Speakers CV
Prof. James C. Kirkpatrick (Germany) has a triple doctorate in science and medicine (MD, PhD, DSc) from the Queen’s University of Belfast (N. Ireland) and since 1993 is Professor of Pathology and Chairman of the Institute of Pathology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Previous academic appointments were in pathology at the University of Ulm (1980-1985), Manchester University, UK (1985-1987) and the RWTH Aachen (1987-1993). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), London (since 1997) and an Honorary Professor at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing and the Sichuan University in Chengdu, China (both since 2004). C. James Kirkpatrick is author/coauthor of 430 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and more than 1200 presentations to scientific meetings worldwide. He is a former President of both the German Society for Biomaterials (2001-2005) and the European Society for Biomaterials (2002-2007), and from the latter he received in 2008 the George Winter Award for his contribution to biomaterials in Europe. In 2010 he was awarded the Chapman Medal from the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, London, UK for “distinguished research in the field of biomedical materials”. He is Visiting Professor at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore since 2012, and in 2013 he was made Visiting Professor of Biomaterials & Regenerative Medicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2014 he received the Career Achievement Award of TERMIS-EU. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Adrian Gh. Podoleanu University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
Adrian Podoleanu is the Head of the Applied Optics Group, Professor of Biomedical Optics in the School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and an investigator of the Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of ophthalmology, University College London (2012-2015). He is a visiting Professor in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, “Victor Babes” Medicine and Pharmacy University of Timisoara, Romania and was a Distinguished Visitor in the University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2013. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Technical University of Bucharest, Romania in 1984. He began his career teaching at the Technical University Bucharest, Romania. As an associate professor, he taught physics, optics and optoelectronics and developed research on lasers and fast optoelectronics. His current research interests are in optical coherence tomography (OCT). He has generated the first en-faceOCT image of the retina and has proven the operation of a combined OCT/scanning laser ophthalmoscopy instrument for the retina, combined OCT with assistive optical modalities such as adaptive optis and tracking. He was awarded: an European Research Concil Advanced Reserch Fellowship, 2010-2015; Ambassador’s Diploma, Embassy of Romania in the UK, 2009, Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2004–2006; The Romanian Academy “Constantin Miculescu” prize for research in Lasers and Nonlinear Optics in 1984. For achievements in ophthalmic imaging and OCT, he was elected a Fellow of SPIE in 2012 (he has also acted as the first Chairman (1992) and Past Chairman (1993) of the Romanian Chapter of SPIE, SPIE/RO). For major contributions to the science and engineering of biomedical optics, including contributions to OCT, retinal imaging and adaptive optics he was made a fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2012. In the same year, he was also elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK. He has been a PI of major grants, such as the ERC advanced fellowship mentioned above, 2MEuros, 2010–2015, coordinated a Marie Curie Early Stage Training Network with 3 HEs and 2 SMEs in Europe, 2.4 MEuros, 2006-2010 that supported 12 PhD students and 6 short term early stage researchers, a BBSRC grant £0.56 M (2006-2009) and several 3 years EPSRC grants each over 0.25M£. Currently, he is leading an European Industrial Doctorate jointly with NKT Denmark (2014-2018), 1.4 MEuros (2014-2018). He has received funding from several other charities, industrial partners and clinics. He currently supervises 4 postdoctoral researchers and 10 PhD students. He has published 11 book chapters, over 170 articles in peer reviewed journals, participated at over 500 conferences and seminars and was awarded 18 patents and delivered over 60 invited talks and seminars. He is a member in the editorial boards of 8 journals, chaired 8 international conferences and acted as a member in the organising committees of over 40 international conferences. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Associate Professor and Head of the Lab of Dental and Biomedical Materials at the Dept of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy. Current President of the Italian Society of Biomaterials, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Biomaterials and Functional Materials. She has strong and documented experience in the development and pre-clinical characterization (in-vitro and in vivo studies, microbiological and cell biological studies) of implantable biomaterials and nano-biomaterials mainly addressed for muscular-skeletal and dental tissues regeneration or substitution, and cancer treatment, having over 140 peer-reviewed journal publications, 4 books, 6 book chapters, six patents in the abovementioned areas. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Yasuhiko Tabata Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan |
Dr. Yasuhiko Tabata is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biomaterials at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University and a Professor of the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, and a Professor of the School of Life Dentistry, Nippon Dental College, Japan and serves as visiting professors at Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Engineering of 14 different universities. He received his BD in Polymer Chemistry (1981), Ph.D. (1988) in Polymer Science, D.Med.Sci. (2002) in Regenerative Medicine, and D.Pharm. (2003) in Pharmaceutical Sciences all at Kyoto University. He was a Visiting Scientist at the MIT (Professor Robert Langer) (1991-92). He has published 1300 scientific papers including 120 book chapters and review articles, and has 140 patents. He received the Young Investigator Award (1990), the Scientific Award from the Japanese Society for Biomaterials (2002), the Scientific Award from the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System (2011), Chandra P. Sharma Award of the International Society of Biomaterials & Artificial Organs (2011), the Scientific Award from the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine (2014), and several awards. He is an associate member of the Science Council of Japan, Cabinet Office and the New York Academy of Science and a fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Also, he was elected the Founding Fellow for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM). _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Kunio Ishikawa Kyushu University, Japan |
