Dr. Irina Ianache is an infectious diseases physician, mainly focused on the HIV field,
actively involved in evaluating and treating persons living with HIV managing their ARV
treatment and their associated comorbidities, opportunistic infections, bacterial infections,
neoplasia, viral hepatitis or STIs co-infections.
Since the beginning of her career, she was interested in patients from key populations and
she was involved in many research studies focused on HIV and key populations (PWIDs,
MSM, women, homeless, etc.). She was also part of the team that published more papers on
these subjects (opportunistic infections, neuro-psychiatric complications, malignancies,
mother to child transmission, viral hepatitis, bacterial infections, cascade of care, mpox,
COVID-19, etc.). Her PhD project defended in 2018 was also focused on HIV in patients with
high-risk behaviors. The title of her thesis was “Parenteral infections in injecting drug users
from Romania), together with her team describing the HIV epidemic in iv drug users from
Romania. They also published some of the first reports related to the high burden of HIV
infected PWIDs that Romania had to face during that period.
As Assistant Lecturer at “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, she
is also involved in training 6 th year medical students, coordinating seminars and courses
during their infectious disease stages.