Physician with three medical specialties in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oncology and Surgery. Honorary Rector of the Medical University, Pleven.

Professor Grigor Gortchev is awarded with the Honorary Sign of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria and has been twice awarded with the honorary sign of Bulgarian Medical Association (BMA) for his outstanding contribution to the healthcare in the country. He is the first certified specialist in robot-assisted surgery in Eastern Europe, who have implemented and developed the method in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe. He has performed the first laparoscopic-assisted extended hysterectomy with pelvic lymph dissection of a woman with uterine cervical cancer in 1st stage in 2004 for the South Eastern Europe; as well as for the first time he operated a female patient having the same disease, performing laparoscopic surgical intervention preserving her child-bearing functions with the purpose of in vitro fertilization, 2004.

He has performed the first robot-assisted operation of a woman with uterine cervical carcinoma preserving her child-bearing functions in Eastern Europe in September 2010. 

Apart from introducing robot-assisted surgery in Gynecology, he is also pioneering  the application of non-invasive HIFU technologies in the treatment of solid tumors in Bulgaria. Professor Gortchev is a member of the French Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, European Society of Medical Oncology and the Society of Robotic Surgery in the USA. He is a Council member of the Society of European Robotic Gynecological Surgery (SERGS) and a co-founder of the South Eastern European Robotic Society (SEERS). He is the author of 5 monographs, 189 articles in scientific magazines and journals, 139 scientific presentations in the country and abroad and 3 scientific movies.