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Leon Dănăilă (born 1 July 1933 in Darabani, in Botosani County, Romania) is a graduate of the Faculty of General Medicine of Jassy, as well as the Faculty of Psychology and Philosophy of Bucharest. He is a prolific author and has been responsible for a reduction in neurosurgical mortality at his hospital.
Education
After his graduation from the former Faculty in 1958, he worked for three years as a General Practitioner with the Sanitary District of Comanesti and Darmanesti, in Bacău County. By competitive examination, in 1961 he was appointed Resident Neurosurgeon at the Neurosurgery Clinic of Bucharest, where he has remained up to the present time. He completed his specialty residency in 1966 and became a Doctor of Medicine - PhD - in 1973. In 1981 he was named a Senior Physician, 2nd degree, and became Head of the Vascular Neurosurgery Department VII. In 1991, by contest, he was named Professor of Neurosurgery at the Bucharest Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Psychoneurology at the Titu Maiorescu University of Bucharest. Professor Leon Dănăilă presently serves on the Teaching Board of the Faculty of Medicine at Bucharest, appointed in 1992. He has also been Head of the Neurosurgery Department of that institution since 1996, in addition to President of Romanian Neurosurgery Societry since 1997. In 1980, Professor Dănăilă was granted a Fulbright Scholarship, tenable for a year, enabling him to work at the Neurosurgery Clinic of the University Hospital of New York. In July 1981 he travelled to the Netherlands for specialized studies in vascular neurosurgery and attended the Burdenke Neurosurgery Institute in Moscow. Furthermore, he has attended lectures and seminars in Budapest, Dusseldorf, Brussels, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a course in Paris.
Surgical career
Following his travels, Professor Dănăilă was able to perform the most complex of neurosurgical operations, including occlusion of aneurysm of the arterial vertebro-basilar system, ablation of the third ventricle tumors, surgical management of skull base tumors, carotidian and middle cerebral endarterectomy, and extra- and intracranial anastomosis. He also succeeded in reducing operation mortality from operations to percentages comparable with those reported by the world’s most reputable neurosurgical clinics. Thus the surgical mortality rate in Bucharest fell from 50% to 2-6% for acoustic nerve neuroma and from 49% to 3% for intracerebral aneurysm cases. These reductions were aided by the endowment of the operating theatre with a surgical microscope and laser. From Dr. Dănăilă's viewpoint, the department that he leads is unique for Romania. So far, he made over 23,000 operations, of which 10,300 used the surgical microscope and 800 used CO2 and Nd:YAG lasers.
Bibliography
In the course of his career, Professor Danaila has communicated and published 317 scientific works, 59 of which appeared in foreign specialty journals. Several of these works are known as world novelties and include "Logorrhea syndrome with hyperkinesia", "Ultrastructural changes of the cerebral substance and of the small vessels in the cerebral cortex determined by atherosclerosis", "The interaction of the two cerebral hemispheres in the integration of the language system", and "Histological studies of normal and pathological human cerebral tissue irradiated by CO2 laser". He has authored 39 books and co-authored another nine, among them
- "Spinal Neurinoma", published in 1972,
- "Psychoneurology" in 1983, volumes 2 and 3 of
- "Vascular Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord" in 1985,
- "Romanian Neurosurgery", volumes I and II, in 1986 and 1987 respectively,
- "Cardiovascular Thromboembolism" also in 1987,
- "Psychiatric Surgery" and "Cerebral Atherosclerosis" both in 1988,
- "The treatment of Brain Tumors" in 1993,
- "Alzheimer Disease" in 1996,
- "Sculpture in the Brain" in 1998,
- Apoptosis (1999, 2002),
- Handbook of Neuropsychology vol I (2000, 2002) and
- Up to Dateness and Prospects in Neurosurgery (2000),
- Atlas of Surgical Pathology of the Brain (2000, 2001),
- Lasers in Neurosurgery (2001),
- Arterial and Venous Vascularization of the Brain (2001),
- Neurosurgical Synthesis (2002),
- Atherosclerosis of the Brain (2004),
- Atlas of cerebrovasular pathology (2005),
- Cell death in the vascular diseases of the brain (2005),
- Clinic and morphology of expansive processes on central nervos system (2005),
- Cerebrovascular malformations - an atlas of histopathology and ultrastructure (2005),
- The vascular wall and the intracerebral hemorrhage – an atlas of light and electron microscopy (2005),
- Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (2006),
- The interstitial cells of the human barain (2006),
- Cerebral Vascular Occlusions – an atlas of hystopathology and ultrastructure (2006),
- Handbook of Neuropsychology vol II (2006),
- Neurosurgical pathology of hypophisis (2006),
- Vasculogenesis, Angiogenesis and Vascular tumorigenesis in the Brain – an atlas of cerebrovascular cytohistopathology (2007).
Besides being a Titular Member of the Romanian Academy, Professor Dănăilă is a member of the Romanian Medical Academy, the Romanian Academy of Scientists, The New York Academy of Sciences, London Diplomatic Academy, L`Union Medical Balkanique, the Balkan Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, the Biomedical Optics Society, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the Société Française de Pharmacologie Clinique et de Térapeutique, the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, the International Psychogeriatric Association, the European Association of Neurosurgical Sciences, the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, the Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, the American Heart Association, International Stroke Society (Japan), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003), European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (2003) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (2004), member of ANICADO (2006). Moreover, he sits on Editorial Committees of the "Romanian Journal of reconstructive Microsurgery", "Romanian Neurosurgery", "Romanian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry", “National Medical Review” and „Proceedings of the Romanian Academy”. He is Editor-in-chief to "Romanian Journal of Neurosurgery". For his work on neurosurgical instruments and cranial and meningeal prosthetic appliances Professor Dănăilă has been recognised on 18 occasions with a "Certificate of Inventor" and on ten additional occasions with a "Certificate of Innovator". His books entitled "Treatment of the Cerebral Tumors", “Apoptosis”, “Atlas of Surgical Pathology of the Brain” and "Lasers in Neurosurgery” has been awarded a prize from the Romanian Academy in 1995, 2001, 2002 and 2003 whilst he won the "R.E. del Vivo" International Award in 1996. He was the first to receive citizenship of honour in Darabani (May 21, 1999) and Dorohoi (September 18, 1999) towns. He was graduate of honour of “Grigore Ghica” College from Dorohoi (September 18, 1999) and he received "Diploma of Academic Excellence” from Bucharest University of Medicine (2004). Due to his many accomplishments, he was named an ABI World Laureate in 1999.
In 2007, he became a member of management committee in the following three programms of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology):
- COST Action BM0605 – Consciousness
- COST Action BM0601- Neuromath
- COST Action B30 – Neural Regeneration and Plasticity
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