Simona Fica - MD, PhD, FACE
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Simona Fica, MD, PhD, Professor of Endocrinology, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Elias University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Simona Fica is Professor of Endocrinology and Vice-Dean at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
In 2003 she established the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Disease Department at Elias University Hospital and she has been the Head of this Department ever since. She is Senior Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes, with more than 30 years of clinical, educational and research experience. She became PhD in 1989 and her thesis involved the pathology of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Professor Simona Fica is the author of numerous publications in national and international scientific journals, book articles as well as lectures on national and international conferences. Her research interest focuses on obesity and its metabolic consequences, the results of obesity surgery, infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome, neuro-endocrine and pituitary tumors.
She was the Project Director of four research grants obtained through national competition, mainly concerning obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome and neuroendocrine tumors. Between 2010 and 2013, Professor Simona Fica was the President of Romanian Society of Endocrinology and at present she is the Past President.
She is member in many other national and international societies; she also represents Romanian Society of Endocrinology at the ESE Council of Affiliated Societies (ECAS). Professor Simona Fica is member in the Editorial Board of “Acta Endocrinologica” – new series.