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TITLE: Professor, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Greece, Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

         ·         MD:     University of Athens Medical School (1993) (Medicine)

         ·         PhD:    University of Athens Medical School (1998) (Physiology-Respiratory Critical Care)

         ·         Post-doctoral Training:  Universite de Marseille/Aix en Provance (1998)

                                                            McGill University, Montreal Canada (2001-2003)

CURRENT POSITION:

         ·         Director, 3rd Department of Critical Care medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evgeneidion University Hospital, Athens Greece

         ·         Consultant Respiratory Physician, Department of Medicine, Laikon Hospital, Athens, Greece

         ·         Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2015-current)

FORMER UNIVERSITY/CLINICAL POSITIONS:

Lecturer (2003-2004), Assistant Professor (2004-2008), Associate Professor (2008-2014), Professor (2014-2017), 1st Department of Critical Care (& Pulmonary Unit), University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece.

 

DISTINCTIONS-OFFICER POSISIONS

  • Member, National Council for Research & Technology (NCRT, ΕΣΕΤ), Ministry of Research & Development, Greece (2004-7)
  • Respiratory 2000 International Young Investigators Award. Schering Plough Research Institute
  • Chair, Long Term Planning Committee European Respiratory Society, Respiratory Intensive Care assembly (2010-12)
  • Co-chair, Task Force on HERMES (Harmonized Education in Respiratory Medicine) European Respiratory Society, Respiratory Intensive Care (2019-2011).
  • Group chair, Acute Critical Care Group, European Respiratory Society (2010-2016)
  • Program Committee Member, American Thoracic Society, Assembly on Critical Care (2003-2008)
  • Planning Committee Member American Thoracic Society, Assembly on Critical Care 2006-7
  • Secretary (Special & General), Hellenic Thoracic Society, Greece (2011-2017)

Honours-Fellowships

International:

  • European Respiratory Society Research Fellowship 1997
  • Human Frontier Science Program Short Term Research Fellowship 1998
  • Meakins-Christie Fellowship, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2001

National:

  • Scholar, State Scholarship Foundation, (IKY) Greece 2000
  • Scholar Alexander Onassis Foundation, Lichnestein 2001
  • Propondis Foundation Research Fellow 2002, Greece
  • Lilian Voudouri Foundation Research Fellow 2003, Greece

 

SCIENTIFIC ASSIGNMENTS

Associate editor: Intensive Care Medicine (2013)

Editorial board member:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (official journal of the American thoracic Society, ranks 1st in the category Respiratory/Critical Care by Thompson ISI (2003-2006)
  • Intensive Care Medicine (official journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, ranks 1st in the category Critical Care (2006-2012)
  • International Journal of COPD (2016-current)

 

Reviewer in Journals:

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Circulation, FASEB Journal, Intensive Care Medicine, European Respiratory Journal, Journal of Physiology (London), Thorax, Journal of Applied Physiology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine, Chest, Critical Care, Respiration, Critical Care Medicine, Sports Medicine, Trends in Pharmacological sciences, International journal of COPD, Scandinavian Journal of Sports and Exercise, Sleep medicine, Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Respiratory Research, Anesthesiology, PLOS one, The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology (IJBCB), BioMed Research International, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, Annals of Critical Care, BMC Pulmonary Medicine, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Canadian Respiratory Journal, Journal of biological regulators and homeostatic agents, Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology

 

Grant-Fellowship application reviewer:

    • European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).
    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
    • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
    • The Dutch Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
    • Romanian Ministry of Education
    • INSERM France
    • European Respiratory Society Fellowships reviewer (2010-current)

Scientific advisor-expert:

  • Post-graduate course organizer-chair (full day). American Thoracic Society International Meeting San Diego, 2009.
  • Expert-Presenter, International Consensus Conference in Intensive Care Medicine: Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation, Budapest 2005.
  • Juror, International Consensus Conference in Intensive Care Medicine: Adrenal Insufficiency in Critically ill patients, Florence 2008.
  • Juror, International Consensus Conference in Intensive Care Medicine: Therapeutic Hypothermia: to cool or not to cool, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2009.

[The International Consensus Conferences in Intensive Care Medicine were co-organized by the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM, USA), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), and the Société de Réanimation de langue française (SRFL) with the aim of producing consensus papers on hot scientific topics, and experts were invited either as experts-presenters or jurors]

 

