Dana-Teodora Anton-Păduraru currently works as an associate professor at the Department of Mother and Child Medicine, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iaṣi, Romania. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1990, and from the  Faculty of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2018, becoming a Master in Clinical Nutrition in 2010.  She received her PhD degree in 1998. She is a senior pediatrician, and her major research fields of interest are nutrition and metabolism diseases and cystic fibrosis. She was the regional coordinator of the National Health Programme for "Neonatal screening for phenylketonuria, congenital hypothyroidism, and cystic fibrosis” (2009–2012) and is the regional coordinator for “Cystic fibrosis in children” (2009–present). She was the project manager of the ESCRH grant “Developing and implementing an educational program for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy in adolescent girls from rural areas from North-Eastern Romania”.