Nicoleta Tataru, MD 
(Romania), Board of Directors

Nicoleta Tataru, M.D, is the Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital in Oradea, Romania. She graduated in medicine in 1969 from the University of Medicine, Timisoara, Romania. She worked as a general practitioner and between 1971 and 1974 completed her training in adult psychiatry at the Medical University, Bucharest Romania.

After postgraduate studies and working as a consultant psychiatrist, she was promoted to Senior Consultant (1979) and Head of the Acute Adult Psychiatry unit. She is currently Senior Lecturer and Dean at FUKO University, Oradea, Department of Psychology. She is also lecturer at postgraduate course for young doctors, psychiatrists and geriatricians training in Geriatric Psychiatry in Bucharest.

As a reporter for the Eastern European Initiative of IPA, Dr. Tataru has organized an itinerant international course and a summer course in Romania on Geriatric Psychiatry, for psychiatrists from Eastern European countries.

In 1994 she founded the first Geriatric Psychiatry Unit in Romania at the Psychiatry Hospital Nucet. She initiated a project for founding an ambulatory and semi-ambulatory community health centre for the third age in Oradea. For her work she was the first winner of the EAG Research Award announced for Eastern European members in 1995. She is the founder and president of the Romanian Geriatric Psychiatry Association as well as "Worrying about the Grandparents," a non-governmental organization. In 1996 she opened a Community Care Centre for the elderly in Oradea, Romania. She was the chairperson of the organizing committee of the 28th Symposium of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry in September 2000, held in Oradea, Romania. At the same time, she organized the first international course “Introduction to Geriatric Psychiatry” for junior psychiatrists and general practitioners.

After 1990 was member in the Board of Romanian Association of Psychiatry and from 2003 is member in the Honorary Board.

Between 1998-2002, Dr. Tataru was member in the Board of Association of European Psychiatrist and now is chair of re-launched Geriatric Psychiatry Section of AEP. From 2003 she is also member in EC of Old Age Psychiatry Section of World Psychiatry Association.

Dr. Tataru works tirelessly to develop psychogeriatric services internationally and especially in Romania. One of her primary objectives is to lobby for the development of appropriate care for the elderly in Romania, including nursing care and specialized psychogeriatrics. She is especially motivated to play an active role in improving the quality of old age psychiatry in the Eastern European Countries.  During WPA Congress in Cairo in September 2005, I was elected as Co-chair of Old Age Psychiatry section of WPA.

Dr. Tataru was re-elected to the IPA Board of Directors in 2005. Dr. Tataru can be reached at nicoleta_tataru@hotmail.com.

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