Studies, University and academic degrees

- Faculty of Medicine, Bucharest, 1915 – 1922

- University assistant at Prof Dr Daniel Danielopolu’s Clinic

- Lectereur at the Second Medical Clinic, Bucharest, 1940 – 1946 (coworker of Prof Dr Daniel Danielopolu, member of the Academy)

- Full professor of Clinical Medicine, Timisoara, 1945 – 1949

- Doctor of Sciences, 1961

- Honorary member of the Academy of Medical Scienes of the Socialist Republic of  Romania, 1969

- Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Bragauca Paulista, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1973

- Member of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, 1974.

Activities and functions

-         Non – resident medical student of Bucharest hospitals, 1919 – 1922

-         Resident medical student of Bucharest hospitals (first classified at the competitive examination), 1922 – 1925

-         Chief cardiologist at the Romanian Railways Hospital, 1931 – 1943

-         Chief physician and head of department at the “Filantropia” Hospital, 1943 – 1947

-         Annual Secretary of the Academy of Medicine, 1947 – 1948

-         Active member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, Internal Medicine Departament, 1945 – 1948

-         President of the Society of Medical Sciences, Timisoara, 1947 – 1949

-         Head of the Physiology Departamebt, Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, 1949 – 1958

-         Director of the Bucharest Institute of Geriatries, 1952 – 1974

-         General Director of the National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatries, Bucharest, since 1974

-         Secretary of the Romanian Society of Gerontology, 1956 – 1959

-         President of the Romanian Society of Medical Sciences of the Socialist Republic of Romania, since 1959