Currently is an Associated Professor of Psychiatry at the “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timișoara, Romania. He holds a BA in Medicine from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeș”, Timișoara, Romania, an MA in Psychotherapy, “Vasile Goldiș” Western University, Arad, Romania, a MA in Psychopharmacology from the Neuroscience Education Institute, Carlsbad, California, U.S.A. 2015-2017 Edition, accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians, and a PhD in Medicine from the “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timișoara. His main research interests are Perinatal Depression, Medical Co-morbidity in Major Depression, Psychiatric Epigenetics, and Personality Disorders. He has coauthored Comorbidity: Perspectives across Europe (2006). He published, as a first and coauthor, 15 articles in extenso containing original research, in journals that are ISI Web of Science indexed, 6 proceeding papers in volumes of congress ISI Web of Science indexed and 41 meeting abstracts in journals ISI Web of Science indexed. He has authored and coauthored 27 psychiatric and psychosomatic monographs, treatises and chapters. He received APR-Lilly Award of Romanian Association of Psychiatry as a young psychiatry resident doctor in 2002 and Award of Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy for the best oral communication entitled ''Obstetrical and Neonatal Clinical Parameters Associated with the Increased Risk of Postnatal Depression'' presented at the 5th Romanian National Congress of Psychiatry in 2014.