Georgios Andrikopoulos
Valeria Caso
Hanne Krarup Christensen
Charlotte Cordonnier
George N. Dalekos
Martin Dichgans
Urs Fisher
Miquel Gallofré Lopez
Nikolaos Gatselis
Athanasios Giannoukas
Eleni Korompoki
Nikolaos Liasis
Konstantinos Makaritsis
Miltiadis Matsagkas
Patrik Michel
Emilia Michou
Milija Mijajlovic
Haralampos Milionis
George Ntaios
Panagiotis Papanagiotou
Vasileios Papavasileiou
Francesca Romanna Pezzella
Maria Politi
Timolaos Rizos
Christos Rountas
Paola Santalucia
Christos Savopoulos
Paraskevi Savvari
Peter Schellinger
Thorsten Steiner
Daniel Strbian
Turgut Tatlisumak
Stylianos Tzeis
Bart Van der Worp
Sofia Vassilopoulou
Konstantinos VemmosDr George Andrikopoulos obtained his medical diploma from the Medical School of Athens University (1990) and his basic training as a Cardiologist at Hippokration Hospital in Athens (1999). As a research fellow of the European Society of Cardiology he was trained on cardiovascular genetics at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, UK (2000) and as a Clinical Research Fellow at Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, UK (1999). He received his PhD at Cardiovascular genetics from the University of Athens (2004).
He is president of the Institute for the Study and Education on Thrombosis and Antithrombotic Therapy (2016), member of the board and founding member of the Hellenic Cardiovascular Research society (2007) and special scientific advisor of the board of the Hellenic Heart Foundation. Regarding his research activities he has published 124 manuscripts cited at Pubmed and a total of more than 300 papers. He was National coordinator of the EuroHeart project and member of the board for WP5 (2007-2009), National coordinator of the CHOB project of the European Heart Network (2004-2006), Principal investigator of the GEMIG, HELIOS, RHYTHMOS, TARGET, MANAGE-AF, PHAETHON, and other studies and co-principal investigator of the multicentre, international, SPICE study.
He works at Henry Dunant Hospital as a director of the 1st department of Cardiology and director of the department of Electrophysiology and Pacing.
Valeria Caso, is a stroke neurologist at the University of Perugia Stroke Unit, Italy and has been recently certified in the role of associate professor in Neurology.
She is visiting professor in the University of Belgrade.
She is president of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO).
She is currently working for an European Stroke Project “ESO-EAST” “Enhancing and Accelerating Stroke Treatment” which aims to establish a 5-year collaboration with selected physicians from Eastern countries, in order to optimise and implement Stroke Care best practices in these countries and share know-how.
She has authored and co-authored more than 200 published papers and book-chapters.
She has been involved in 20 multicentre trials serving in various positions including steering committees. She is currently actively involved in international research projects on cervical artery dissections, heart and brain, intracerebral haemorrhage, and acute stroke treatment. She has made primary interest the treatment and prevention of stroke in women and working on stroke guidelines in women
Hanne Christensen was MD in 1995, PhD in 2002, and DMSci in 2007 from Copenhagen University. She was board certified as Neurologist in 2007, and has worked as senior consultant Neurologist from 2008 in Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen. In 2015 she was appointed full Professor of Neurology with Special Focus on Stroke by Copenhagen University. She has published 101 Medline-indexed papers, 3 text book chapters, and has an H-index of 29.
Charlotte Cordonnier is a neurologist specialised in stroke medicine with a PhD thesis in Neurosciences. Appointed as Professor of Neurology at the Lille University (France) in 2012, she is the head of the department of Neurology & Stroke centre of the Lille university Hospital.
She was trained in Lille by Prof. Didier Leys. Her research interests are intracerebral haemorrhages (including microbleeds) both in the setting of stroke and dementia, acute management of stroke, and stroke specificities in women. She is the director of the Lille Haemorrhagic Stroke research program inside the INSERM U1171.
She has been a member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2015 and has been elected as vice-president of the European Stroke Organisation in May 2016.