Prof. Kunio Ishikawa (Japan). Professor at Department of Biomaterials, Kyushu University, Japan
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Professor Jose Miguel Martin-Martinez University of Alicante, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Jose Miguel Martin-Martinez is Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, and Head and founder of the Adhesion and Adhesives Laboratory of the University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain). He graduated in Chemistry in 1978 at the University of Granada and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1981 at the same University. He was visiting Research in several laboratories in different countries: Centre de Microcalorimetrie (Marseille, France), Department of Chemical Engineering of Penn State University (State Park, Pennsylvania, USA), Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Department of Materials Science of Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA). Prof. Martín-Martínez has been invited as lecturer in several International Conferences and received several awards. He is a recognized expert in Adhesion Science and polymer-inorganic materials interface, polyurethane adhesives and bioadhesives for wound clousure. His professional and scientific activity comprises: handbooks/textbooks (22); book chapters and publications in journals (92); papers published in scientific journals in the ISI ranking (169); monographies (29); papers published in the proceedings of national conferences (131); papers published in the proceedings of international conferences (219); patents of invention (9); participating in different international or national research projects (22); heading of in different international or national research projects (89), projects for private national and international projects (113); direction of master degrees (40); direction of PhD (33); member and organizer of the scientific committee of different international meetings (28); invited lectures at international conferences (75). _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Corrado Piconi Catholic University of the Sacred Heart School of Medicine Rome, Italy |
After his studies in Roma he joined the Ceramics Technology Laboratory in the Casaccia Research Centre of the National Committee for Nuclear Energy (now ENEA), where he was involved in the characterization of the out-of-pile and in-pile behaviour of oxides used as nuclear fuels in close cooperation with the French Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) and of AGIP Nucleare SpA. In 1989, due to moratorium in nuclear reactor development in Italy, he transferred the know-how and technologies of his research group to the development of ceramics for clinical applications, with special emphasis on zirconia and on calcium phosphates. He left ENEA in 2000 and until 2005 he was R&D Project Manager in Tecnobiomedica SpA where he was involved in the development of orthopaedic prosthetic devices, on cardiovascular applications of tissue engineering and on the development of an implantable ventricular assistance device (VAD. On 1997 he was appointed as Lecturer in Biomaterials by School of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, where he is still teaching. He has been Scientific Coordinator of R&D Research Project funded by the European Union (Brite-Euram Programme Grants BE4635 and BE5172, as well Head of Joint Research Unit 063 in the framework of the Research Project Materials for Advanced Technologies II (MAST II) of National Research Council. He and his team are the winner with of the BIOLOX Award 2002, for research on the wear of ceramic bearings for total hip replacements. He is Scientific Consultant in GHIMAS SpA, and in the Clinical and Scientific Affairs direction of the Medical Products Division of CeramTec GmbH. He is author of about 90 papers on biomaterials published in national and international journals, congress proceedings and book chapters. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Ahmed El-Ghannam Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC 28223 USA
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Professor Alexandru-Vlad Ciurea "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania |
Alexandru-Vlad CIUREA (Romania), Prof. HC., M.D., PhD., MSc. 4 Titles of Doctor Honoris Causa (Dunarea de Jos University, School of Medicine, Galați, Romania; N. Testemițanu University School of Medicine, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova; Petre Andrei University, Iași, Romania; University of Oradea, School of Medicine, Oradea, Romania). _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Ilaria Cacciotti University of Rome "Niccolò Cusano" Rome, Italy |
Ilaria Cacciotti is an Associate Professor of Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, and Material Science and Technology. She is the Coordinator for Engineering Area, member of the Research Committee and of the Board of PhD Course in Industrial and Civil Engineering at the Engineering Department of University of Rome Niccolò Cusano. She has graduated in Medical Engineering (Master of Science Award ‘Fondazione Raeli’), completed her PhD in Materials Engineering, and has obtained II Level Master’s degrees in Forensic Genetics and in Protection against CBRNe events. She has spent research periods at Kyoto Institute of Technology-Piezotech (Japan) and ITRI-Deakin University (Australia). Her research activity is mainly focused on the synthesis and characterisation of nanoceramic, polymeric and composite materials, in forms of particles, spheres, films, fibres, for biomedical and food packaging application. She was awarded with 8th CCT Award “Best Oral Presentation for Young Researchers”, 10th International Award "Giuseppe Sciacca"-Young Students, European Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Doctoral Award, "Young Researcher Award Elsevier-Materials Science and Engineering: C", "Top Cited Author 2011-2012 ChemEngJ", "Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing" (MaterChem and Phys 2013).
