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 Cardiovascular Surgery Department and coordinator of the Heart Transplant Program at the Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, 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 of circulation: intra-aortic balloon pump, partial artificial heart type "Novacor" and more recently HeartMate 3; within all cardiovascular surgery departments he worked in, he implemented new technologies related to minimally invasive cardiac surgery, endovascular surgery (EVAR, TEVAR) and transcateter valve prosthesis (TA ).

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 member of the Board of the Romanian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, as well as a member of 10 other national and international scientific societies.

Published as main author 7 specialized books, participated with chapters in other 20 books, out of which 4 in prestigious international publishers. He is the author / co-author for a number of over 120 scientific papers: 60 ISI indexed publications, 34 ISI indexed extenso articles, of which 24 as lead author, FCIAP 41, Hirsch Index 10; Key note speaker in over 200 scientific 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.