The Department was established in 1996 with Head of Department Assoc. Prof. Kolyu Vlahov and was called “Surgery and Physiotherapy with Clinic”. In 1999 the name was changed to “Surgery, radiology, obstetrics and gynecology and biotechnology of reproduction”, due to merging with the department of “Obstetrics”, with Head of Department Prof. Lyubomir Naydenov Kanchev, DCs. In 2000 the Head of the Department was Assoc. Prof. Bogdan Yanev Aminkov, PhD, DVMSc. Since 2008 the Department has been divided into two separate departments, one with the name “Surgery, anesthesiology, radiology, state veterinary medicine and public health”, headed by Prof. Bogdan Aminkov PhD, DVMSc and „Obstetrics, gynecology, biotechnology of reproduction, pathological anatomy and biochemistry “, headed by prof. Parvan Parvanov, PhD, DVMSc.

Since 2016 the two departments have been re-transformed into the Department of “Surgery, radiology, obstetrics, and gynecology”. Head of Department is prof. Parvan Mitov Parvanov, PhD, DVMSc, and from February 2018 the Department is headed by Assoc. Prof. Nadya Zlatozareva Zlateva-Panayotova, PhD, DVM. In 2020, for a short period, the position was taken by Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Hristov Mehandzhiyski, PhD, DVM. From 2020 to the present, the head of the department is Assoc. Prof. Nadia Zlatozarova Zlateva-Panayotova, PhD, DVM.

In 2024, the department employs two associate professors, three chief assistants and three assistants.

The obligatory disciplines taught in the department are “Propaedeutics of surgical diseases in animals”, “Radiology”, “Anesthesiology and emergency veterinary medicine”, Module “Surgery” and Module “Obstetrics” /diseases of small animals, diseases of equids, diseases of farm animals/, “Obstetrics, reproduction and reproductive disorders /obstetrics – general part, andrology and artificial insemination/”, “Herd health management”, Mobile clinic of Surgery and Obstetrics.
The elective disciplines “Veterinary Dentistry”, “Physiotherapy” and “Neurology and Neurosurgery” are also taught in the department.

Scientific research is in the field of clinical and experimental surgery and anesthesiology, imaging diagnostics, oncology, veterinary orthopedics and dentistry, ophthalmology, regenerative medicine, obstetrical and gynecological diseases and inflammation of the mammary gland in animals, reproduction in productive animals and artificial insemination, reproduction in dogs and cats, reproductive endocrinology and physiology, reproductive pathology, diseases in newborns, veterinary neonatology and pediatrics.