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Angela R. Kamer, DDS, MS, PhD New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry, New York, USA |
Is associate professor at the Department of Periodontodlogy and Implant Dentistry, New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry, New York, USA. Her research activities and competences are in periodontology and implant dntistry and fields of diabetes, cancer research, bone research and alzheimer's disease. After completing her studies in Stomatology at the University "Iuliu Hatieganu" in Cluj Napoca, Romania, and practicing dentistry for a few years, Angela Kamer went on to receive her MS in Oral Sciences, Ph.D. in Pathology and training in Periodontics from SUNY at Buffalo and later in Implant Dentistry from New York University, USA. Subsequently, she started working at NYU College of Dentistry. As a trained periodontist at the College of Dentistry and a research scientist at NYU Center for Brain Health, Angela was in a unique position to bridge the medical-dental research gap by developing new hypotheses and strengthening collaborations across disciplines. Her research focused on the role of peripheral inflammation/infections in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Periodontal disease is a peripheral chronic infection affecting about 50% of people over 55 years of age and is characterized by high Gram-negative pathogenic bacterial load and often increased systemic inflammation. Studies coming from Angela’s group will present data showing that periodontal disease may contribute to AD-specific pathology and cognitive performance. She published in well-regarded peer-reviewed journals, she wrote book chapters, and presented to several international conferences. She also co-edited a book and a special journal issue. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Wenche S. Borgnakke DDS MPH PhD School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, USA |
Wenche Sylling Borgnakke is a Senior Research Associate in Health Sciences/Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan. She earned DDS and PhD degrees from the Royal Dental College in Copenhagen, Denmark, and a Master of Dental Public Health degree from the University of Michigan. Dr. Borgnakke has published 8 book chapters and about 70 papers, and is a reviewer for 32 scientific journals. Her latest chapter is called THE TRAVELING ORAL MICROBIOME. Dr. Borgnakke has lectured nationally and internationally -- in countries such as Canada, Cuba, The Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates. Dr. Borgnakke is a member of the CDC/AAP Workgroup on Periodontitis Surveillance, and The American Academy of Periodontology awarded Dr. Borgnakke a 2012 Special Merit award, the 2013 Clinical Research Award for a 2012 paper in the Journal of Dental Research on periodontitis in the US, and the 2016 Clinical Research Award for a 2015 paper in the Journal of Periodontology on the prevalence of periodontitis in the US. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Norina Consuela Forna University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, Romania |
Professor NORINA FORNA, PhD, DDS
Author of 22 monographs, 2 treaties, 9 textbooks and 2 book chapters, over 30 articles ISI indexed, over 40 articles PUBMED and BDI indexed and over 400 articles published in abstract or in extensor in the volumes of national and international scientific manifestations. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Kinga Laczkóné TURZÓ University of Szeged, Hungary |
Kinga Laczkóné TURZÓ (maiden name: Kinga Turzó) is a physicist (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) graduated in 1989 at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania. She gained her PhD. degree in physics (2000) at the University of Szeged, Hungary. In 2001, she achieved an Alfred Kastler fellowship in Strasbourg, at Université Louis Pasteur where she started to work on surface modifications of dental implants. Since 2001, she works at the Faculty of Dentistry (Department of Oral Biology and Experimental Dental Research), University of Szeged. She is an associate professor and the supervisor of 8 PhD students. Five of them already got their PhD degree in the field of biointegration of alloplastic materials. She is the leader of six national and international grants. In 2003 she was awarded with György Békésy post-doctoral fellowship and in 2011 with the János Bolyai research fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Science. Between 2012 and 2015 she was the vice-dean of the Faculty and in 2014 she received her habilitation. At present she is the dean of the Faculty. She is the member of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Continental European Division (CED) and also of the Association for Dental Education in Europe. Her main field of interest: biointegration of alloplastic materials, developing physical-chemical and biochemical surface modifications targeting the improvement of the biointegration of titanium dental implants. Used investigation methods: surface science methods (AFM, SEM, XPS), in vitro (tissue cell culture) and in vivo (animal) studies. Languages: Hungarian, English, French, Romanian. Marital status: married, two children. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Kiro Papakoca PhD “Goce Delcev” - University of Štip, MK |
