Dr. Georgeta Vaidean teaches epidemiology and evidence-based medicine and mentors medical students in research methods within the research scholarship course.
The focus of Vaidean’s career has been cardiovascular prevention and evidence-based medicine. She started her career by leading a preventive cardiology office and a community-based cardiovascular prevention program in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
She has held academic appointments at several institutions, teaching medical and pharmacy students, mentoring MPH and Ph.D. students, conducting cardiovascular epidemiology studies, and designing clinical research studies. In addition, Vaidean has experience overseeing clinical trials management in clinical research settings and delivering patient counseling for behavioral changes and lifestyle medicine. She maintains an active publication record, including peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters on preventive cardiology.