Assoc.Prof. Belizar Bajdekov, who has been replaced by Prof. Jeljo Chechmedjiev because of severely illness in the same year. After his retirement, from 1982 till 2003, the Department was managed by Assoc.Prof. Mariana Traschlieva. Since 2003 the Department of Dermatology and Venereology have been guided by Assoc. Prof. Dimitar Gospodinov. The Department became a part of an integrated Department of “Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Dermatology and Venereology” at the Medical Faculty, Medical University Pleven, in 2008.