Session Chair

  1. Invited facilitator (Thematic Poster), American Thoracic Society International Meeting, Toronto, 2000.
  2. Invited facilitator (Thematic Poster), American Thoracic Society International Meeting,  2001.
  3. Invited facilitator (Thematic Poster), American Thoracic Society International Meeting 2002.
  4. Invited facilitator (Thematic Poster), American Thoracic Society International Meeting, San Diego, 2005
  5. Invited facilitator (Thematic Poster), American Thoracic Society International Meeting San Diego, 2006.
  6. Chair (Poster Discussion), European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Munich, 2006.
  7. Moderator, instructional course 11: ARDS, Critical Care, 2nd world congress thoracic imaging and diagnosis in chest disease, Valencia, 2009.
  8. Chairman, symposium, controversial issues in the intensive care unit, 8th Congress European Federation of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, 2009.
  9. Chair (E-communication), European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Vienna, 2009.
  10. Invited facilitator (Poster Discussion), American Thoracic Society International Meeting, San Diego, 2009
  11. Invited facilitator(Poster Discussion),American Thoracic Society International Meeting, New Orleans, 2009
  12. Chair (E-communication), European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Barcelona, 2010.
  13. Chair (Poster Discussion), European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Vienna, 2012.
  14. Chair (Postgraduate course)European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Barcelona, 2013
  15. Chair (Morning seminar)Complications of mechanical ventilation: tips and techniques, European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Munich, September, 2014.
  16. Chair (Symposium) Acute respiratory distress syndrome: the role of preventionEuropean Respiratory Society, annual congress, Munich, September, 2014
  17. Chair (Symposium): Oesophageal pressure monitoring in the mechanically ventilated patient, European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Munich, 2014
  18. Chair (Symposium): New tools for the early diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome European Respiratory Society, annual congress, London, 2016
  19. Invited Facilitator (Thematic poster): Dealing with the complexity of critically-ill patients European Respiratory Society, annual congress, London, 2016
  20. Chair (plenary lectures)Combined pulmonary emphysema & fibrosis, Difficult asthma: an orphan disease, WASOG (World Association for Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Disorders), International Conference on Sarcoidosis & Interstitial Lung Diseases, Heraklion, 2018

 

