Scientist and man of faith: Neurosurgeon Alexandru Vlad Ciurea awarded with the Honorary Year Diploma 2026translated

The Diploma of the Honorary Year 2026 awarded by the Patriarch of Romania to the neurosurgeon Alexandru Vlad Ciurea was handed over to the beloved doctor on Sunday, who is a member of the Parish Council of the "St. Gheorghe" Church - Nou.

Parish priest Emil Nedelea Carămizaru made the announcement on Facebook, calling the eminent neurosurgeon "a scientist and a man of faith at the same time".

The diploma was awarded to the doctor in the context of the local proclamation of the canonization of the Holy Lady Maria Brâncoveanu, a ceremony held in the "St. Gheorghe" Church - New on August 16, 2026.

The year 2026 was proclaimed in the Romanian Patriarchate as the Year of Homage to the Pastoral of the Christian Family and the Commemorative Year of Women in the Calendar (martyrs, martyrs, pious women, wives and mothers).

Short biography Prof. Dr. Alexandru Vlad Ciurea graduated in 1964 from the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest and trained under the guidance of the founders of Romanian neurosurgery, acad. Constantin N. Arseni, Dr. Lenke Horvath (pediatric neurosurgery) and Dr. Sofia Ionescu Ogrezeanu, to whom he also dedicated a book.

In the early 1980s, he discovered his own method of draining cerebrospinal fluid, which…