Biciuscă Viorel Associate Professor, at the University of Medicine and Pharmacology of  Craiova, Faculty of Medicine, Discipline of Internal Medicine Pneumology. Graduated of the University of Cariova, Faculty of Medicine, since 1992. Specialization in Internal Medicine since 1996, competent in abdominal ultrasonography (since 1997), Doctor of Medical Sciences (since 2003). Memberships of professional societies: the Romanian Society of Internal Medicine and the Romanian Society of Pneumology. Research areas: hepatology (diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis C and hepatic steatosis), pneumology (diagnosis of lung cancer, diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, diagnosis of lung infections with NTM), and immunology (diagnosis of major collagen diseases).