Invited lectures

  1. Ventilatory failure and the respiratory muscles. European School of Respiratory Medicine 1st Postgraduate Course, Madonna di Cambiglio, Italy, 1996
  2. Respiratory muscle fatigue in COPD patients. International Symposium on Critical Care Medicine 12th Annual Meeting A.P.I.C.E. 97, Trieste, 1997
  3. Respiratory monitoring. Postgraduate course jointly organised by European School of Respiratory Medicine and the Turkish Thoracic Society, Antalya, 1998
  4. Weaning from ventilators. Postgraduate course jointly organised by European School of Respiratory Medicine & the Turkish Thoracic Society, Antalya, 1998
  5. Respiratory muscle action and dysfunction. Postgraduate course jointly organised by European School of Respiratory Medicine and the Turkish Thoracic Society, Antalya, 1998
  6. Pathophysiologic determinants of weaning failure. Respiratory Pathophysiology Workshop, Vienna,1998
  7. Mechanical ventilation in ARDS. Second International Symposium in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Riyadh, 1999
  8. Pathophysiology of weaning failure. Second International Symposium in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Riyadh, 1999
  9. How should we correct PEEPi for expiratory muscle activity? Third Meeting of Turkish Thoracic society, Instabul, 1999
  10. Respiratory muscle fatigue. Third Meeting of Turkish Thoracic society, Instabul, April 1999
  11. Mechanical ventilation and skeletal muscles. 15th annual Congress, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Berlin, 2002.
  12. Difficult weaning: mechanisms 4th international workshop: Updates on respiratory high dependency care units, Florence, 2004
  13. Ventilator induced diaphragmatic dysfunction 4th international workshop: Updates on respiratory high dependency care units, Florence, 2004
  14. Immune response to resistive breathing. 24th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, 2004
  15. Pathophysiology of weaning failure. 24th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, 2004
  16. Patient-ventilator interaction. 15th Argentinian Congress of Intensive Care Medicine, Buenos Aires, 2004                                                             
  17. Ventilatory Failure: Novel concepts 15th Argentinian Congress of Intensive Care Medicine, Buenos Aires, 2004
  18. Ventilator induced diaphragmatic dysfunction. 15th Argentinian Congress of Intensive Care Medicine, Buenos Aires, 2004
  19. Skeletal muscle function in acute respiratory failure. 17th annual Congress, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Berlin, October 2004.
  20. Weaning: Inflammatory response. 25th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, March 2005
  21.  Controlled mechanical ventilation: respiratory muscle rest. International Consensus Conference in Intensive Care Medicine (ICC2005): Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation, Budapest, April 2005.
  22. Weaning: The failing respiratory muscles. 18th annual Congress, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam, September 2005.
  23. Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction: an overview. European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Copenhagen, September 2005
  24. Weaning from Invasive Ventilation. 5th International Conference on Management and Rehabilitation of Chronic Respiratory Failure (from ICU to home), Stressa, Italy, March 2006
  25. Advances in the pathophysiology of respiratory failure: (focusing on small fibers, Cytokines and HPA axis). 5th International Conference on Management and Rehabilitation of Chronic Respiratory Failure (from ICU to home), Stresa, Italy, March 2006
  26. Mechanical Ventilation in COPD patients. 9th annual congress, Turkish Thoracic Society, Antalya, April 2006.
  27.  Weaning: Respiratory muscles. 9th annual congress, Turkish Thoracic Society, Antalya, Turkye, April 19-23 2006.
  28. Pathophysiology of weaning failure including weaning predictors. European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Munich, September 2006
  29. Muscle weakness and detraining. 19th annual Congress, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Barcelona, 2006
  30. COPD as a systemic disease. National Congress of the Argentine Respiratory Society, Buenos Aires, Argentine, October 2006
  31. Oxidative stress and cytokines in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. 34thNational Congress of the Argentine Respiratory Society, Buenos Aires, Argentine, October 2006
  32. Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction. 34th National Congress of the Argentine Respiratory Society, Buenos Aires, Argentine, October 2006
  33. Patient-ventilator interaction. 34th National Congress of the Argentine Respiratory Society, Buenos Aires, Argentine, October 2006
  34. Respiratory muscle function and weaning 20th annual Congress, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Berlin, 2007
  35. Diaphragm function and patient-ventilator interaction, Maquette, Solna Sweden, December 2007
  36. Mechanical ventilation from intensive care to long term ventilation.  Vienna, February 2008.
  37. The importance of respiratory muscles during mechanical ventilation. IV National course on mechanical ventilation (Ventobarna), Barcelona Spain, November 2008.
  38. Presentation of a clinical case on NAVA ventilation. IV National course on mechanical ventilation (Ventobarna), Barcelona Spain, November 2008.
  39. Presentation of a clinical case on difficult weaning. IV National course on mechanical ventilation (Ventobarna), Barcelona Spain, November 2008.
  40. Dyssynchronies and ineffective efforts in mechanically ventilated patients. Critical Care Center, Hospital de Sabadell, Parc Tauli University institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, November 2008
  41. The immune response to resistive breathing. Research Foundation, Parc Tauli University institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, November 2008.
  42. Should we rest the respiratory muscles when weaning fails? Postgraduate course, American Thoracic Society International Meetings San Diego, May 2009.
  43. Respiratory muscle dysfunction and inspiratory muscle training. American Thoracic Society International Meetings San Diego, May 2009
  44.  Wasted efforts during mechanical ventilation: why do they happen, how to detect them, what to do. Meet the professor seminar. American Thoracic Society International Meetings San Diego, May 2009
  45.  Advances and controversies in mechanical ventilation. 8th Congress European Federation of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, May 2009
  46. Therapy and management of ARDS. 2nd world congress thoracic imaging and diagnosis in chest disease, Valencia, 2009
  47. Understanding patient-ventilator interaction using the ventilator waveforms (meet the professor seminar)European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Vienna, 2009
  48. Difficult weaning of cardiovascular origin. Intensive Care Forum Cyprus, 2010.
  49. Understanding mechanisms of critical illness: skeletal and respiratory muscle dysfunction European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Barcelona, 2010
  50. The septic diaphragm ERS school course, Rhodes, October 2010
  51. COPD is a multicomponent disease: Diaphragm function, inflammation and other components. 3rd International Respiratory School, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2010
  52. Ventilator induced diaphragmatic dysfunction. 22nd SMART (Simposio Mostra Anestesia Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva) Milano, May 2011
  53. Pathophysiology of weaning failure. 22nd SMART (Simposio Mostra Anestesia Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva) Milano, May 2011.
  54. What have we learnt from COPD megatrials that could change clinical practice? May Pulmology Days, Teslic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011
  55. Are pulmonologists ready for the prime-time? European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Munich, September 2011
  56. Ventilator Induced Diaphragmatic Dysfunction. Meetingpoint 2012, Nigmengen, Holland, 2012
  57. Resistive Breathing causes Acute Lung Injury. Meetingpoint 2012, Nigmengen, Holland, 2012
  58. Lessons from COPD mega-trials National Pulmonary Congress, Ochrid, FYROM September 2012
  59. ICU-acquired-weakness: an overview of the problem European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Vienna, 2012
  60. Can resistive-breathing injure the lung? European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Barcelona, 2013
  61. Ventilator Induced Diaphragmatic DysfunctionEuropean Respiratory Society, annual congress, Barcelona, 2013
  62. Acute Interstitial pneumonia 25nd SMART (Simposio Mostra Anestesia Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva) Milano, 2014.
  63. Control of breathing. V National course on mechanical ventilation (Ventobarna), Barcelona, 2015.
  64. Respiratory system response to resistive breathing. Meakins-Christie Laboratories Beer seminar, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2015.
  65. Mechanical Ventilation: a friend and a foe? (meet the professor seminar) European Respiratory Society, annual congress, Amsterdam, 2015.
  66. Lung hyperinflation during COPD exacerbations: mechanisms and implications for treatment. Breathing 2016: COPD edition (organized by Novartis), Athens, Greece, 2016