Laura Poantă Explained

Laura Poantă
Birth Date:10 March 1971
Birth Place:Agnita, Sibiu County, Romania
Occupation:physician, translator, painter
Nationality:Romanian
Period:since 1999
Alma Mater:Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Child:yes
Profession:Professor

Laura Poantă (born March 10, 1971) is a Romanian physician, medical scientist, author, translator, and painter.

Education and career

She was born Agnita, Sibiu County, the daughter of writers Petru Poantă and Irina Petraș. She graduated from the “Romul Ladea” Fine Arts College in Cluj-Napoca in 1989, with a degree in drawing, graphic design and decoration, and next, from the Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy also in Cluj-Napoca, with a licence in general medicine (1995). In 2002 she became an instructor, then lecturer (in 2009) at the Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and since 2004/2005, PhD and senior internal medicine physician.[1] Since 2010, she has been the president of the Doctor – Artists Society of Cluj.[2]

Publishing activity

She debuted in 1999, with a translation from Italian into Romanian of Lift, by Edmondo de Amicis, and with the medical volume Abecedarul vieții sexuale/ABC of sexual life. She also translated, from English and Italian to Romanian, works of Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Mansfield, Mark Twain, Luigi Pirandello, and David Greig. She collaborated to the magazines Viața medicală, Ziarul financiar, Clujul medical, Revista română de bioetică, Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine, European Journal of Internal Medicine, Acta Diabetologica, Medical Ultrasonography, Medical Update, and other publications. She realized the presentation of the art reproduction on the cover of JAMA (Romanian painting) in four consecutive issues, and many other book covers. She edited and devised, between 2007 and 2012, the Physician Winter Exhibition’s catalogues, dedicated to the works of artist physicians, organized within the UMF “Iuliu Hatieganu” Days, that are in her custody since 2008. She is peer reviewer for European Journal of Internal Medicine and Dove Press journals. She wrote in collective volumes, published by Writers Union – Cluj Department: Cartea mea fermecată / My charmed book (2009), Invitaţie la vers / Invitation to rhyme (2010), Varză à la Cluj / Cabbage à la Cluj (2010), Promenada scriitorilor / Writers promenade (2012), Marea scriitorilor. De la Olimp la zidul puterii / Writers’ Sea. From Olymp to Power’s Wall (2012).[3]

Art work

Poantă has been present in a considerable number of solo exhibitions (University Library Lucian Blaga), in the paintings salons of physicians in Cluj, on the covers of over 150 volumes published by editors such as Dacia, Libra, House Science books, Pallas Athena, Clusium, The Didactic and Pedagogical Publishing House etc.[4]

Works

Translations from world literature (written in English and Italian) into Romanian

Volumes of specialized studies (in the field of medicine)

References

Notes

  1. http://www.uniuneascriitorilor-filialacluj.ro/detalii_membrii_958_Laura-POANTA.html The Writers’ Union of Romania, Cluj
  2. http://www.smruk.org/?p=670 Vlad Schlezak, “Interview with the new president of the Romanian Doctor – Artists Society”, April 2010
  3. Web site: Laura Poanta CV.
  4. Paula Romanescu, “'Între două altare”, in ProSaeculum, 2006, no. 4.

Exhibitions of graphics (personal and collective)

Affiliations

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