1. Personal information

First name: Nădăşan

Surname: Valentin

Address: Str. Voinicenilor no. 747B, Loc. Sintana of Mures, Jud. Mures, Postal code 547565, Romania

Nationality: Romanian

Date of birth: May 17, 1964

Gender: Male

Marital status: Married, two children



2. Education and training

1983-1989 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tg. Mures, Faculty of Medicine

1989 diploma of Medical Doctor



3. Doctoral Studies

2008 PhD student at the School of Doctoral Studies, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tîrgu Mureş, Department of Hygiene.

Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramona Ureche

Research topic: The Quality of Health Related Information on the Romanian webspace



4. Work experience

1989-1991 Municipal Hospital, Reghin

1991-1992 Felowship in Lifestyle Medicine, Wildwood Lifestyle Center and Hospital, GA, USA

1993-1995 Administrator, Health and Preventive Medicine Center, Herghelia, Mureş County

1995 - 1997 Editor- medical publications, Idea Publishing House, Cluj

1997 - 2009 Editor- medical publications, Prisma Publishing House, Tîrgu Mureş

1999-2009 Editor, Life&Health Magazine, national monthly health education journal

1999-2009 Regional Coordinator of the „Health&Education” Society



5. Scientific papers

• The importance of lifestyle in schizophrenia, oral presentation at the First Congress of the Health and Temperance Association, Cluj Napoca, 1991.

• Complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of asthma, co-author, National Conference of Romanian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Tîrgu Mureş, 2001.

• The lifestyle of high school students, oral presentation at the “Health and Education” Society National Convention, Bucharest, 2003.

• Lifestyle - risk factors during pregnancy in a women group from Mures area, co-author, published in extenso, in Papers of the Sibiu Alma Mater University International Conference, Sibiu, in March. 2009.

• Hereditary angioedema patient education and professional web resources, first author, published in full in the Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureş, vol 55, Supl. 3, 2009.

• The Romanian Netowork for Hereditary angioedema. Four years experience, co-author, published in full in the Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureş, vol 55, Supl. 3, 2009.

• Risks of food behavior during pregnancy in a sample of women from Mureş County, coauthor, oral presentation in the Symposium FPAS, 10th edition, organized by the Foundation for Healthy Food, Bucharest, in Dec. 2008. Also published in summary in Magyar Epidemiology, Suppl, Tîrgu Mureş, April. 2009.

• An assessment of the Romanian Internet users' perception of preventive and curative properties of food and dieting, first author, published in full in the Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureş, vol 55, 2, 2009.



6. Health education activities

• Authored and published 8 books about healthy lifestyle, risk factor modification and prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases.

• Authored over 150 health education articles published in the Life&Health Magazine, 1999-2009.

• Authored and published over 30 brochures on health education topics, prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases, healthy eating, smoking cessation etc.

• Held dozens of lectures, conferences and public seminars on various preventive medicine topics, 1993-2008.

• Translated into Romanian the „Breathe Free plan to stop smoking", 1994.

• Designed and edited audio-visual materials in electronic format (CD, DVD) on chronic non-communicable disease prevention and healthy nutrition, Prisma Publishing House, Tîrgu Mureş, 2000-2009.

• Founder and principal contributor of two health education websites: www.sanatateplus.net, www.sanatateplus.ro, 2005-2010.

• Administrator and principal contributor to: www.asociatiasanatate.ro website of the Association for Health and Education, www.podis.ro.

• Administrator and contributor to www.haenet.ro, the Romanian Hereditary Angioedema Network's website.



7. Languages

English: reading, speaking, writing (advanced)

Hungarian, reading, speaking (medium)

French: read (medium), spoken (beginner)



8. IT skills and experience

Operating knowledge and advanced skills text editing software (MS Word, Open Office, Adobe PageMaker), DTP (Adobe InDesign, Corel), image processing (Adobe Photoshop), video editing (Adobe Premiere, Adobe EncoreDVD), webdesign (Drupal platform, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Dreamweaver).