Prof Ioana Ciuca, PhD, is a member of the Department of Pediatrics at the Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania, and the Coordinator of the Pediatric Pneumology Training Programme. She is also a consultant paediatrician and the current Head of the Paediatric Pulmonology Unit at Clinical County Hospital Timisoara and is certified in paediatric respiratory medicine. She is the Vice President of the Romanian National Cystic Fibrosis Society and a member of several scientific societies, including the European Respiratory Society, the Romanian Society of Pulmonology, the European Society of Human Genetics and the Romanian Paediatric Society.

Prof Ciuca has written papers on paediatric respiratory medicine and has participated in studies of cystic fibrosis, including the European Centers of Reference Network for Cystic Fibrosis (ECORN-CF). She has also received five bursaries for training programmes and courses from the European Respiratory Society and three awards for the best poster presented at the Congress of International Pediatric Pulmonology (2019, 2022) and the King’s John Price Paediatric Respiratory Conference in London (2019). She is actively involved in the development of Romania’s paediatric pulmonology training programme. Her special interests are lung ultrasound, cystic fibrosis, asthma, child pneumonia, chronic cough and preschool wheezing.