Ioana Dana Alexa graduated from the
University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T.Popa” Iasi, Romania, in 1986. She
has been a Senior Specialist in Internal Medicine since 1998 and a Senior
Specialist in Geriatry-Gerontology since 2007. In this capacity, she founded the
Geriatric Clinic (25 beds) in 2004 in the Clinical Hospital “Dr. C.I. Parhon”
Iasi, the only one at that time in the northeast region of Romania. Since
2014, she has been a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and
Geriatry-Gerontology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T.
Popa” Iasi, Romania. In this capacity, she introduced in 2004 Geriatrics as
part of the curricula for students and nurses from the Faculty of Medicine of
Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy. She is currently Head of
the Geriatric Department, Coordinator of the Residency Training in Geriatry and
Gerontology, and Co-coordinator of the Residency Training in Internal Medicine.
She is Vice President of the Romanian Society of Geriatry and Gerontology. One
of her major lines of interest is the identification of iatrogeny in the
therapeutic management of elderly patients; this interest materialized in the
organization of the symposium “Iatrogeny and Geriatry” in 2006. Her research
interests include geriatrics aging cardiovascular diseases hypertension in the
elderly.
