SANDA-MARIA COPOTOIU 

Born on the 9th of July 1954 in Band, Romania.

High school in Târgu Mureș – top of promotion, graduated the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Târgu Mureș in 1979 as top of promotion and with honors.

She becomes specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care in 1991 and consultant five years later.

Interested in emergency care, anesthesia for thoracoscopic thymectomy, digestive surgery, ethics.

Becomes the first ACCP governor for Romania in 2004, member of the ESA Ethics subcommitte for two terms.

She is the receiver of the Hypnos prize in 1995 – European Academy of Anesthesia and was voted best anesthesiologist for 2006.

Head of the Clinic of Anesthesia and Intensive Care of the Emergency County Hospital of Târgu Mureș since 2004, she is now a professor and lectures both in Romanian and English.

She overtook the medical journal Acta Medica Marisiensis in 2005 as editor and became deputy editor of the JCCM – Journal of Critical Care Medicine.

She is the course director of the Romanian chapter of the CEEA.

Married with two daughters – also physicians, she enjoys reading and travelling.