Editor Name: Natalia Patrascu

Country: Romania

University: University Emergency Hospital of Bucharest

Educational Qualification: 

1. Doctor in medicine, "Carol Davila"University, of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest (Romania)

2. Medical doctor graduation, "Carol Davila"University of Medicine and Pharmacy, General Medicine, Bucharest (Romania)

Designation: Medical doctor, Assistant Professor in Cardiology

Department: Cardiology

Email:  nataliapatrascu@gmail.com 

Research Interest: 

• Standard echocardiography

• Special echocardiography (transeoesophageal, pharmacological stress, new techniques)

• Vascular Doppler echography

• Courses and practice training with students and fellows

BIOGRAPHY: 

Dr. Natalia Patrascu - Cardiology and Internal Medicine Specialist Professional training: - graduate of the "Carol Davila" Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, 1999 promotion

Preferential fields of activity and expertise:

• Imaging in cardiology

• Specific cardiovascular pathology of pregnant and lazy woman

• High blood pressure

Professional position:

• Specialist cardiology and internal medicine;

• Assistant professor of cardiology and internal medicine within the UMF "Carol Davila" since 2006 (formerly: university trainer in the same clinic since 2003)

• Doctor in medical sciences (from 2013) with a doctoral thesis on research in the field of hypertension and heart failure in early stages

Competencies:

• General echocardiography

• Special echocardiography (transesophageal, pharmacological stress, new techniques)

• Doppler vascular ultrasound

Professional experience:

• 16 years of activity in a service of Internal Medicine and Cardiology of which over 7 years in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit and ward in an emergency hospital

• 13 years of teaching experience (practical training for students in Cardiology and Pneumology, courses for students and resident doctors)

• Investigator experience in randomized, multicenter clinical trials (over 10 clinical trials to date)

• Experience in specific imaging from cardiology (over 1500 transthoracic echocardiography, over 400 transesophageal echocardiography, over 200 vascular ultrasound, over 50 pharmacological stress ultrasounds)

• Experience in long-term surveillance of patients with cardiovascular disease;

• Research, supervision and targeted therapy activity specifically on the cardiovascular pathology of pregnant women.

COURSES:

1. Certificate for 3D Echo intensive course, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua (Italy) (11/2013–11/2013). 

2. Postuniversitary competence course in vascular echography, "Carol Davila"University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest (Romania), Competence in vascular echography for peripheral arteries, cervical arteries and veins system (01/10/2014–27/01/2015).

3. Postuniversitary competence in special echocardiography, "Carol Davila"University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest (Romania) (01/06/2014–01/10/2015).

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrascunatalia/