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On Sunday, 8^th March 2015, at 11.00h, at the Atelier Hall of the National Theatre, Dr. Vasile Ciubotaru will hold the conference entitled The Hippocratic Oath and the Current Age. Ticket price: 16 lei.

About the conference:

Ever since the old times, people have entrusted other peers with the ailments of their bodies and souls: healers, curers. The relationship between the patient and his healer was regulated by some laws included in the Hippocratic Oath, laws which were kept and carefully observed throughout the time. These resisted in their initial form for milleniums, but in the present-day society they tend to change their meaning through the influencing of the therapeutic directions, under technological, social and economic pressure.

Must the patients’ preferences be taken into consideration, as well as the administrative factors, which, in turn, are influenced by the mass-media, by the companies and by the public opinion?

Is the contemporary doctor obliged to take into consideration the Hippocratic ideals and adapt them to modern medicine?

Does the oath remain only a festive moment at the parting with Alma Mater?

Is medicine a professional vocation or does the doctor remain a public clerk?

About Doctor Vasile Ciubotaru

Born on 19.09.1953, in the Timiș county.

Education: 1973-1979 – Faculty of General Medicine and Pediatrics - IMF Iași.

Neurosurgical Consultant, first place in the National competition exam in 1993.

The Neurosurgery III Section Chief, „Prof. Dr. Bagdasar Arseni” Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest.

PhD in Medical Sciences, with the doctoral dissertation paper „Indications and Methods in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Pitulary Gland Tumours”, 1998.

Professional training: neurosurgery courses in Romania, Germany, Morocco, France, Turkey.

Remarkable professional achievements (in collaboration):

- The first endoscopic ventriculocisternostomy in Romania

-The first intraoperative detection of evoked potentials in Romania

- The introduction of the operating microscope and the endoscopic assistance in the transsphenoidal resection of the pitulary tumours.

- The first endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery of a pitulary tumour in Romania.

Professional activity (surgeries since 2000):

- over 2200 pituraly tumours and skull base tumours

- over 5000 cerebral tumours

- over 5000 interventions in the vertebro-medullary pathology

Publications:

Communicated papers – 160 in Romania and abroad

Published works – 50 in Romania and abroad

11 books published

Member of scientific societies:

The International Society of Pitulary Gland Surgery (since 1994)

Corresponding member of the French Neurosurgical Society (since 19998)

The Romanian Neurosurgical Society (since 1984)

Founder member of the Clinical Endocrinology Association in Romania (2005)

Individual member of the European Neurosurgical Society (2010)

Vicepresident of the Society of Neuro Oncology in Romania

Member of the National Geographic Society (since 1995)

Community recognition awards:

Citizen of honour of theUdești parish, Suceava county, 2004

Citizen of honour of the Suceava Municipality, 2010.

Translated by Chira Manuela Cristina

MTTLC, University of Bucharest