Past-President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the ESC (2016-2018).
Past-President of the Romanian Society of Cardiology (2020-2023).
Chair, EURObservational Research Programme Committee, European Society of Cardiology (2020-2022)
Member of the Committee for Practice Guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology (2008-2012).

Publications:
More than 300 articles indexed on PubMed.
More than 200 full-text original articles in journals with impact factor.
Hirsch Index by WoS: 63. Citations: over 30.000 ISI citations
Author of 3 books on echocardiography.
Editor of the ESC Textbook on Cardiovascular Imaging (2021).
Winner of >1.000.000 Euro in research grants as Project director.
Member of the International Scientific Board of European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging, Cardiovascular Ultrasound.
Editor-in-Chief of the Romanian Journal of Cardiology (journal of the Romanian Society of Cardiology).
Member of the peer-review committee for J Am Coll Cardiol, Eur Heart J, Circulation, Heart, Am J Cardiol, Eur J Heart Fail, JACC-Imaging, Circulation-Imaging, Am Heart J, etc
Invited lecturer at international congresses: more than 120 invited international lectures (eg Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia)