DITOIU ALECSE VALERIAN MD, PhD

CURICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATIONS

NATIONALITY Romanian

DATE OF BIRTH 01.06.1954

Address: Sos. Fundeni 258, postal code 022328, Bucharest, Romania

Phone : +40722873284

Email alexditoiu@yahoo.co.uk

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Gastroenterologist since 2001

Doctor in Medicine, speciality –Gastroenterology with the thesis “Involvement of digestive tract in collagen tissue diseases”, since July 2001 (confirmed in November 2001)

Lecturer University of Medicine "Carol Davila" Bucharest since 2002

Competence in Digestive Endoscopy since 1994

Postgraduate courses

Medical Imagery – course organised by the Romanian Association of Radiology, Imagery and Nucleare , Bucharest, April-June 1991

Abdominal Ultrasonography, course organised by the Romanian Ministry of Health, Bucharest 1992;

Nephrology Seminary organised by the Romanian Nephrology Society, in association with the European Renal Association- European Dialysis and Transplantation Association, Bucharest, October 1-2; 1993

Advanced post-graduate course in gastro-enterology, organised by The Netherlands Society of Gastroenterology and the Foundation Holland Digestive Disease Week, Zwolle- Utrecht - Amsterdam - Rotterdam, Holland,; 22 March - 2 April 1993

Digestive Endoscopy, course organised by the Romanian Ministry of Health, Bucharest, 1994;

The 8 th edition of „National Days for Continuing Education in Hepato-Gastroenterology”, Nantes, France, 25-26 March 1995

Diagnostic Digestive Endoscopy, Paris, France , 29 March - 6 April 1995

The 9 th edition of „National Days for Continuing Education in Hepato-Gastroenterology”, Nantes, France, 21-22 March 1998

Diagnostic and therapeutic biliarry and pancreatic endoscopy- Paris, France, 26 March - 3 April 1998,

The First European Association for the Study of the Liver Postgraduate Course in Romania, Bucharest, Romania, September 1999,

Pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis, course organised by the International Gastro-Surgical Club, during the First Sympozia of the Romanian Section of IGSC, Bucharest, Romania, 7-8 May 1999

“Evolution in Endoscopy”, course organised by the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy during The 9th United European Gastroenterology Week, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6 October 2001;

“Tumors in the liver”, course organised by the European Association for the Study of the Liver during The 9th United European Gastroenterology Week, Amsterdam , Netherlands, 7 October 2001;

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Romanian Association of Physicians

Member of the Romanian Society of Gastroenteroenterology and Endoscopy

Member of the Romanian Association for the Study of the Liver

Member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver

POSITIONS HELD IN THE LEADERSHIP OF MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND

JOURNALS

Member in the Executive Comitee of the Romanian Association for the Study of the

Liver (RASL) since 1992

Treasurer of al RASL between 1994 – 1996

General Secretary of RASL since 1996.

Founding member of the Liver Surgery Foundation, 2000.

Founding member and editor of the “Romanian Journal of Hepathology” - October

2001

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS AND CLINICAL STUDIES:

Programme / Project Function period: since-to

Euroicterus Project Contract No MR4-044, "Clinical Presentation of Jaundice in Europe", mentioned as researcher in “Clinical Presentation of Jaundice in Europe, Occurrences and diagnostic value of clinical findings", edited by S M Lavelle, Galway, Ireland

Contributor 1988-1991

„Database for highly qualified specialists in technical and scientifical field „ ref nb: PDP / 97-0098-410, funded by the European Community Delegation– PHARE Programme

Contributor 1998-1999

Consultant of the European Community Delegation in Romania within the assistance programme "Child Humanitarian Assistance SSTA 98-0047-37"

Consultant 1999- 2000

Clinical study –third phase : „Chronic HBV hepatitis treatment” Principal investigator

2001-2004

Clinical study –third phase -“Endoscopic and pharmacologic treatment of upper digestive haemorrhage in cirrhotic patients”

Contributor 2001-2003

Clinical study –third phase “ Diagnosis and treatment in reflux esophagitis „

Principal investigator

2005

Programme / Project Function period: since-to

Clinical study –third phase “Pharmacologic treatment in osteoarthritis”

Principal investigator

2006

Research project CNCSIS- EXRENHEP Participant 2007

Research project CNCSIS - ECOENDODIG Project manager

2007

Clinical study –third phase „ Constipation treatment in men” Principal investigator

2011-2012

SUMMARY OF PUBLICATIONS

CO-AUTHOR IN BOOKS AND SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

Researcher in research project "Clinical presentation of jaundice in Europe", mentioned in "Clinical presentation of jaundice in Europe", edited by M Lavelle, Euroicterus Project Management Group 1995, Galway, Ireland.

Internal Medicine for residents, Publisher- Teora 2002 (co-author)

SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PRESENTED IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES AND SYMPOSIA

1. "Helicobacter Pylori - Update", AV Diţoiu – Roundtable Conference in Ïtalo-Romanian Days in Gastroenterology and Culture” – Constanta, Romania June 12-16. 2001

2. Involvment of digestive tract in collagen tissue diseases, in „Prof. Dr, Gerota Hospital Days”, Sibiu, Romania , October 16-18, 2007

3. "Gastroduodenal ulcer in patients with diabetes mellitus"; V Stoica, AV Diţoiu, poster presented in “ Ïtalo-Romanian Days in Gastroenterology and Culture”, Iaşi, Romania, May 3-5 1994.

