ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS OF IMAB:
The Journal of the International Medical Association Bulgaria (IMAB) was initiated and started as a printed edition in 1995. At the beginning the Journal included published papers of all presented lectures and posters at the Annual Assembly of IMAB.
The initial publications of the Journal of IMAB “Annual Proceeding (Scientific Papers) IMAB”, with ISSN 1310 7232, were printed in two volumes every year (Book “Medicine” and Book “Dentistry”) in Bulgarian, later in English.

ONLINE JOURNAL OF IMAB:
From 2004 the Journal of IMAB is published only online with ISSN 1312 773X (website: www.journal-imab-bg.org). The Journal provides free access to the full text of published articles and their authors.
Since June 2010 the Journal is a member of CrossRef and is included in the Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System with its own DOI  prefix: 10.5272.
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All papers published in the Journal from 2010 and further on, after being deposited in CrossRef, receive personalized DOI numbers. The authors with published papers in 2010 will receive personalized DOI numbers for their articles after they are deposited in CrossRef.



ASSEMBLY OF IMAB:
The First Assembly (the time of the foundation of IMAB) was in May 1990 and since then every year, in the first half of May (some exceptions were the Assemblies at the end of May, but after the Millennium it was decided to keep the first week-end of May), IMAB organizes its Annual meetings in Varna, Bulgaria.
This forum was, is, and will be, the scientific, professional and cultural meeting of medical doctors, dentists and pharmacists from around the World.
The Jubilee 20-th Annual Assembly of IMAB was organized 6-9 May 2010 again in Varna as a joint forum in close cooperation and association with the ISC, FESCI and ESC as The First South-East European Conference on Chemotherapy, Infections and Cancer. This Conference attracted over 300 Bulgarian participants and over 250 foreign participants from over 58 countries, with over 150 plenary lectures in 5 parallel sessions every day, over 100 oral short communications and over 200 posters.
The Conference was the biggest and most active medical forum ever organized in Bulgaria for the last 20 years. There were representatives of the National societies of all European countries, plus Israel, USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Uganda, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Argentina, Australia, Cambodia, Haiti. This Jubilee 20-th Annual Assembly of IMAB gave the start of the South-East European Conference on Chemotherapy, Infections and Cancer and it was decided to organize the Second Conference in Belgrade, October 2011. The decision has been taken in Varna, on 9 May 2010, with the votes of the Presidents of ISC (T. Mazzei and K. Naber), President of FESCI (A. Novelli), Secretary General of FESCI (Kr. Metodiev), Board members of ISC, FESCI, ESC and IMAB (I. Gould, F. Scaglioni, V. Krcmery, G. Papas, G. Petrikkos, S. Stefani, M. Cizman, M. Pelemis, H. Ozsut, E. Mini, B. Barsic, G. Usluer, M. Petrovska, M. Hukic, G. Kyuchukov, A. Kisselova, B. Petrunov, G. Wassilew, O. Savov, K. Kaprelyan, A. Klissarova, V. Delchev, P. Kossev, P. Lazarova).