Adrian Covic is currently a senior consultant in Nephrology and Internal Medicine, and a board-certified specialist in Cardiology. He holds a PhD in Medical Sciences and is a Professor in Nephrology at the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, where he also serves as Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Development, and Innovation. He is the Head of the Renal Transplant Unit at Dr. C.I. Parhon Hospital in Iași and the President-elect of the Romanian Society of Nephrology.
Prof. Covic began his clinical and research career as a nephrology fellow in Manchester and Amiens. He later conducted clinical research at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1997, he earned a PhD with the thesis: “Cardiovascular Abnormalities and Determinant Factors in Chronic Kidney Disease.”
He published more than 730 original and review papers in peer-reviewed journals, 34 books. The current Hirsch Index is 107. He was an Associate Editor for NDT, and Editor in Chief (Nephrology) for the International Journal of Urology and Nephrology, and editor / reviewer for several significant journals.
His principal areas of interest are cardiovascular complications in renal disease, dialysis, CKD-MBD, renal anaemia, peritoneal dialysis, and acute renal failure.
Prof. Covic is a past board member of ERA, KDIGO, ERBP, and ERA-EDTA working groups – EUDIAL, EURECAM and CKD-MBD. He has organized several regional European educational courses under the auspices of ERA-EDTA and ISN. For a mandate he has been chair of the ISN/COMGAN Eastern Europe. He has served as president of the Romanian Society of Nephrology and Secretary Treasurer of ERA-EDTA
Prof Covic has won numerous grants (total 2.260.555 €; the most prestigious was MAVIS- Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer) and awards including in 2024, the highest price “Ana Aslan” for Medicine at the Romanian Research Gala organized by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization.
Since 2007, he has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London (FRCP), and since 2018, also of the Edinburgh College (FRCP Edin.). In 2009, he became a member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the ERA-EDTA (FERA) since 2011 and of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) since 2016.