Date and place of birth : 30.03.1966 , Tg.Mures, Romania
Address : Bucharest, Garlei Street, no. 3A, Sector 1 – Romania
Nationality : Romanian
Education:
– 1984-1990 University of General Medicine, I.M.F. Bucharest, Romania
– 1980-1984 High School of Mathematics and Physics “Gh. Lazar”, Bucharest, Romania
Post-university specialization:
– Medical Doctor Degree, Sept. 1990
– Ophthalmology Residency, Nov.1991 – Nov.1994 , in the Eye Clinic Hospital-Bucharest
Participation in international ophthalmologic meetings, courses and training visits:
– ESCRS meetings 1997-2002, 2004, 2006 -2013
– AAO meetings 1996, 2000 and 2001
– ASCRS meetings 2003-2012
– WOC congress 2014
– Retinal Detachment Courses – Prof. Kreissig – Tubingen, Germany (1993) and Brasov, Romania (1994)
– Training visit in the Nijmegen Eye Hospital-Nederlands – Prof.Deutmann (1995)- and in the Dr.Piovella’s private Clinic (1999) – Monza, Italy – for cataract surgery ;
– Training visit and course in Lasik surgery – Dr.Siganos – Athens, 2000
– Training visit in the Prof. Krumeich’s Clinic – Germany – for corneal transplantation (2003)
– Participations in many other meetings, on the subject cataract and refractive surgery, as well as corneal transplant.
Co-opted member of the ESCRS Board and of the ESCRS Educational Committee – since October 2011, up to present – attending all the ESCRS Board meetings in 2012 and 2013: Prague, Dublin, Milano, Paris, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Ljubljana.
Present place of work:
Private Eye Clinic OCULUS – Bucharest, Romania (1996 – present) as ophthalmic surgeon
Present position : medical director OCULUS Eye Clinic
Surgical experience ( 1994 – present ):
– approx. 24000 cases of cataract surgery with PC-IOL implantation, among which 21000 phaco procedures; in the last three years: about 450 multifocal PC IOLs and 350 cases of Toric PC IOLs
– about 400 Femto-Assisted Cataract surgeries
– about 200 refractive phakic anterior chamber IOL (iris – claw)
– approx. 500 cases of corneal transplantation and combined procedures
– approx. 900 glaucoma surgeries
– approx. 2500 Laser procedures ( YAG capsulotomies, prophylactic iridotomies and ALT )
– cataract live surgery sessions:
• Bucharest – Romania, Sept.2003 and 2004, as surgeon
• Iasi – Romania, May 2005, as surgeon
• Bucharest – Romania, March 2006 , March 2007, June 2007, Sept.2007, March 2008, as surgeon
• Siena – Italy, May 2006, as surgeon
• Verona – Italy, May 2007, as surgeon
• Stockholm – Sweden, ESCRS Sept. 2007, as surgeon
• Sofia – Bulgaria, May 2008, as surgeon
• Berlin – Germany, ESCRS Sept. 2008, as surgeon
• Barcelona – Spain, ESCRS Sept.2009, as surgeon
• Paris – France, ESCRS 2010, as moderator
• Bucharest – Romania, SRO Congress, October 2010, as surgeon
• Wien – Austria, September 2011 – ESCRS, as moderator
• Moskow – Russia, November 2011 – MTK Congress, as surgeon
• Athens – Greece, October 2012 – SRO Congress, as surgeon
• Bucharest – Romania, SRCCR Conference, Sept. 2013, as surgeon
• Amsterdam – Netherlands, ESCRS Congress, Oct.2013, as surgeon
• Athens – Greece, February 2014 – HSIIRS, as surgeon
Main activity: cataract surgery ( about 2500 phaco procedures per year ), but also refractive, corneal and glaucoma surgery
International Scientific Activities
Papers presented on international congresses (a few recent examples):
• “Managing difficult cataract cases with new technology” (ESCRS, London 2006)
• “Quick chop in hard nuclei cataract using Ozil Torsional technology” (ASCRS, San Diego, 2007)
• “Modern cataract surgery – IP settings with Ozil” (Infiniti Council Meeting, Maidenhead – England, 2008)
• “Our personal experience in sub-2 mm Phaco surgery technique” (Infiniti Council Meeting, Nice, 2009)
• “Sub-2mm Phacoemulsification – a true step forward?” (Infiniti Council Meeting, Nice, 2009)
• “Controversies in Phacoemulsification” (Infiniti Council Meeting, Madrid, 2010)
• “Ozil IP – Personal Experience in difficult cases” (Infiniti Council Meeting, Madrid, 2010)
• “Pearls on how to manage soft and hard cataracts” (ESCRS, Paris, 2010 and Istanbul 2010)
• “Ex-press Shunt implantation in a patient with glaucoma, cataract and astigmatism – combined procedure with Toric IOL” (Istanbul, 2010)
• „The quality of vision after aspheric lens implantation” (Clubul MICS, Atena 2011)
• „Coaxial microincision phacoemulsification on complicated cataract cases” (Clubul MICS, Atena 2011)
• “Cataract surgery on eyes with corneal transplant – things to be considered” (Ophthalmology highlights – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – May, 2011)
• “Phacoemulsification on 1,8 mm incision” (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2011)
• “Our experience with Crystalens” (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2011)
• “How to avoid complications in most difficult cataract cases” (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2011)
• „Comparison between different types of vascoelastics in cataract surgery” – ESCRS Milano, Sept. 2012
• „My experience in EnVista Toric IOL’s” – Winter ESCRS Meeting – Warsaw, Poland – Febr. 2013 and ESCRS Amsterdam, Oct. 2013
• „A comparison of 2,2 and 1,8 mm incision phacoemulsification in terms of safety, in patients with flat Anterior Chamber” – ESCRS Amsterdam, Oct. 2013
• „Pearls in Transitioning from OzilIP to Balanced Energy Centurion Vision System” – ESCRS Amsterdam, Oct. 2013
• „New Technology in Cataract Refractive Surgery: Centurion and Verion – first clinical experience” – ESCRS Amsterdam, Oct. 2013
• „New Innovations in Cataract Technology : The Cataract Refractive Suite by Alcon” – ESCRS Amsterdam, Oct. 2013 and Winter ESCRS Ljubljana, Febr. 2014 and HSIIRS Athens, Febr. 2014
• „Laser Assisted Catarct Surgery using LenSx, LuxOR and Centurion” – OSSA, Drakensberg, South Africa – March 2014
• „New Innovations in Cataract Technology: Verion Image Guiding System” – OSSA, Drakensberg, South Africa – March 2014
3. Books:
Cataract surgery complications – Lucio Buratto, Stephen Brint – SLACK Incorporated, 2013 – Chapter: Complications of Phacoemulsification
4. International clinical studies: clinical studies, al GCP certified, since September 1999 to present, in areas such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, conjunctivitis, and IOLs – as principal investigator or sub-investigator
Clinical studies experience:
– one phase III study in Diabetic retinopathy (2000 – 2004)
– four studies phase III in glaucoma (1999 – 2003)
– one phase III study in bacterial conjunctivitis (2005)
– one pilot study in Glaucoma (2006 – 2008)
– clinical study phase IV in Glaucoma (2008 – 2009)
– clinical study phase IV in toric IOLs (2009 – 2011)
– clinical study phase IV in glaucoma (2012)
Foreign languages :
– English, French and Italian (fluently)
– German (good)