Dr. Stanimir Hasurdjiev is one of the founders and chairperson of the National Patient Organization (NPO). In 2005, he initiated the establishment of the National Association for Fighting Hepatitis “Hepasist”. He has represented Bulgarian patients several times as a member of the Oversight Council of the National Health Care Fund

He was the Executive Director and Chairman of the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA), as well as a member of the Management Board of the European Patient Forum (EPF), a pan-European organization whose main goals are patient empowerment and their involvement in the development of innovative health policies. 

He has been actively involved in the topic concerning the inequalities in the health care of the member states in the EU. As a result, in December 2014, the partnership on European level for access to high quality health care – Patient Access Partnership – was set up by the National Patients’ Organization and the European Patients’ Forum, in which Hasurdjiev took the position Secretary General of the Partnership.