MARian dorU croitoru

Studies:
1962 - 1970 – Elementary school in Craiova
1970 - 1974 – High school "Nicolae Bălcescu" in Craiova
1974 - 1975 – Military service
1975 - 1981 – Faculty of Medicine in Craiova
1981 - 1984 – On probation at the Clinical Hospital of Craiova
1984 - 1990 – General practitioner at The Plenița Hospital
1990 – Specialization in Cardiology
1991 - 1994 – Training in Cardiology at the Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases "Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu", Bucharest
1994  – Graduated as Cardiology specialist
Since May 1994 he has been working in The Department of Interventional Cardiology of the Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases "Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu", Bucharest
Oct - Dec 1995 – 2 month fellowship in the Netherlands – The Department of Interventional Cardiology of the Hart Long Institute, Academic Hospital Utrecht
1996 – Romanian Society of Cardiology member
Nov 1996 – The 18th Postgraduate Course in Clinical Cardiology – International Society and Federation of Cardiology, Bucharest
Jun 1997 – Training in peripheral intervention in Universitätsspital Zürich, with Dr. med. E. Schneider
1998 – Cardiologist consultant
Oct 1998 – ECOR training programme "Interventional Cardiology Forum" Katowice, Poland
2000 – Certificate of attendance in Interventional Cardiology, Ministry of Health      
2000 - 2013 – Course on revascularization, Paris
Oct 2004 – Training in peripheral intervention in Universitätsspital Zürich, with Dr. med. E. Schneider
2009 - 2011 – part of the program of treatment of aortic aneurysms in the Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases "Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu", Bucharest
Since 2011, President of Working Group of Interventional Cardiology in Romanian Society of Cardiology
Participation as investigator in trials related to interventional cardiology

Written papers:
"L’attitude chirurgicale dans la pathologie du segment arteriel femoro-poplite" (J de Maladies Vasculaires – mars 1999 supplement A)
"Surgical correction of the superior vena cava occlusion – case report" (International Angiology 2001 vol20, suppl 1 to No 1, pag 71)
"Local Thrombolytic Treatement for Renal Arterial Embolism – case report" (Eur Urol 2000; 38:339-343)
"Successful Local Fibrinolytic Treatement and Balloon Angioplasty in Superior Mesenteric Arterial Embolism – case report and literature review" (Hepato – gastroenterology 2003; 50: 732-734)
"Peripheral Angioplasty in <<Topical interest in Cardiology>>" L. Gherasim, E Apetrei (Ed Med AMALTEA 1998 București; 22: 484-499}
"Interventional Treatment in Perpheral Arterial Disease in <<Text Book of Cardiology>> C. Carp" (Ed Med Națională 2002 Vol II)
Chapter in "Cardiovascular Emergencies", Elvira Craiu, Victor Goleanu –  Editura Național 2004
Chapters in "Cardiac Catheterization" for the clinicians Carmen Ginghină, Dan Deleanu – Ed Med Antaeus București
2012
Chapters in the series of six volumes "Imaging in cardiac patients", under the editorship of Carmen Ginghină, Ed Medicală 2008 - 2012