Elena Cojocaru is a Senior Pathologist at the Emergency Hospital for Children at St. Mary, Iaşi, Romania. She is an Associate Professor at Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine. She specializes in adult and pediatric pathology and cytology. She holds a PhD in morphopathology, focusing on atherosclerosis, and is engaged in postdoctoral research in POSDRU/159/1.5/S/133377 (Program of excellence in multidisciplinary doctoral and postdoctoral research in chronic diseases).