tel. +389 32 550-425 e-mail: kiro.papakoca@ugd.edu.mk Degree MD, DDS, PhD Institution “Goce Delcev” - University of Department Faculty of Medical Sciences, Dental Medicine Position Professor (Assistant) Ph.D. – 2012 University of Medicine and Farmacy “Carol Davila”- Bucuresti, Faculty of Dentistry Specialization in oral surgery - 2006, University of Medicine and Farmacy “Carol Davila”- Bucuresti, Faculty of Dentistry, Hospital of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery "Prof. Dr. Dan Theodorescu". B.Sc. – 2003, University of Medicine and Farmacy “Carol Davila”- Bucuresti, Faculty of Dentistry Teaching Stomatology - clinical subjects. Research interests: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Pre-Prosthetic Surgery, Implant Dentistry _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Adrian Manescu University of Marche, Ancona, Italy |
Having a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics, Adrian Manescu is Teaching professor and Post-doc researcher in the group of Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine of the Odontostomatology and Specialized Clinical Sciences Department, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona (Italy). In the last years, his scientific activity has been focused on investigating, through advanced physical techniques (such as micro computed tomography, holotomography) based on X-ray synchrotron radiation, structural changes of various biomaterials and biological tissues, in fields like orthopedics, dentistry, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He is author of about 40 articles in international peer- reviewed journals and has 4 contributions in international spread books.
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Professor Iulian Antoniac University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
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Professor Dr. Ing. habil. Iulian Antoniac is a materials science engineer working in the field of biomaterials and medical devices. Professor Antoniac is the leader of Biomaterials Group from Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. His professional and scientific activity comprises: handbooks/textbooks (8) including publication of a book entitled “Biologically Responsive Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering” (Springer, 2012), papers published in SCI journals (50), papers in the conference proceedings (180), inventions (7), international or national research projects (76), member of the scientific committee of different meetings (30), president of international conferences (6), member of the International Editorial Board and reviewer for many journals and conferences on biomaterials, biomaterials applications in dentistry and orthopedics, member of different scientific associations at worldwide level. Also, he is the vicepresident of the Romanian Society for Biomaterials (SRB) and past president of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (ISCM). Professor Antoniac has been invited to deliver plenary or keynote lecture to different international conferences focused on biomaterials and tissue engineering, as well on their applications in dentistry and orthopedics. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Prof. Franco Rustichelli Polytechnical University of Marches, Ancona, Italy |
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Diana Dudea, PhD, DDS Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Diana Dudea, PhD, DDS is Habilitated Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is head of Dental Propedeutics and Esthetics Division, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry and Dental materials. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Guy Daculsi INSERM Research Director DRE |
Guy Daculsi is Research Director of INSERM (National Institute for Medical Research) from 1976. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Anca Jivanescu, DMD, PhD University of Medicine and Pharmacy ''Victor Babes'', Timisoara, Romania |
In 1988 Dr. Anca Jivanescu has graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry , “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara. Since then, she developed her professional and clinical activity as an Assistant Professor, then Lecturer and since 2015, as Associate Professor at the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry- Faculty of Dentistry Timisoara. She teaches fixed and removable prosthodontics, as well as digital dentistry since 2008. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Assoc. Prof. Luminita Maria Nica University of Medicine and Pharmacy ''Victor Babes'', Timisoara, Romania |
