EDUCATION:

2004-2008: High school ”Nicolae Balcescu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania,                                                  Specialty of Mathematics and Informatics

2008- 2011: Medical school at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy                                             ”Iuliu Hatieganu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2011-2012 – Erasmus Exchange Program at the ULB, Brussels, Belgium

PRACTICE EXPERIENCE:

2010 – Night shifts at the Emergency Department, Cluj-Napoca,                                                   Romania, paramedic activity

July 2010 – Summer School on Emergency Medicine and International                                               Development of the Emergency Medicine, Utrecht, The                                                     Netherlands

July 2010 – The transfusion center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania nursing                                                            activity

August 2010 – The Institute of Oncology ”Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta”,                                                              Cluj-Napoca, Romania: department of nuclear medicine                                                    nursing activity; operating room – anesthesiology                                                              activity and basic surgery skills

March 2011 – Knots & Sutures Workshop, organized by the Romanian                                                  Surgery Student’s Society, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

August 2011 – Anesthesia clerkship at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus                                                      (AKH), Vienna, Austria, Medical University of Vienna,                                                         International Federation of Medical Students Association                                                   Exchange Program.

October 2011 – Cardiac Surgery at The Erasme Hospital Brussels,                                                           Belgium

July 2012- Hopital Universitaire de Geneve (HUG),Switzerland –medicine interne                             fellowship

September 2012- Mont Sinai Hospital New-York-department of pain management –                                    observship

July 2013- Antwerpen, Belgium ECCO fellowship

September 2013- Hopital Universitaire de Geneve (HUG), Switzerland –anestesiology                                fellowship

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:

December 2010 – Member of the Student’s Oncology Society

December 2010 – Member of the Student’s Gynecological and Obstetrics                                                       Society

January 2010 – Member of the Student’s Physiology Society

March 2010 – Paramedical training at the SMURD (Mobile Service of                                                      Emergencies, Reanimation and Extrication) department,                                                  Cluj-Napoca, Romania

September 2010 – Passive participant at the 14th International Thyroid                                                     Congress, Paris

30th September – 2nd October 2010- Participant at the 46th ESNM                                                              Seminar of Nuclear   Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, România

3rd of March 2011 – „The dual approach of the inflammation in asthma”                                                              Conference, Bucharest, Romania

June 2011 – Winner of a research grant for medical students offered by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ”Iuliu Hatieganu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania for the project: “The evaluation of the lipid metabolism status and the cardiovascular disease risk for the patient with thyroid carcinoma and radical treatment, following a chronic hormone treatment”

2013- Congres president Medicalis 2013, The international congress of young doctors and medical students

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Piciu D, Irimie A, Duncea I, Popita V, Straciuc O, Piciu A, Bara A. Positron emission tomography- Computer tomography fusion image, with 18-fluoro-2- deoxy-D-glucose in the follow-up of the patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Acta Endocrinologica 2010; Vol. VI(January-March,1):15-26.

2. Irimie A, Piciu D, Duncea I, Goia-Moisescu C, Pestean C, Bara A, Piciu A. Guidelines for the Evaluation of  Thyroid Nodules. Journal of Radiotherapy & Medical Oncology 2010; Vol. XVI(1):15-19.

3. Doina Piciu, Andra Piciu, Alexandru Irimie – “Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma and ectopic papillary thyroid carcinoma in mediastinum – a case report” Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2012; 37(2): 214-215.

Since 2009 – Member of the Romanian Cancer Society

Since 2009 – Member of the Medical Student Organization Cluj-Napoca, in the HPV infection prevention project and project coordinator in May 2010

Since 2010 – Member of the Medical Student Organization Cluj-Napoca, in the blood donation campaign

SCIENTIFIC AWARDS:

1st prize at the National Congress for students and young doctors at the medical section with the work named: „Screening of the familial form of medullary thyroid carcinoma”, December 2010, Bucharest, Romania

2nd prize at the International Medical Students and Young Health Professionals Congress, Medicalis 12th edition with the work named ”2 weeks of thyroid hormone withdrawal in the follow-up of differentiated thyroid carcinoma – Is it optimal?” May 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.