Prof. Dr. Alexandru Vlad Ciurea is a doctor in medical sciences and a first-degree researcher. He graduated in 1964 from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest. He has published hundreds of books and specialized works in Romania and abroad. Prof. Dr. Alexandru Vlad Ciurea was decorated with the Star of Romania in the rank of Knight in recognition of his merits and achievements within Romanian Neurosurgery, a distinction awarded by the President of Romania, Klaus Werner Iohannis, on 28 November 2019. He holds six “Doctor Honoris Causa” titles at prestigious universities in Romania and abroad and has been the vice president of the Commission for Neurosurgery of the Ministry of Health since 2018. He is the scientific director at the Sanador Clinical Hospital, a professor of neurosurgery at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the founder of the National Center of Excellence in Neurosurgery, and the honorary president of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery. The number of brain surgeries he has performed in his extensive career has long surpassed 23,000.