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116          Surgeon of the Year 2012 

 
 
 

Surgeon of the year 2012   

“I believe that for every patient the surgeon of the year is the surgeon who 
operates him/her”. 

 

 
 
The motto is quoted from Prof. Dr. Ioan 

Stefan Florian’s speech, when the 
Distinction of “Surgeon of the Year 2012” 
was handed over to him at the Healthcare 
Gala (Gala Sanătăţii), event organized at the 
House of Parliament in Bucharest, on the 
5th of December, 2012. 

Prof. Dr. Ioan Stefan Florian, president 
of the Senate of the University of Medicine 
and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj-
Napoca since 2011, former president of the 
Romanian Society of Neurosurgery in the 
period of 2010-2012, in the present past-
president of it, member of the Executive 
Board of the Society, received  the  
Distinction of “Surgeon of the Year 2012”.  

Nominated and elected from all 
Romanian surgeons, this distinction is to 

confirm his professional value and results.   
With an impressive surgical experience 

numbering more than 10.000 surgeries, 
among which 3012 brain lesions operated 
within the last 12 months, one of the most  
numerous series of brain stem lesions, 
intramedullary tumors, AVM's,  and more 
than 700 aneurysms operated along his 
career, he is the neurosurgeon who first 
introduced in Romania the “single stage 
single opening” technique  in the surgical 
treatment of multiple aneurysms, the first 
reported direct approach on a brain stem 
tumor, the translabirintic approach for 
acoustic neurinoma together with Prof. Dr. 
Silviu Albu (E.N.T. Department), the 
endoscopic – endonasal approach for 
pituitary adenomas, and pioneered many 
other surgical approaches in brain and 
spinal surgery.  

As recognition of his didactic activity and 
purely based on the appreciation of 
students, he was elected Professor Bologna 
in 2010 by the students of the University of 
Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” 
Cluj-Napoca.   

Prof. Dr. Ioan Stefan Florian 
participated at many national and 
international scientific events, giving 
lectures.  

In 2011 he was invited to sustain a 
presentation within the section Video with 
Masters at the 14th WFNS Interim Meeting 
& 15th Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery 
Congress of Continuous Education, in 
Recife, Brazil.  



 
 
 

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Later, in 2012 he was invited to give a 
lecture at the 9th Asian Congress of 
Neurological Surgeons, within the section 
entitled “Best Oral Presentations” held in 
Istanbul, Turkey.  

Among the awards received by him just 
a few are mentioned, such as the 
Distinction of the Sanitary Order  in grade 
of Commander accorded to civil citizens by 
Ion Iliescu,  President of  Romania in 2004; 
“Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta” Award in 2007, 
the award of the Faculty of Medicine of 
UMF “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj-Napoca for 
surgical specialities.  

Prof. Dr. Ioan Stefan Florian is member 
of many national and international societies, 

being the General Secretary of 
Euroacademia Multidisciplinaria 
Neurotraumatologica (EMN), individual 
member of the European Association of 
Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), individual 
member of the Congress of Neurological 
Surgeons (CNS), and also the Romanian 
Ambassador to the Dandy Assembly 
together with Prof. Dr. A.V. Ciurea.  

“LABOR OMNIA VINCIT 
IMPROBUS” as written on the logo of the 
Department of Neurosurgery from Cluj-
Napoca and it is one of the principles that 
Prof. Dr. Ioan Stefan Florian and the 
department he runs, respect and apply.