Daniela Filipescu, MD, PhD, DESA, FESAIC is a cardiac anaesthesiologist, Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (AIC) Medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy and chief of the Cardiac AIC Department II at the Emergency Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Bucharest, Romania.

Professor Daniela Filipescu is currently the Secretary of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists and is chairing the Scientific Committee of the Romanian Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (SRATI) National Congress and a national multidisciplinary group for the implementation of Patient Blood Management in Romania.

Professor Filipescu was awarded the Honorary membership of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and of the Israel Society of Anesthesiologists.