Urs Fischer is Professor for Acute Neurology and Stroke at the Department of Neurology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Unit (CTU), University of Bern. He studied in Bern, London, San Francisco and Lomé and graduated in 2000. He trained as a neurologist in Bern. In 2008/2009 he performed a master of science by research in Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford. In 2014 he became an associate professor and in 2015 he was elected as Professor for Acute Neurology and Stroke at the University of Bern. He is the Co-Chair of the Stroke Center Bern and Head of the Neurological Emergency Team. Furthermore he is the Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Unit at the University of Bern.
Urs Fischer is a clinical researcher and his main research interest involves diagnosis, management, treatment and outcome of patients with acute neurological diseases, especially of patients with acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. He is participating in multiple preventive, diagnostic and acute treatment trials and stroke registries. He is Co-PI of the SWITCH and SWIFT DIRECT study and PI of the ELAN study.
Urs Fischer is active in National and European Stroke Societies: he is Secretary General of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO). He performed the ESO ESMINT EAN SAFE survey on stroke treatment in Europe. Together with Prof. Jan Gralla he founded the ESO ESMINT ESNR stroke winter school, which will be held for the fifth time in Bern in February 2018.
Dr. Miquel Gallofré is a neurologist with wide experience in management of health institutions and healthcare planning. He was appointed Medical Director at Vall d’Hebron hospital and since 2004 he has been Director of the Stroke Program, a Catalan Health Department Master Plan that focuses on all stages of stroke care at a region-wide level. He got his PhD at the University of Barcelona with a research work based on the Catalan Stroke Audits and has co-authored several papers related to stroke care organisation and evaluation.
With the collaboration of hospital stroke professionals he had a leading role in the implementation of the Catalan Acute Stroke Network. He was pivotal to the design and implementation of the Stroke Reperfusion Therapies Registry of Catalonia (SONIIA), a population-based and government-mandated registry that includes prospective and externally monitored data from all stroke patients treated with reperfusion therapies in Catalonia. Furthermore, he had a leading role in the development of the TeleStroke Network of Catalonia, which currently includes 12 Community Hospitals, and the Telestroke Registry (TICAT).
The Catalan Stroke Clinical and Patient&Carers Guidelines , published in 2005, were produced with his support and have been the basis of 4 Stroke Audit editions in Catalonia, undertaken every other year since 2006. He has also promoted specific territory-based rehabilitation programmes for stroke patients: the intensive rehabilitation programme and the home care support, in strong relation to the Catalan Stroke Support Organisations. He contributed to the creation of the Catalan Stroke Foundation, and is member of its board. This organisation joined the Stroke Alliance For Europe (SAFE) in 2008 with which he has been involved to in different occasions.
Under his direction of the Stroke Programme, several national stroke campaigns have been promoted aiming to raise knowledge of stroke at a general population level and to report on the devastating effects of stroke among patients and carers.
M.Sc., M.D., PhD, FEBVS, born in Larissa, Greece.
- Professor of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Greece
- Founder & Chairman, Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Larissa, Greece
- President of the European Venous Forum (2017-2018)
- President of the Balkan Venous Forum (2016-2018)
- Founding member and Chairman of Institute of Vascular Diseases (IVD) Greece
(2010-today)
- Organisation of the Interstate Joint MSc Programme in Vascular Ultrasound at the
University of Thessaly in collaboration with the University of Genoa (2015-today)
- Organization of Laboratories: 3
- Chairman of Advisory Committee in the organization of LIVE Symposium
- Participation in Clinical Protocols & Research Programmes as Principal Investigator: 13
- Publications in scientific journals: 206 (Scopus by HEAL LINK last search 13/04/2017), Citations: 2892, Self-citations: 448, H-index: 29
- Doctoral Theses Supervisor: 9 (4 completed)
- Prizes- Awards - Scholarships: 21
- Book editing: 6
- Book chapters: 37 (in 15 books: 10 in English & 27 Greek books)
Collaborator in carotid trials:
1. Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis and Risk of Stroke ACSRS
2. ACST2 Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Trial 2
Dr Eleni Korompoki graduated from the Medical School of Athens in 2002. She is a Board Certified Internist with expertise in hypertension and stroke. She was awarded a PhD for her work on heart and brain connection in essential hypertension at the University of Athens. She has over 10 years of clinical experience in Stroke Medicine being an active member of the multidisciplinary stroke team at the Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens and at Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust in London. Since 2005 she has taking part as a co-investigator in several clinical trials in the field of stroke. She has been working for more than 6 years as a post-doctoral researcher in the field of stroke medicine at the University of Athens (2011-2014) and at Imperial College London (2014-2017). Currently she serves as an Academic Consultant at the 1st Department of Neurology, University of Athens, in Greece with clinical, research and educational activities. She is a founding member of the Hellenic Stroke Organization and an active member of the World Stroke Organization, European Stroke Organization, European Society of Hypertension and Hellenic Society of Hypertension taking part on collaborative research projects and in educational and research activities. She is author of more than 35 publications in peer reviewed journals (PubMed/ISI Web/Scopus: “Koroboki E” or “Korompoki E”, Scopus:402, h index:13) and of more than 80 poster/oral presentations at International Congresses. Her research interests are secondary stroke prevention, stroke epidemiology, intracerebral hemorrhage and hypertension.
