Honorary Committee
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Diana Păun, MD, PhDPresidential Advisor on Healthcare, RO
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Sevda Memet, MDHealthcare Investment Banking Associate, Lazard, USA
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Andrei Baciu, MDSecretary of State at Ministry of Healthcare, RO
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Iulian PopescuPresident of the Excelsior Association for excellence in education.
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Cristina Berteanu, MD, PhDMedical Director at Medical Center Neolife, RO

Diana Păun, MD, PhD
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Sevda Memet, MD
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Sevda Memet, from Constanța, Romania, is a master’s degree graduate in business administration (MBA) at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a master’s degree in public policy at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. She graduated summa cum laude from Ovidius University with a medical degree. She aspires to help cancer patients by creating the first oncological system in Romania that will focus on integrated medicine and genetic testing. At Constanta Regional Hospital, she was chief resident in the hematology-oncology and rare diseases department. Previously, she interned at the hospital in the gastroenterology and plastic surgery departments, and at MedStar Clinic in general and vascular surgery. She was awarded national honors from the Romanian government for medical research and medical entrepreneurship, and won the grand prize in the NASA Space Settlement Design Contest for designing a self-sufficient colony on Mars.

Andrei Baciu, MD
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Romică-Andrei Baciu is a doctor and liberal politician from Romania, who holds the position of Secretary of State of the Ministry of Health in the Government of Nicolae Ciucă.As Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health, Andrei Baciu has been involved from the beginning, since February 2020, in Romania’s effort to combat COVID-19, coordinated by the Ministry of Health.After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of its responsibilities was to create the testing capacity in Romania to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Testing capacity increased during 2020 from 400 tests per day in March to over 75,000 tests per day during the fall.

Iulian Popescu
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Iulian Popescu is the president of the Excelsior Association for excellence in education. He also owns the company Softtehnica SRL, which operates in the IT field. Also, Iulian Popescu is an associate at the company Evogrande SRL.

Cristina Berteanu, MD, PhD
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