Prof. Carol Stanciu, MD, FRCP (London), rector of the "Gr. T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iasi (1992–2004), dean of the Faculty of Medicine of “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania (2004–2008), president of the Romanian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Romanian Society of Digestive Endoscopy, president of the Society of Doctors and Naturalists from Iasi; representative for Eastern Europe in the International Society for Disease of the Esophagus; chairman of the Ethics Committee for two consecutive terms of the World Organization of Gastroenterology. He graduated from the "Mihai Viteazul" Military High School in Alba-Iulia (1957), then from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi (1963).