Medical Physician – Radiologist-Angiologist Colonel (R.T.)
Former Chief of the Vascular Department and Vascular Laboratory and Ultrasound Department of the General Air force Hospital (251 G.H.A.)
Scientific Director of Affidea Greece
Chief of Affidea Athens and Chief of Vascular Ultrasound Department
Vice President of Hellenic Society of Angiology
Date of birth: June 20, 1959
Place of birth: Agios Athanasios, Pella – Greece
Office number: 30 21 06 91 16 68
Mobile phone: 30 69 32 46 13 07
Address: 28, Adrianeiou St. – Athens – Greece
E-mail: nikos.liasis@affidea.com
1978 – 1984: Medical School of Thessaloniki University
1984 – 1985: Trained in biochemical and pathologic clinics of the General Air Force Hospital for one year as well as in the Emergency Room
1984: Post graduate program of the Air Force Medicine Center
1985 – 1988: Chief of the 15th Battle Wing in Souda – Chania
1986: Trainer in the school of Rescue and Marine Survival of the Air Force Team
1988 – 1991: Specialization of radiology imaging in the General Air Force Hospital (G. A. H.) of Athens
1991 – 1992: Continued specialization in the General Hospital of Athens “Georgios Gennimatas”
1992: Attained the title of Radiologist
1993: Post graduate program of Color Doppler Ultrasound and pathology of Vascular Diseases of Saint Giovanni Di Dio Firenze in Italy
1993 – 1994: Assistant to the Chief of the Vascular Department of 251 General Air Force Hospital
1994: Post graduate program of vascular diseases in Angiology and Diagnosis of Vascular Diseases in Saint Antonio Hospital in Utrecht as well as the University Hospital Academics in Holland
1995 – 2006: Chief of the Ultrasound and Vascular Department of 251 General Air Force Hospital (G.A.H.)
1996: Participated in post graduated Educational Program of Ultrasound Institute and Educational Research of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital of Philadelphia
2013: Ph.D. of the Vascular Surgery Clinic of “Laiko” Hospital of the University Hospital of Athens titled: “The Use of Speckle Reduction Imaging in Characterizing Carotid Plaque (S.R.I)”
1999 up to date: Chief Director of the Vascular and General Ultrasound Diagnostic Center
2006 up to date: Scientific Manager of the Affidea – Member of Medical Advisory Board Europe
Participated as speaker/chairperson or president in 55 Greek congresses and 160 International congresses
Invited speaker at universities abroad and in international and European congresses
Member of the Hellenic Society of Radiology
Member of the Academic Radiologists
Member of the Hellenic Society of Vascular Surgery
Member of the Hellenic Society of Phlebology
Member of the Hellenic Society of Angiology
Member of the Hellenic Society of Ultrasound
Founding Member of the Hellenic Society of Lemphology
Member of the International Union of Angiology
Member of the American Venous Forum (A.V.F.)
Member of the European Venous Forum (E.V.F.)
