The Scientific Council

The HNF Scientific Council's role is to oversee the Foundation's projects and to lead its research programs.

Members

President: Dan Mircea CHETA, M.D., PhD;

Professor of Medicine - UMF "Carol Davila" - Bucharest, Research and Development Director of "Prof. N. Paulescu" Institute, Bucharest, ROMANIA;
Author or co-author of 12 books and numerous papers and articles published by local and foreign printing houses.

  • 1997 - was included in "Who's Who in the World" (14th edition), Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, USA;
  • 1995 - received the "Nicolae Paulescu" medal;
  • 1994 - received the "Ion Pavel" award from The Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences for studies conducted in the diabetes' immunology field.

Member of:

  • The Romanian Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Society (Past-President)
  • European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
  • The Balcanic Medical Union
  • The New York Academy of Sciences, USA
  • The Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, (Vice-President - until 2007)

Scientific secretary: Gabriela RADULIAN, M.D., PhD;

Professor of Medicine - UMF "Carol Davila" - Bucharest
Author or co-author of numerous works published locally and abroad.

Member of:

  • The Romanian Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Society
  • The EASD

Professional studies:

  • 1997 - Berlin, Germany - "Promoting Health in the Nutrition field "
  • Berna, Switzerland - "How to prevent Diabetes "
  • 1994 - Friedrichsroda, Germany - "Eating habits and nutrition diseases"
  • 1992 - 1994 - Luneburg, Germany - "Food Safety"

Ioan Mircea COMAN, M.D., PhD

Associate Professor - Cardiology, UMF "Carol Davila" - Bucharest
Chief of Department; Cardiovascular Diseases "C.C. Iliescu", Bucharest, Romania
Author or co-author of numerous works published locally and abroad.

Member of:

  • Romanian Cardiology Society
  • European Cardiology Society
  • International Society for Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Gabriela NEGRISANU, M.D., PhD

Associate Professor - University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara
Author of "Diabetes Mellitus - A practical Guide", Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, 1995 and of numerous papers on diabetes and obesity, published locally and abroad.

Member of:

  • Romanian Society of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases
  • The EASD

Mariana GRAUR, M.D., PhD

Professor of Medicine - UMF "Gr. T. Popa" - Iasi, Romania
Chief of Iasi District Clinic of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Center
Author sau co-author of numerous works published locally and abroad.

Member of:

  • Romanian Society of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases
  • EASD
  • American Diabetes Association (ADA)
  • International Diabetes Federation (IDF)

Camelia PARVAN, M.D., PhD

Scientific Reseacher, Chief of "Health and Food" Department, Public Healthy Institute Bucharest.
EC expert on Food Safety legislation; national representative on Nutrition and Food Safety at the World Health Organization; trainer on food safety.

  • 1997- in present, Chief of "Health and Food" Department