Maria Dorobantu is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Romania, and head of the Cardiology Department of Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest. She has a special interest in the assessment and treatment of heart failure and arterial hypertension and has been principal investigator of important trials. She is the President of the Romanian Society of Hypertension and the national coordinator of the SEPHAR studies (Study for the Evaluation of Prevalence of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk among the Adult Population of Romania).
Since 2016 she has been the chairperson of the Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation Working Group of Europeam Society of Cardiology.