CERTIFICATION:
• American Board of Anesthesiology Diplomate- 04/2004 valid until 12/2014.

• Recertification by the American Board of Anesthesiology – valid from Jan 2015 until Dec 2025.

EDUCATION:
• “University of Medicine Carol Davila”– MD diploma Bucharest, Romania.

• 01/02-06/03 Anesthesiology Residency CA-2 and CA-3 resident at The CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION,
• 07/00-12/01 Anesthesiology Residency CA-1 and CA-2 resident at the University of Arkansas.
• 07/99-06/00 –Internship at the University of Arkansas

EXPERIENCE:

• 07/11-present – Managing my own personal interventional pain management practice in NJ. Performing a vast array of procedures like: Provocative discograms, Endoscopic Transforaminal Discectomy, Endoscopic Rhizotomy, Decompressive percutaneous discectomy Lumbar, Sacral, Thoracic and Cervical Radiofrequency Ablation of the medial nerve branch, Lumbar, Thoracic and Cervical Epidural Steroid Injections, Lumbar, Thoracic and Cervical facets steroid injections, Lumbar, Sacral, Thoracic and Cervical medial branch diagnostic blocks, Sacroiliac Joints steroid injections, Caudal Blocks and Epidurolysis Lumbar Transforaminal Steroid Injections Multimodal approach of the chronic pain syndromes.
• 10/06-07/11- Bayshore Medical Center –NJ- vascular surgery cases, general surgery cases, ENT, chronic pain management, lots of orthopedics and spine surgery, pediatric cases, urology, ophthalmology, neurosurgery. Performed Acute and Chronic pain management procedures for the group. Group was also covering a surgical center and endoscopy suites- were we had open spine surgery with instrumentation – lumbar and cervical, plastic surgery, orthopedic cases and pain management.
• 09/04-10/06- Richmond University in NYC –Staten Island- academic tertiary care center with an emphasis on vascular, thoracic, urology, OB-GYN, general surgery, orthopedics and spine, neurosurgery, pediatrics and trauma cases, just to mention a few surgical specialties well represented in the case load of the hospital.
• 08/03-08/04- Brookhaven Memorial Medical Center- Long Island NY. Diversity of cases including- trauma, neurosurgery, vascular, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, pediatrics, ENT, urology, eye, plastics, GI procedures, in a very diverse population with a high percentage of very sick and disabled geriatric patients from nursing homes located around the hospital.