horațiu moldovan

Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bucharest, PhD Habil, Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest – Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Department and coordinator of the Heart Transplant Program at the Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, and coordinator of the Clinical Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery within the Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children "Grigore Alexandrescu".

He is one of the specialists who introduced coronary surgery and aortic dissection surgery in Romania, as well as the implantation of the first mechanical assistance devices for circulation: intra-aortic balloon pump, partial artificial heart type "Novacor," and more recently, HeartMate 3; within all the cardiovascular surgery departments he has worked in, he implemented new technologies related to minimally invasive cardiac surgery, endovascular surgery (EVAR, TEVAR), and transcatheter valve prosthesis (TA).

He is a Full Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Associate Member of the Romanian Academy of Scientists, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Full Member of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, and a member of the Board of the Romanian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, as well as a member of 10 other national and international scientific societies.

He has published as the main author of 7 specialized books and participated with chapters in 20 other books, four of which are with prestigious international publishers. He is the author/co-author of over 120 scientific papers: 60 ISI indexed publications, 34 ISI indexed extenso articles, of which 24 are as lead author, FCIAP 41, Hirsch Index 10; keynote speaker at over 200 national and international scientific events.

Areas of excellence: major vascular surgery - aortic, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, science and engineering of biomaterials as haemostatic agents and surgical adhesives, cardiovascular devices (valve and vascular prostheses), endovascular surgery and cardiostructural procedures, and mechanical ventricular assistance and transplantation.