Background
Danaila, Leon Ghiorghe was born on July 1, 1933 in Darabani, Botosani, Romania. Son of Ghiorghe and Maria (Cretu) Danaila.
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Leon Ghiorghe Danaila
Edit Profileneuropsychologist neurosurgeon
Education
Dănăilă worked for three years as a general practitioner with the sanitary district of Comanesti and Darmanesti, in Bacău County. In 1961 he was appointed resident neurosurgeon at the Neurosurgery Clinic of Bucharest, where he has remained. He completed his specialty residency in 1966 and became a Doctor of Medicine - Doctor of Philosophy - in 1973.
In 1981 he was named a Senior Physician, 2nd degree, and became head of the Vascular Neurosurgery Department VII. In 1991, he was named Professor of Neurosurgery at the Bucharest Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Psychoneurology at the Titu Maiorescu University of Bucharest.
Dănăilă 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 the Romanian Neurosurgery Society since 1997. In 1980, Dănăilă was granted a Fulbright Scholarship, enabling him to work at the neurosurgery clinic of the University Hospital of New New York
In July 1981 he travelled to the Netherlands for specialized studies in vascular neurosurgery and attended the Burdenke Neurosurgery Institute in Moscow.
Career
He is a prolific author and has been responsible for a reduction in neurosurgical mortality at his hospital. He is a graduate of the Faculty of General Medicine of Iaşi, as well as the Faculty of Psychology and Philosophy of Bucharest. Following his travels, 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 extraand 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.
So far, he made over 23,000 operations, of which 10,300 used the surgical microscope and 800 used Carbon dioxide and Nd:YAG lasers.
Achievements
Membership
Member Romanian Academy (correspondent), Romanian Neurosurgery Association (president since 1997), Romanian Medical Academy, New York Academy of Sciences, L'Union Medical Balkanique, The Balkan Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, The biomedical Optics Society, International Society Optical Engineering, Society Francaise de Pharmacologie Clinique et de Terapeutique, International Society Psychoneuroendocrinology, International Psychogeriatric Association, European Association Neurosurg.
Connections
Married Alexandrina Ionescu, August 28, 1960.
