Dr. Vlad Herlea, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Patology at Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. He was a medical fellow for two years at the Medical College of Georgia (Cellular Biology Department), USA, between 1995 and 1997. Since 2003, he has been the coordinator of the pathology department of Fundeni Clinical Institute. He received his PhD degree in 2007 with the doctoral thesis “Experimental and morphometrical assay in ductal pancreatic carcinoma”. He is a member of the European Society of Pathology (ESP), the Romanian Society of Normal and Patological Morphology, the Romanian Society of Pathology, the Romanian Association for Liver Study, and the Romanian Foundation for Liver Surgery.