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SERBAN DINCA-PANAITESCU, Ph.D.

Address:     

Office:

 York University, 4700 Keele Street, 

 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 

 HNES Bldg. # 415

 

Phone:  (416) 736-2100 ext. 33186

E-mail : serband@YorkU.ca  

 

Citizenship:         Romanian,  Canadian

Languages:         English, Romanian, French 

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

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Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Bioengineering and Biotechnology Department, 2001

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M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, 1995

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B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, 1994

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

SUMMARY

o    Research in biomedical engineering – preventive cardiology.  Published over 10 refereed research papers, 25 abstracts and communications.   

o    Teaching assistant at undergraduate level in electrical measurements techniques in medicine.  

o    Technical and clinical experience with GE Medical Systems Information Technologies as a technical support.  Broad knowledge of computerized medical equipment.

 

POSITIONS

 

2002 - present, Assistant Professor

School of Health Policy & Management

York University, Canada

 

1996 - 2001, PhD student                         

“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania

 

1998 - 2001, Biomedical Engineer, Technical Support

Drager Medical / GE Medical Systems Information Technologies

 

1994 - 1998, Biomedical engineer, Research assistant

Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania

 

1997, Visiting Research Fellow

Hunter Holmes McGuire Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

 

Lecturer

1998 - 1999, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania  

1995 - 1997, AISTEDA Institute of Applied Informatics, Bucharest

 

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS:

 

Medical Informatics: development of software aiming at detecting the cardiovascular dysfunction in the sub-clinical phase by autonomic control prodroms.

Heart rate and ventricular rate variability analysis by spectral and cross-spectral methods, wavelet approach and neural networks. 

Neurocardiology: research related to left ventricular depolarization. Software development for T wave alternans analysis.

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

 

Technical:

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       Programming Languages: Borland C, Matlab, Turbo Pascal 

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       Acquisition systems:  CODAS Dataq Instr, Biopac  

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       Statistics: SPSS

 

Office: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Adobe Framemaker, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes     

 

AWARDS

 

1995.  Special award of the Medical Informatics Chair, Timisoara -  MEDINF

1997.  Paper competition award - Annu. Conf. Institute of Public Health Bucharest

 

Membership in academic and scientific societies

      

Applied Biomedical Sciences Society “MENS CORDIS” - Bucharest, Romania, member, 1994

 

Volunteer experience

     

      Organizing “Heart Day” on 4 May 1997 and 9 May 1998 in Bucharest, manifestations including seminars and physical activity for making population aware about cardiovascular risk factors and prevention methods.

 

References: available upon request

 

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