Irinel Popescu

Fundeni Clinic Institute, Center of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation “Dan Setlacec” BucureÃˆâ„¢ti, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy BucureÃˆâ„¢ti, Romania

Biography

Irinel Popescu was born at Filiasi. He followed the Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" – Bucharest that he graduated in 1997 with an average of 9.98 (from 10 maximum possible). He won the “Internship Competition for Surgery Specializations” in his promotion. He became very well known in Romania after he was the first to perform liver transplantation in Romanian hospitals. His specialization is General Surgery and into the last decade he added to this Liver Surgery. The peak of his career was when he performed the first liver transplantation in Romania, in 2000, after returning from USA, where he learned for 3 years liver transplantation techniques. In the following years, he achieved more than 450 liver transplants and 1500 liver resections. He was also nominated to be Expert of European Council in matters of transplants. “Irinel Popescu achieved everything that could have been achieved in transplantation: living patient, adult, children, domino transplant, split-liver, etc, every technique that are available to us to increase the number of transplantation beneficiaries, using even marginal donors. The Bucharest Center is a very valuable one and it deserves a much ample program. The therapeutic possibility offered by the modern medicine and this technique must be available for all the people.” Domenica Forti, MD (runs the General Surgery and Abdominal Transplant Department of “Niguarda” hospital from Milan)