Member of the European Society of Radiology (ECR/ESR)
Konstantinos P. Makaritsis serves as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Thessaly and practices Medicine at the Department of Medicine at the Larissa University Hospital, Greece. After completing successfully his experimental PhD thesis which compared the hemodynamic effects of counterpulsation devices to those of a centrifugal blood pump in acute heart failure, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. where he received his postgraduate training in cardiovascular medicine during a two-year research fellowship at the Hypertension and Atherosclerosis Section at the Department of Medicine of the Boston University School of Medicine next to Prof. H. Gavras where he investigated the role of sympathetic nervous system on arterial hypertension.
His research interest focuses on arterial hypertension and, in particular, on salt-induced hypertension in subtotally nephrectomized animals. In addition, he performs basic research on ApoE knockout mice focusing on the mechanisms of atherosclerosis. He has been supervising several PhD students. He participates in several observational and randomized stroke and cardiovascular studies.
After his MD degree from Basel University, Patrik Michel has done his postgraduate training in South Africa, Boston, and Lausanne, and is now professor at the University of Lausanne and Head Physician of the Stroke Center in the Neurosciences Department of the Lausanne University Hospital. He is also oversees the neurological inpatient unit, the neurological emergency consultations, the therapeutic education and the clinical stroke research teams.
His research interests involve clinical stroke syndromes, acute stroke management, CT-based perfusion and arterial imaging, and stroke prognosis. He has founded and directs the Acute STroke Registry and Analysis of Lausanne (ASTRAL). He is participating as investigator or steering committee member in multiple preventive, diagnostic and treatment trials and several stroke registries.
He is actively involved in the Swiss Stroke Society, the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) and its annual conference, and the World Stroke Organisation. He gives lectures on multiple aspects of stroke at the University of Lausanne, at national and international conferences, and the European Master’s Programme for Stroke Medicine. He is on the editorial board of Stroke, the European Stroke Journal and the International Journal of Stroke. He has published multiple articles and book chapters on stroke syndromes, neuroradiological topics, and stroke management. He is married, has three children and is fluent in several languages.
Emilia Michou, PhD, CertMRCSLT is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Gastrointestinal Sciences within the School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester. In the recent years she received personal awards (Hellenic State Scholarships’ Foundation for her PhD under the supervision of Professor Shaheen Hamdy (2007-2010), Stepping stones award Fellowship for postdoctoral years) and funding from a number of sources including Parkinson’s UK, NIHR etc. Alongside with research, she teaches and supervises graduates and postgraduates in the field of deglutition and its disorders, and continues to practice as a speech and language therapist. At present, she focuses into unravelling the underlying mechanisms of plasticity and compensation for swallowing difficulties in stroke and neurodegenerative disease models by combining various neuroimaging (i.e. fMRI, MRS, NIRS), neurostimulation (TMS) techniques and different physiological measurements. The current mainstream of work also focuses on treatment solutions employing neurostimulation and compensatory approaches on swallowing.
Dr. Milija Mijajlovic, MD, PhD is Ass. Professor of Neurology at School of Medicine University of Belgrade, Serbia. He is working as Board Certified Neurology Specialist, Neuroangiology expert and Head of the Neurosonology Unit at the Department for Cerebrovascular Disorders of the Neurology Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia in Belgrade. Dr. Mijajlovic is a Research Associate of the Ministry of Science and Education of Serbia. He received his Masters Degree in Neurology (Stroke) and PhD title in Neurology from School of Medicine University of Belgrade. He was trained at the Department of Neurology University of Muenster, at Neurology Clinic of the TU Dresden, at Stroke Unit of the Sackler Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, at Stroke Unit of the Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, at the Neurology Department of the University hospital in Amines in France and Hertie Institute for clinical brain research in Tuebingen, Germany. His research is focused on stroke, neuroangiology, neurosonology, neurodegenerative diseases and headaches/pain. Dr Mijajlovic is a member of the Executive Committee of the Neurosonology Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology as well as Neurosonology and Stroke Subspecialist Panels of the European Academy of Neurology. He is also member of the Teaching course Committee of the European Academy of Neurology. Dr. Mijajlovic is Senior Editor of the Clinical Case Reports Journal and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine from which he received distinguished reviewer award in 2014. Dr. Mijajlovic serve as invited reviewer for more than 20 peer reviewed journals. He is author of more than 100 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, invited speaker at more than 50 international and local conferences, and coauthor of 18 books and book chapters.
