Despina-Manuela Toader is a senior cardiologist at the Emergency Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania, since 2003. She is Clinical Head of the European accredited echocardiographic laboratory of the Cardiology Clinic of this hospital since 2019. Her scientific activity includes over 130 communications and publications in cardiovascular research (hypertension, echocardiography, myocardial ischemia), six investigator grants, and two awards in the field of hypertension. She is a member of the Romanian Society of Cardiology, Romanian Society of Hypertension, European Society of Cardiology, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, European Society of Hypertension, Balkan Medical Union, American Society of Echocardiography and British Society of Echocardiography.