Dr. Nica Luminita Maria is Associate Professor at the „Victor Babeş" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timişoara, Romania, Faculty of Dental Medicine and she is currently in the position of Head of the Faculty's 3rd Department, and Head of the Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics Discipline. She graduated the Faculty of Dentistry from Timisoara in 1994 and she received her PhD in dental medicine in 2004. She has an experience of over 21 years in teaching and training students in Restorative dentistry, Endodontics and Periodontology. Since 2006 Dr. Nica coordinates the undergraduate students program for Endodontics for the 4th and 5th year of study, and since 2012 she was named Coordinator for the postgraduate students training program in Endodontics of the Faculty. She published more then 45 papers, 15 in ISI refereed journals and conference proceedings, and is the author or co-author of 17 monographies and books. She has 41 citations (excluding self-citations) and has a Hirsch Index= 3 (according to ISI Web of Knowledge 2016). She is an active speaker on Endodontics topics at Congresses organised in Romania and in the countries nearby, where she held over 50 conferences. Since 2005, dr. Nica organised in Timisoara and in Romania more then 30 workshops regarding modern endodontic instrumentation techniques, warm-vertical techniques of obturation, endodontic retreatment and restoration of endodontically treated teeth with fiber posts. Dr. Nica is the Director of the First International Endodontic Summer School organised in 2014 in Timisoara by the Romanian Society of Dental Microscopy in partnership with the Faculty of Dentistry. This summer school, organised each two years for the training of students and young doctors pationate of Endodontics, will attend next year its third edition. She is the vicepresident of the Romanian Society of Dental Microscopy and Founder Member of the Romanian Society of Dental Sciences. She was part of the research group that developed the first Time Domain Optical Coherence Tomography and the first Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Systems dedicated to dentistry in the Eastern Europe. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Monica Scrieciu DMD, PhD Faculty of Dental Medicine, UMF Craiova, Romania
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Monica Scrieciu DMD, PhD, Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry, Head of Removable Partial Dentures Department of Faculty of Dental Medicine, UMF Craiova, 2 Petru Rares, Craiova (Romania). Main activities and responsibilities: Organizing activity of the department. Research interest: prosthetic dentistry, histological and immunohistochemical pathology of gingival mucosa, oral health medicine and tooth wear. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Horia Manolea University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, Romania |
Horia Manolea is Professor at the Prostheses Technology and Dental Materials Department and currently Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, Romania. He graduated as valedictorian the Faculty of Dentistry in 2001, holds a PhD in Medicine and a Master degree in implant supported prosthesis. Research interests include resin restorative materials research, implant supported prosthesis technologies, the bioactive materials study, development of ceramic and metal-ceramic technology, dental and periodontal structures morphology study. His professional and scientific activity comprises 9 textbooks, 50 papers published in scientific journals of which 23 were published in ISI journals with impact factor, more than 100 papers published in abstract in the proceedings of international or national conferences, invited speaker at several national and international scientific meetings, reviewer for several specialty scientific journals. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Veronica Mercut University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, Romania |
DMD, PhD, Professor of Dental Prosthetics. Research interest: dental prosthetics, bruxism and tooth wear. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Sanda Mihaela Popescu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, Romania |
DMD, PhD, Professor of Oral Rehabilitation, Head of Department 1 of Faculty of Dental Medicine, UMF Craiova, 2 Petru Rares, Craiova (Romania). Main activities and responsibilities: Organizing activity of the department. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Virgil-Florin Duma Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania |
Virgil-Florin Duma is Professor of Engineering at the Aurel Vlaicu Univ. of Arad (UAVA), head and founder of the 3OM Optomechatronics Group, and currently PI of a PED and of a Bridge Project, as well as WP Responsible of a POC and a PTE grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research (http://3om-group-optomechatronics.ro/). In the last ten years Prof. Duma has thus secured funds in excess of 2M Euro for his group. He graduated in Fine Mechanics & Optics, valedictorian, in 1991, at the Polytechnic Univ. of Timisoara (UPT), Romania, and then received his PhD cum laude at UPT in 2001. He has worked at UPT since graduating until 2001, when he moved as an Assoc. Prof. at the UAVA, where he reached full professorship in 2006. He was awarded for 2009-2010 a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship at The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, NY, where he currently holds a Visiting Scientist position. He is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, UK, as well as Adjunct Prof. at the West Univ. of Timisoara and at UPT (at the latter, as PhD supervisor). Prof. Duma defended his Habilitation Thesis in 2013 at the Polytechnic Univ. of Bucharest. He is author of more than 240 publications in journals and conferences (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-3031-2010), 15 books & book chapters, 1 patent awarded. and 2 patent applications pending (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Virgil-Florin_Duma). His main research interests are in Measuring Systems, Optics, and Optomechatronics. Prof. Duma is a reviewer for more than 20 journals indexed in ISI Web of Science, has chaired and participated in the scientific committee of several conferences, and has delivered more than 25 invited lectures. For 2016-2020 he is a member of CNCS and CNATDCU. He is a member of OSA, a Senior Member of SPIE, and a Life Member of the Fulbright Association. