DOI: 10.33962/roneuro-2022-070 

Steps towards neuro-excellence 

Alexandru Vlad Ciurea, 
Andrei Adrian Popa 



Romanian Neurosurgery (2022) XXXVI (4): pp. 387-388  
DOI: 10.33962/roneuro-2022-070  
www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/roneurosurgery 

 
 

 

Steps towards neuro-excellence  
 

 
Alexandru Vlad Ciurea1,2,3, Andrei Adrian Popa4 
 
1 Chief of the Neurosurgical Department and Scientific Director of 

Sanador Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, ROMANIA 
2 Professor of Neurosurgery. “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and 

Pharmacy, Bucharest, ROMANIA  
3 Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, Medical Science 

Section 
4 Student of General Medicine. “Carol Davila’’ University of Pharmacy 

and Medicine Bucharest, ROMANIA 

 

 
 

ABSTRACT 
Between September 28 and October 1, 2022, took place the 47th National Congress 

of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery. It was organized in Iasi, at the Palace of 

Culture. On this occasion, the 26th Francophone Course and the 4th National 

Congress of Modern Neuroscience were held. These three events represent the 

quintessence of all current modern neurosurgical problems. Extremely important 

topics were disputed which helped to grow the passion in the hearts of young 

enthusiasts and their mentors. 

 

 

 

The entire organization of this very special event was realized with the 

help of DIMAS Events represented by Mr. Sebastian Draghici together 

with the Management of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery 

(President - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hab. Horia Ples). A major role had the 

current management of the Emergency Clinical Hospital "Prof. Dr. 

Nicolae Oblu" Iasi – Manager – Conf. Univ. Dr. Lucian Eva. 

The event was fully supported by the Mayor of Iasi – Mihai Chirica 

and by the Management of the County Council – President: Costel 

Alexe, Vice-President Marius Sorin Danga, Sorin Alexandru Afloarei, but 

also by the Prefect of Iasi – Petru Bogdan Cojocaru. This year, the 

National Congress of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery managed 

to gather an important number of 47 guest speakers from the country 

and abroad, 110 primary physicians and specialists in the field of 

Neurosurgery, including also an important number of resident 

physicians and students from various years of general medicine. 

Keywords 
47th National Congress of the 

Romanian Society of 
Neurosurgery, 

26th Francophone Course, 
4th National Congress of 

Modern Neuroscience    

 
 

 
 

Corresponding author: 
Alexandru Vlad Ciurea 

 
Professor. “Carol Davila” University 

of Medicine and Pharmacy, 
Bucharest, Romania 

 
prof.avciurea@gmail.com 

 
 

 
 

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First published 
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Figure 1. The structure of participants  

 

The entire congress was organized and held in 

English, and the presentations were held in the 

famous halls of the Palace of Culture (UNESCO 

Monument), Henri Coanda Hall and the Voivodes' 

Hall. The halls presented exceptional architectural 

aspects, with historical significance such as "bois 

cement", a material imitating wood, invented by 

Henri Coanda, but also modern aspects, which made 

the audience feel in a world of science and 

discoveries. A very relevant element was the 26th 

French course of neurosurgery, quite exceptional, in 

which Prof. Carmine Mottolese and Prof. Olivier Klein 

from France, revealed modern and current aspects 

of pediatric neurosurgical pathology.  

For the 47th Congress of the Romanian Society of 

Neurosurgery, we note that an important number of 

personalities of the world participated directly or 

online. 

Among the international personalities we 

mention Prof. Amir Samii – Germany, Prof. Samy 

Youssef – Usa of America, Prof. Michael Buchfelder – 

Germany, Prof. Marcos Tatagiba – Germany, Prof. 

Ihsan Solaroglu – Turkey, Prof. Franco Servadei – 

Italy, Prof. Virendra Deo Sinha – India, Prof. Grigore 

Zapuhlic – Moldova, Prof. Sorin Aldea – France, Prof. 

Marcel Ivanov – England etc. The foreign guests 

through the special works and the interventions 

constituted an element of major lifting of the 

neurosurgical quality of the Congress. 

Among the works and university centers in 

Romania we notice the presence of Prof. Horia Ples – 

Timisoara, Prof. Stefan Florian – Cluj, Prof. Mircea 

Gorgan – Bucharest, Conf. Corneliu Toader – 

Bucharest, Conf. Balasa Adrian – Tg. Mures, Prof. 

Aurel Mohan – Oradea etc. We also consider the 

major progress in intracerebral vascular pathology 

through the multiple works allocated to 

endovascular treatment, works presented in a totally 

fantastic and didactic manner by Dr. Cristian Mihalea 

(Paris) and Dr. Nicolae Dobrin (Iasi). 

One of the works that impressed was that of Prof. 

Marcos Tatagiba, who presented “Surgical Treatment 

of Vestibular Schwannomas in the Era of 

Radiosurgery” bringing a new vision about evolution 

of pathology and treatment in neurosurgical field. 

Cristian Mihalea, an expert in radiological field, kept 

the audience focused when started to present the 

neuro-vascular pathologies from his point of view. 

His works and those of Nicolaie Dobrin gave to this 

congress a special value due to their endovascular 

method used in neuro-vascular pathologies. 

 

 
 

Figure 2. Prof. Marcos Tatagiba presenting his works at the 

47th National Congress of the Romanian Society of 

Neurosurgery 

 

The young neurosurgeons had a number of sections 

of development (Young Neurosurgeon Corner) 

where they had the opportunity to present their 

surgical and scientific work, carried out with so much 

devotion and enthusiasm. In these sessions, some of 

the bravest students presented papers through 

which they brought to the attention of the entire 

audience about the dreams and young hopes in the 

neurosurgical field.  

An important section was dedicated to the 4th 

Congress of Neuroscience in which a whole series of 

topical elements in neuroscience were reviewed: The 

Accumbens Nucleus, The Evolution of Neural Theory, 

The Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic and 

many other very impressive papers. 

At the end of the Congress, it was possible to outline 

as an idea that the entire Romanian neurosurgery 

has made important steps for the European 

integration, and the future of a Center of Excellence 

in Neuroscience belongs entirely to the Emergency 

Hospital "Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu" which in these 

moments possesses elements of robotic 

neurosurgery, Gamma Knife Surgery and 

Department of Neuroscience.