Dr. Stoyanov graduated in medicine in 1988, obtained a specialty in General Surgery in 1994 and a specialty in Thoracic Surgery in 2000.

Dr. Stoyanov worked as the head of the Department of Pulmonary Surgery at the Sofia Medical University from 2000 to 2015, at the Kuwait Military Hospital. He has completed courses on abdominal ultrasound and surface structures – I level, basics of laparoscopic surgery, ductal approaches for evaluation and treatment of women with mammary gland discharge, imaging, bronchology, control and prevention of nosocomial infections, „Breast Cancer and Melanoma“ .

Dr. Stoyanov is a member of the Association for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and the Society for Thoracic Surgery.