4. "Factors which predict gastroesophageal hemorrhage to patients with liver cirrhosis"; O Motoi, V Stoica, AV Diţoiu, D Orăşanu, R Vişan, poster presented in Falk Symposium No 92 - New Trends in Hepatology-, St. Petersburg, Russia 21-22 June 1996, abstract published in vol. pag 154

5. "Upper digestive tract functional disturbances in cirrhotic patients"; AV Diţoiu, O Motoi, poster presented in World Congresses of Gastroenterology, Vienna, Austria, 1998, published in Digestion vol. 59, suppl.3, pag. 338.

6. " Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in Romania” AV Diţoiu, O Motoi, V Stoica, poster in The VIth International Symposium on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 3-5 September 2001 Istambul, Turkey, abstract published in vol. pag 33

7. ”Systemic Lupus Eritematous and Esophageal Involvement”, AV Diţoiu, O Motoi, V Stoica, poster presented in The 9th United European Gastroenterology Week, Amsterdam 6 -10 October 2001, citation: Gut; Vol.49 (Suppl III); November 2001, abstract no. 3192

8. "Esophageal tumors- histologic study" AV Diţoiu, O Motoi, V Herlea, M Hortopan, M Voiculescu, poster presented in The 11th World Congress of the International Association of Surgeons&Gastroenterologists, November 1-4, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, published in Hepato-Gastroenterology vol 48, Suppl 1, CCXLIX, November 2001

9. "Alerations of paraclinic investigations in gastric cancer"; AV Diţoiu, O Motoi, poster presented in The VI th National Congress of Hepatology, Timişoara, Romania , September 1996

10. „Simptomatology of the onset of gastric cancer"; O Motoi, AV Diţoiu, poster presented in The VI th National Congress of Hepatology, Timişoara, Romania , September 1996

11. „Esophageal tumors- histopathologic evaluation”, O Motoi, AV Diţoiu, S Ciucă, I Burlănescu, V Herlea, M Hortopan, poster presented in The VIII th National Congress of Gastroenterology , Timişoara June 16-19, 1999, published in Romanian Journal of Gastroenterology vol.8, suppl.1 1999, pag 11-12.

12. “ Updates in Gastroenterology- Videoendoscopic capsule” A.V. Ditoiu, Medical business, nr.4, April 2002, pag 18-19

13. “Therapeutic options for prevention of vareiceal rebleeding in liver cirrhosis “, A.V.Ditoiu, Conference in The 13 th National Congress of Hepatology , Bucharest, Romania, June, 2003 published in the Romanian Jurnal of Hepatology , volume 3, nr. 2, pag 25-26,

14. “Treatment of the variceal upper digestive haemorrhage- Romanian reality”. C. Stanciu, M.Voiculescu. P. Mircea, A. Trifan, M.Diculescu, I.Sporea, C.Gheorghe, A. Goldis, A.V. Ditoiu, I. Dina, M. Georgescu, Z. Sparchez, I. Rogoveanu, E. Dumitru, Romanian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2004 vol.13, suppl.1, pag.41

15. “Comparative effectiveness of pharmacologic therapy, versus endoscopic therapy in variceal upper digestive haemorrhage in cirrhotic patients “. A. Ditoiu, I. Copaci, O. Motoi, L. Leurzeanu, A. Andronesi, M. Voiculescu, presentation in the Scientific Session of Fundeni Clinical Institute and Cardiovascular Diseases Institute C.C. Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania, 9-10 December 2004

16. “Risk of upper digestive haemorrhage in patients with H Pylori infection treated with NSAID s. “ I Copaci. AV Ditoiu, L Micu, L Cojocaru, M Voiculescu , presentation in the Scientific Session of Fundeni Clinical Institute and Cardiovascular Diseases Institute C.C. Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania, 9-10 December 2004

17. “Distinctive features of upper digestive haemorrhage in uremic patients “. R Dimulescu, I Copaci. AV Ditoiu, C Ionescu, T Dimulescu, D Micu, G Ismail, presentation in the Scientific Session of Fundeni Clinical Institute and Cardiovascular Diseases Institute C.C. Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania, 9-10 December 2004

18. “ Etiologic profile and specific evolutive features of upper digestive haemorrage in a Internal Medicine Center” A.V. Ditoiu, I. Copaci, O. Motoi, L. Leurzean, A. Andronesi, M. “ Voiculescu, presented in Scientific Session of Fundeni Clinical Institute and Cardiovascular Diseases Institute C.C. Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania, 9-10 December 2004

19. “Treatment of non-variceal upper digestive haemorrhage” , AV Ditoiu, expert in the National Consensus elaborated by the Romanian Society of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy, 9-11 June 2005

20. „The efficacy of triple therapy treatment with probiotics in eradicating helicobacter pylori infection in gastrodueodenal ulcer” I. Copaci, L. Micu, AV Ditoiu, M. Voiculescu, in The 18th United European Gastroenterology Week. Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 October 2010

25. “A prospective randomized trial comparing medical versus endoscopic treatment in prevention of variceal rebleeding in patients with HCV cirrhosis”, I. Copaci, A. Ditoiu, L. Micu, M. Voiculescu, in The XVII-th National Congess of Hepatology, Bucharest, Romania, 28-29 September 2007

26. “The efficacy of triple therapy treatment with probiotics in eradicating helicobacter pylori infection in gastrodueodenal ulcer „ I. Copaci, L. Micu, AV Ditoiu, M. Voiculescu, 18th United European Gastroenterology Week. Barcelona, Spain , 23-27 October 2010

27. “A prospective randomized trial comparing medical versus endoscopic treatment in prevention of variceal rebleeding in patients with HCV cirrhosis” , I Copaci, A. Ditoiu, L. Micu, M. Voiculescu, presented in The XVII th National Congress of Hpatology, Bucharest, Romania, 28-29 septembrie 2007

SUMMARY OF LANGUAGES

English – B2 level

French – B2 level

SUMMARY OF INTERESTS