Milen Minkov is currently a Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Clinic of Neonatology, Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital, Vienna, Austria. He is a Consultant for Pediatric Hematology and Chair of the International LCH Study Reference Center at St. Anna Children´s Hospital, Medical University of Vienna. 

Dr. Minkov graduated from the Russian State Medical University, Moscow in 1991 and had his residency and fellowship in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology at the Russian Federal Institute for Pediatric Hematology in Moscow and later in St. Anna Children’s Hospital in Vienna. 

Between 1996 and 2012, he worked in St. Anna Children’s Hospital, where he provided clinical care, supervised trainees, administered the Department of Outpatient Hematology/Oncology, and conducted clinical research at the Children’s Cancer Research Institute. He has been actively involved in teaching and supervision of medical students at the Medical University of Vienna since 1997 (Assistant Professor 1997-2007; Assoc. Professor 2007-2012; Professor of Pediatrics since 2012). Since 2012, he has been a mentor at the Open Medical Institute of the American-Austrian Association and a member of the Honorary Board of the Armenian Association of Hematology and Oncology. 

Dr. Minkov´s clinical experience covers the full spectrum of pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology, with a particular expertise in non-malignant hematology. His research has mainly been focused on LCH. He has more than 80 published papers in peer-reviewed medical journals, contributed to a number of book chapters, guidelines and consensus papers. Dr. Minkov was the first awardee of the Mark Nesbit Award for Clinical Science (1997). He is member of several professional societies and networks and medical advisor of patients and parent organizations.