Professor Octavian Dumitru Unc MD. PhD (1957-2020)

Professor Octavian Unc was one of Dobrogea's most brilliant surgeons and cultural people of the contemporary period. He was not only a surgeon and an exemplary teacher, for he also left behind heritage assets in the field of Dobrogen and national medical literature and historiography.
He was born on March 15, 1957, in Zărneşti (Braşov County). He was a brilliant student of the Ovidius High School in Constanta (then a graduate in 1985 of the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest) with an average of 9.74, which was very difficult at the time.
He followed the three-year internship in Constanta, then two more years in which he was a district doctor in Cerchezu. He was in Cerchezu when the events of December 1989 took place, and when the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Constanta was established on March 20 1990 (the birthday of the poet Ovidius, who also gave the name of the University situated on the bank of the Black Sea). From that moment, which marked a turning point and a historic leap of the medicine of the old Tomis, the young doctor Unc tied his destiny to surgery and the Dobrogean university environment from which he never broke up until the day he passed away.
The young university assistant and resident physician from the year 1990 has carried out his theoretical and practical training in surgery at Coltea Hospital in Bucharest, but especially in the newly established Clinic of Surgery in Constanta. Then he rose through national competitions both in surgery and on the academic line, becoming a primary physician, professor and a PhD coordinator. His doctoral thesis drafted in 1999 was entitled "The value of the complex treatment of breast cancer", this area marking the rest of his life. After further training abroad, he became one of the greatest experts in senology in Romania. He performed in all surgical domains, but senology was the domain he was passionate about...

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