Name of the research center: Disturbances of Growth and development on children BELIEVE
Director of the research center: Professor Marginean Otilia, MD PhD
Date of establishment/ acknowledgement: 05.03.2021
THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS is specific to the child and if it takes place in physiological parameters, it ensures an optimal state of health in adulthood; any disturbance of this process at the level of the digestive, endocrine, respiratory, articular bone, etc. system it will express in adult life as a chronic pathology.
Our research center involves a unitary and exhaustive approach to the complex pathologies of the child, trying to capture the fine, recoverable changes from childhood.
The accredited staff of this center is represented by 5 university professors, 3 from the University „Victor Babes” Timisoara, 1 from national universities (University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași) and 1 international (dean of the faculty from Leipzig). There are also 5 primary care physicians, 2 specialists, 3 physicians have 2 specialties and 2-3 related skills.
We are currently involved
- in national endocrine disease screening programs – Hypothyroidism, vitamin D deficiency and its implications, diabetes and other metabolic diseases (hyperphenylalaninemia, methylmalonic acidemia, etc.), enteral enzymopathies, inflammatory bowel disease
- international research programs – on the European register of sexual development disorders, therapeutic interventions in international programs as well as the use of vaccines in prophylaxis in childhood or treatment in hepatitis C, of the child. Currently, we approach the complex process of growth and development, on the endocrine, gastrointestinal, articular-bone, metabolic, renal, pulmonary sector.
We can perform dynamic and static hormonal determinations, the top enteral investigation performing endoscopy – with age-adapted endoscopes – with the analysis of the biopsy piece, imaging determinations .
Being anchored in national and international companies, working groups, national and international, we are open to local, national and international collaborations in the following fields of
- Endocrine diseases
- Metabolism diseases
- Gastrointestinal diseases
- Rheumatic diseases
- Lung diseases
- Renal diseases
Titular members:
Nr. | Nume, prenume | Grad didactic / de cercetare/doctorand |
1. | Otilia Marginean | Professor, MD PhD |
2. | Oana Andreea Belei | Lecturer, MD PhD |
3. | Iulius Juganaru | Lecturer, MD PhD |
4. | Teofana Otilia Bizerea – Moga | Assistant lecturer, MD PhD |
5. | Munteanu Andrei Ioan | Assistant lecturer, MD PhD |
6. | Nicoară Delia | Assistant lecturer, MD PhD |
7. | Smarandache Raluca | PhD student |
8. | Păun Andrei | PhD student |
9. | Miloicov Vlad Bogdan | PhD student |
10. | Foghiş Cornel-Flavius | PhD student |
Associated members:
Nr. | Nume, prenume
| Student, masterand, postdoc, medic rezident, personal didactic auxiliar și nedidactic |
1. | Chelu Alexandru Daniel | student |
Collaborators:
Nr. | Grad didactic/cercetare | Afiliere |
1. | Stoian Dana, MD PhD | UMFVBT, Endocrinologie |
2. | Mozos Ioana, MD PhD | UMFVBT Fiziopatologie |
3. | Kiss Wieland, MD PhD | Universitatsklinik fur Kinder und Jugendliche, Abteilung Endokrinologie, Leipzig, Deutschland |
4. | Rapaport Robert, MD PhD | The Hall Family Center for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, SUA |