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Mihai Rominu University of Medicine and Pharmacy ''Victor Babes'', Timisoara, Romania |
Univ. Prof. Dr. Mihai Rominu has graduated the Faculty of Dentistry, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania, in 1993. Since 1994 he works in the Department of Prostheses Technology and Dental Materials, being head of Department since 2000, University Professor since 2004 and PhD tutor since 2007. He was the dean of the Faculty of Dentistry Timisoara between April 2012 and November 2013. Between November 2013 and November 2015 he worked at the Danube Private University, Krems, Austria, Department of Prosthodontics and Biomaterials (Head Univ. Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Junker). The PhD title was acquired in 1999 with the dissertation “Contributions to the development of adhesive techniques”. He got his habilitation in 2017 with the thesis “Classic and modern assessments of dental interfaces”. His professional and research efforts are focused (but not limited to) on dental materials, prosthodontics, prostheses technology and the study of interfaces. The results of his research were published in ISI and BDI ranked journals and presented at different scientific events. Univ. Prof. Dr. Mihai Rominu is member of the Romanian Society of Biomaterials and the Romanian Society of Lasers in Dentistry. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Elvira Bratila “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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Elvira Brătilă, MD, PhD (42 years old)
I am an academic clinician, specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology, with significant experience in obstetric and gynecology ultrasonography, urogynecology and minimally invasive surgery. I am Professor at the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest where beside my clinical activity I teach students, residents, organize courses for continuous medical education and develop clinical research activities. In the field of continuous medical education I organized in Romania 24 courses, conferences, workshops and congresses in Obstetrics and Gynecology specialty. In 2015 I graduated a master in Biophysics and Cellular Biotechnology with the thesis “Evaluation of immunohistochemistry profile of endometriosis implants”. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Vicentiu Saceleanu University of Sibiu, Romania |
Dr. Vicentiu Saceleanu was born in 1968 in Sibiu-Romania , graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy „Iuliu Hațieganu„ Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1994, received his Ph.D. from Lucian Blaga University (Sibiu-2011) and since 2011 head of the Neurosurgical Department (County Hospital - Sibiu). Since 2000 he is a member of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery, AOS International , Medical College of Sibiu and since 2016 he became a member of the Romanian Society of Biomaterials. He was a Associate Professor at Lucian Blaga University (Sibiu 2004-2017) and since 2017 he joined the University of Sibiu as a full Professor, directing the Neurosurgical Department. In 2011 dr.Saceleanu founded the Neurosurgical Circle from Sibiu with 50 active students, participating in over 15 internationale and nationale congresses and coordinated over 20 presentations. Dr.Saceleanu is the author of 4 neurosurgical books, coauthor in 2 books and he published 101 articles in national and international journals.
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Associate Professor Cosmin M. Cotrut University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania |
Dr. Cosmin M. Cotrut is Associate Professor at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania and Invited Professor at the Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. His work is defined by research and development in the fields of surface engineering, corrosion science and biomaterials. Dr. Cotrut published over 50 papers in International Journals and presented over 90 papers at International Conferences. He is a member of Editorial Board of Heliyon Journal, Guest Editor for Frontiers in Materials Journal, reviewer for the following International Journals: Corrosion Science, Materials Chemistry and Physics, Materials Science and Engineering B and also editor or reviewer for international conferences proceedings. In the present he is Head of Electrochemistry and Surface Functionalization Laboratory and his work is focus on biofunctionalization techniques, deposition of calcium phosphates and biomaterials degradation.
