MICROCIRCULATION FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE (PB 2020)

Maria Dorobanţu is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Romania, and head of the Cardiology Department of Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest. She received a postdoctoral research grant from the French Government in 1991, conducting her research activity at University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. She has a special interest in the assessment and treatment of heart failure and arterial hypertension.  She is the President of the Romanian Society of Hypertension. Between 2008 and 2014 she was member of CPC of ESC, Group of Hypertension. Since 2016 she is the chairperson of the Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation Working Group of European Society of Cardiology.  Prof.Dorobantu is also a member of the Romanian Academy for Medical Sciences. She has published over 300 articles in highly qualified scientific journals with her work highly quoted in the scientific literature (Citations: over 2700; h-index 23). She is a corresponding  member of the French Academy of Medical Sciences