TOVARU Serban, MD, PhD
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Nationality Romanian
Occupational field  Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology
Work experience   Professor, Discipline of Oral Medicine/ Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania, Chief of Discipline
  Member of the Teaching Council of the Faculty of Dentistry from 2004 to 2012
  Vice dean from 2008 to 2012
  Member of employment and promotion committees 2002-2007
Education and training 
1982 PhD  “Oral Lichen planus, morphological and histochemical study”, Bucharest, Faculty of Stomatology, Prof. Valerian Popescu
1993 Oral Medicine and Pathology competence certificated by the Institut de Stomatologie, Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, Prof. F. Guilbert and  Prof. H. Szpirglas
  1997 Certificate attested by Maxilo-Facial-Surgery Clinique and Dentistry, Hospital Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, Prof. F. Guilbert
Activity in medical universitary teaching 1969-1985 Assistant Discipline of Anatomy, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania
1985-1996 Assistant Discipline of Maxillofacial Surgery, same Institute
1996-2002 Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine, same Institute
  2002- 2008 Associate Professor, tutorials and seminars with students, postuniversitary courses for dentists and residents
  2009- present Professor Department of Oral Medicine, courses, tutorials and seminars with students and residents and Graduate courses  for dentists
       Educational activity for   dentists Lecturer in more than 40 conferences on themes of oral medicine and pathology since 2000 to present, in continuous medical education programmes
Publishing activity 
Reference books The author of the textbook “Medical pathology for dentists”, Ed Cerma, Bucharest 1999, ISBN, the first of its kind in Romanian literature addressed to both students and doctors

Author of “Oral Medicine and Pathology”, Q Med Ed Publishing, ISBN 978-973-88553-6-6, Bucharest, 2008
Published articles 
1981 to present- author or coauthor of 58 articles published from, published in the country or abroad, of which 9 indexed ISI, 14 articles indexed  PubMed from 1983
2002 to present- author or co-author of a large number of scientific papers, conferences published in  more than 70 volumes of summaries of national and international congresses 

Scientific research activity Director in the project “Interdisciplinary research to achieve an esthetic composite restoration techniques for adhesion based on nanoparticles and a new structure of organic monomers”  developed under contract no. 198/20/07.2006 CEEX Excellence in Research Program, funded by the National State for Scientific research, and under the coordination AMCSIT- Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. Acronym NANOCOMP. The project was completed in September 2008.
Member of international research project ”Oxidative stress in oral disease: biochemical and clinical study”, numbered 38 in the scientific program of bilateral cooperation Romania-Italia, signed in Rome on 5 December 2005 and completed in 2009, whose results were presented in the article: “Oxidative stress markers in oral lichen planus” published in BioFactors 33 (2008)- IMPACT journal; the article is a premier global scientific
Research specialist in the “Complex studies on therapeutic alternatives (including prosthetic prototypes) for patients with respiratory disorders during sleep in order to improve quality of life and socio-professional reintegration (SASPROT)”, conducted under the financing contract no. 61-33/14.09.2007, the State budget- funded by Ministry of Education, Research and Youth Partnerships Program in the priority areas for the period 14.09.2007-14.09.2010
Health care and administrative activities MD, Head of  Dentistry Department, 1986-1998  Clinical Hospital CFR  No. 2 Bucharest
-1998 to present Head of Oral Pathology Discipline, Faculty of Dentistry, Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila,  Bucharest.
1996 to present Head of Service of Clinical Oral Medicine / Oral Pathology, Hospital Dan Theodorescu, Bucharest
Member of the following national professional commities Board of Dentistry of the Medical College of Romania between 1997-2000
2000- to present Member of the American Academy of Oral Medicine
2007 to  present Member of the European Association of Oral Medicine
2007 to  present  Member of the Société Française of Maxillo-Facial Surgery Dentistry et (SFSCMF)
2009  to present Member of SIPMO
Patents and inventions Inventor Certificate no. 88934/06.12.1985 Sergiu Florică Eng, Dr. Ş. Ţovaru - mixing electromechanical device

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