Octavian Buda#
| Membership Number: | 5457 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ROMANIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://umfcd.ro |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1455-8246 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - 2017 Elected President of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH)
- Since 2009 Leading Chair: Professor in the History of Medicine at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Romania
- Since 2005 Senior forensic psychiatrist at the same department
- Since 1994 Researcher at the Forensic Psychiatry Department of the National Institute of Legal Medicine ‘Mina Minovici’, Bucharest
- 2001 PhD. Postgraduate (Doctor in medical sciences) at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Carol Davila’ - Bucharest
- 1997 Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest
- 1992 M.D. Graduation at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Carol Davila’ - Bucharest
Fields of Scholarship
- Intellectual history
- Social history of forensic medicine and psychiatry
- Medical humanities and epistemology
- History of epidemics
- Forensic psychiatry and criminology
- History of medicine
- Cultural and medical anthropology
- Bioethics
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Young Investigator Awardee of the 14th Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (IAFS), Tokyo
- 2000 Posterprize Winner of the German Society of Legal Medicine, 79th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Legal Medicine (DGRM), Essen
- Since 2010, Vice-president of the Romanian Society for the History of Medicine (SRIM)
- 2011 ISHM Prize Winner, 6th Meeting of the International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM), Barcelona
- 2011 Book prize of the Romanian Medical Association (AMR)
- 2014 ISHM Prize Winner, 44th Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM), Tbilisi
- 2017 Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, elected corresponding member
- 2018 Romanian Academy of Scientists, elected corresponding member
- 2019 Book Prize of the Romanian Academy of Scientists