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Razvan Ene MD, PhD Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest |
Razvan Ene MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest and an attending orthopedic surgeon at Bucharest Emergency University Hospital. Graduate of University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, he obtained a PhD degree in 2011 after extensive research activity focused on the role of imagistics in the diagnostics and treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip joint at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest. He has a wide experience in musculoskeletal oncologic surgery being exposed to an important number of resection and reconstruction surgeries and also in trauma surgery, Bucharest Emergency University Hospital being one of the largest level I trauma centers in the country. In the Orthopedics and Traumatology department he runs the National AP-Trauma program and the National Program for Chronic Joint Instabilities, with comprehensive experience both in trauma surgery and sports medicine, performing various arthroscopic (shoulder, knee and ankle) and novel procedures. The publishing activity of Dr. Ene includes 17 Thomson-Reuters ISI indexed articles, 6 specialty books as author, coauthor or collaborator, 22 International Data Base indexed papers and numerous other abstracts of scientific papers, posters or presentations at national and international events. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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FJOLA JONSDOTTIR Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iceland |
Graduated with a Ph. D. from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Research areas of interest are smart materials and their use in prosthetic devices, computational modeling of drug delivery systems, computational modeling of biopolymers.
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Hyungsuck Cho Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, |
Professor Cho obtained BS, Industrial Education (Mechanical Engineering) from Seoul National University, Korea, 1971, MS, Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, USA, 1973, and Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering from UC, Berkeley, USA, 1977. He worked as a post- doctoral associate at University of California, Berkeley, USA for a short time and joined KAIST, 1978. Now, he is Professor Emeritus after having served as a post-retirement (extended) professor (2010~2015) and as professor (1978~2010). Recently, he served as a DGIST Chair Professor of Daegu Geongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea (2010~2012), having founded Department of Robotics Engineering. He received “Chang-Jo Medal”, Order of Science & Technology Merit (2009), the highest medal of Science and Technology from Korean Government. In some years back he received a Chaired Professorship from POSCO steel company and served as a POSCO Chair Professor (1996~2002). In KAIST, he contributed to establishing Production Engineering Department (1980) and later Department of Automation and Design (1990), having served as the chairman of those two departments. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Aurel Mohan (Romania) – MD, PhD |
Dr.Aurel Mohan is a Specialist Neurosurgeon working in the Neurosurgery Clinic from Emergency County Hospital Oradea and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, discipline Neurosurgery. His activity comprises many participations at national and international conferences in the field of Neurosurgery and Biomaterials. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marius Leretter University of Medicine and Pharmacy ''Victor Babes'', Timisoara, Romania |
Name: Marius Leretter Profession – Dentist Studies/Professional training Career history - 1989-1990 - Dentist in stage Clinic Hospital nr. l Timiş (Dental Clinics nr 3 Timişoara). Publication (books, manuals, articles in specialty journals) Member of: unions, associations, clubs etc, from Romania and abroad Scientific Interests
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Florin Miculescu Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest |
Dr. Habil. Florin Miculescu is Full Professor in the Metallic Materials Science and Physical Metallurgy Department at the Politehnica University from Bucharest, Head of three laboratories within his department and President of the Romanian Society for Biomaterials (2014-2017). He has participated in five postdoctoral stages in Europe and USA and applied his expertise in various research projects related to materials science, engineering, and technology (manager of 8 national and over 50 projects for private companies in the last 15 years). His research activities in the fields of biomaterials, nanomaterials and materials synthesis, processing and characterization are also presented in over 85 ISI-Web of Science articles (impact factor 40 as main author), 5 books and 8 book chapters. He constantly supervises a heterogeneous team of PhD, MSc and BSc students and he is teaching materials science & engineering, biomaterials characterization methods and electron microscopy & microanalysis courses. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Prof. Dr. Habil Cavalu Simona University of Oradea (ROMANIA), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy |
Actual position: Medical Biophysics Professor, University of Oradea (ROMANIA), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. Head of Cells Culture Laboratory. ERASMUS+ Coordinator for Turkey-Romania mobilities. Membership of Academic Societies: Research activity: _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Mirabela Georgiana Minciuna Associate Professor „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi |
Mirabela Georgiana MINCIUNĂ, is Associate Professor (Lecturer) at „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Technologies and Equipments for Materials Processing and Associate Researcher for Center of Excellence Geopolymer & Green Technology Faculty of Engineering Technology Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). Her professional, teaching and researching experience, which started in 2005, allowed her to improve her competence in the production and characterization of metallic materials, by using modern analysis techniques and by specializing in the thermal treatment of materials. PhD Mirabela Georgiana MINCIUNĂ has published widely, with over 50 papers, 1 international patent and 3 books. She has won several prestigious awards of national and international levels for her research and innovation including the HONORABLE MENTION of the “Cadet INOVA’17 Exhibition” and the SPECIAL AWARD from President Hong, Soung-Mo, Korea. mirabela.minciuna@yahoo.ro _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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Istrate Bogdan “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering |
PhD. Eng. Bogdan Istrate (29 years old) is Assistant Professor at „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics and Robotics. He has graduated Bachelor’s Degree – Engineer in 2011 (materials science domain), master degree in mechanical engineering in 2013 and in 2016 presented the PhD Thesis with the Title: „Research concerning the influence of some surface coating on biodegradable metallic alloys used in the medical field” and receiving the title of Doctor in Materials Science with SUMMA CUM LAUDE (11.02.2016). The experience in research activities is quantified by 63 published scientific articles, 16 ISI Web of Science indexed with impact factor. The scientific papers have two important directions: biodegradable and biocompatible materials and surface engineering. He is co-author of one laboratory book, three patents applications in Romania and he was member in three research projects. PhD. Eng. Bogdan Istrate developed between 2012 and 2016 solid competences in materials science structural analysis, using and operating equipments of the “Materials Study” laboratory (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering), like SEM Quanta 200 3D Dual Beam – scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffractometer – X’Pert Pro MPD. It is also well specialized in operating plasma jet deposition Sulzer Metco 9MCE facility, equipment used for research in surface engineering. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Lupescu Olivera University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest, Romania |
Prof. Dr Olivera Lupescu, MD, PhD, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, has been working in the Orthopaedic and Trauma Clinic of Bucharest Clinical Emergency Hospital since 1989. Since 1991 she also teaches at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest “Carol Davila” Bucharest, now Professor in the Orthopaedic and Trauma Department, thus being involved in educational activities addressed to students, as well as to residents and young specialists. As a surgeon, Prof. Dr. Lupescu approached a wide spectrum of orthopaedic and trauma pathology, with a special interest in complex trauma, open fractures, mangled extremity, bone infections, as well as polytrauma and damage control. As member of the research team of the Clinic, she has been involved in national and international research projects and clinical trials studying modern aspects of orthopaedic practice, all these completing the observational research activity based on the numerous clinical cases operated in the Clinic. The most significant aspects derived from this sustained practice were published or presented in more than 100 papers accepted in journals, national and international medical conferences, reflecting the interest for challenging issues in orthopaedic surgery, including biomaterials, endoprosthesis, bone substitutes, as these represent current methods used by the team she works with. She has been invited speaker in national and international congresses, and, as AO Faculty, in basic and advanced courses of this prestigious orthopaedic organization. As member of several orthopaedic associations, Prof.Dr. Lupescu is focused on making more visible the experience of Romanian orthopaedists, as well as on stimulating the young trainees to improve their knowledge according to the international guidelines and standards. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Professor Bortun Cristina Maria University of Medicine and Pharmacy ''Victor Babes'', Timisoara, Romania |
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Catalin Cirstoiu Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology Dean of Medine Faculty at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest |
Catalin Cirstoiu MD, PhD is a Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology and Dean of Medine Faculty at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest. Chief of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Department at Bucharest Emergency University Hospital since 2009, Dr. Cirstoiu's professional development started in the prestigious academic environment provided by "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, where he advanced through all the didactic levels encompassing a great volume of scientific research activity and publishing focused on the subject of reconstruction surgery for bone defects caused by various physiopathological entities. As an orthopedic surgeon he has extensive surgical activity centered on bone defects reconstruction using various methods after tumor resection surgery (benign or malignant tumors, primitive or secondary), but also after total hip or knee arthroplasty and after osteolysis caused by specific or nonspecific osteoarticular septic complications. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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Sebastian Gradinaru Bucharest University Hospital, Romania |
Dr. Grădinaru Sebastian is a consultant general surgeon at Bucharest University Hospital holding a teaching position as Lecturer in General Surgery at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. His expertise in emergency surgery, endocrine, oncological, upper GI and colorectal surgery has offered him exposure to novel technologies and various biomaterials with surgical applications such as herniorrhaphy materials, different stents for viscera, suture materials, haemostatic sponges, dies for mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsies, inks for tattooing and healing promoting agents. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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