Dr Haralampos Milionis was born in 1968 in Ioannina, Greece. He serves currently as Professor of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Ioannina, Greece. He graduated from the same School of Medicine in 1991 and received his PhD in 1999. His research studies and training were reinforced during his sabbaticals in the Department of Molecular Biology and Clinical Biochemistry in the Royal Free Hospital, UCL, London, UK in 1999 and in the Cerebrovascular Unit of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland in 2011. He is an active clinician in the Department of Internal Medicine, a Consultant in the Outpatient Lipid Clinic and directs the Outpatient Unit for Cardiovascular Risk Factor Modification for Children and Adolescents of the University Hospital of Ioannina and a Faculty member of the Atherothrombosis Research Centre of the University of Ioannina. He is an active member of the Hellenic and the European Atherosclerosis Societies and a fellow of the Hellenic and the European Stroke Organizations. His research field focuses in the pathophysiology of atherothrombosis, the clinical and epidemiological study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and the secondary prevention of stroke and stroke prognosis. He has been participating in several observational clinical studies and randomized clinical trials. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and has been serving as a reviewer and a member of the Editorial Board of national and international journals.
George Ntaios serves as Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Thessaly and practices Medicine at the Department of Medicine at the Larissa University Hospital, Greece. He received his stroke training during a stroke research fellowship at the CHUV (Lausanne, Switzerland) next to Prof. Patrik Michel and during the European Master Course in Stroke Medicine (Danube University, Austria) which he attended with the support of scholarships by the European Stroke Organization and the Hellenic Society of Atherosclerosis. In addition, he attended the ESO stroke summer schools in Barcelona and Lausanne.
He has been active in several committees of the European Stroke Organization and is currently involved in the development of the ESO Guidelines. He serves as a member of the editorial board of the European Stroke Journal and the scientific committee of the European Stroke Organization Conference. He serves also as the general secretary of the Hellenic Stroke Organization.
His main research interest focuses on stroke prevention and prognosis and, since 2014, he has established and maintains the prospective Larissa Stroke Registry (LASTRO). He participates in several observational and randomized studies of acute stroke management and stroke prevention as steering committee member, national coordinator or principal investigator.
Panagiotis Papanagiotou is since 2012 Director of the Dept. for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at Hospitals Bremen-Mitte/Bremen-Ost in Germany. Previously he was co-director of the Department for Neuroradiology at Saarland University Hospital. He is visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University in UK. In 2014 he became an Associate Professor at Saarland University in Germany.
Panagiotis Papanagiotou is a pioneer in new techniques of endovascular stroke treatment with publications in Circulation, JACC, Stroke and Lancet Neurology. He has performed a series of studies in this area and has conducted many clinical trials. He was contributed significantly to the introduction of first Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) worldwide. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 published papers and book-chapters. Under his lead the dept. for Neuroradiology in Bremen performs more than 600 neurovascular procedures annually, with ca. 200 thrombectomies. He performed >1000 endovascular acute stroke procedures.
Personal Information
Surname: Papavasileiou
Name: Vasileios
Father’s name: George
Date of birth: 07th of June 1978
Place of birth: Pialeia (Municipality of Pyli, Perfecture of Trikala, Greece)
Citizenship: Greek
Family status: Married, two children
Personal address: 17 Cragg Road, LS184NT, Horsforth, Leeds, UK
Phone: +44 113 392 6848
Mobile phone: +44 755 314 8518
E-mail: vpapavasileiou@gmail.com & v.papavasileiou@nhs.net
Summary (quick reference)
Dr. Maria Politi graduated from the Medical School of Thessaly University (2001) and obtained her training as a Radiologist and Neuroradiologist at University Hospital of Saarland, Germany (2010). She was trained on Neuroimaging as a clinical Research Fellow in German Cancer Center at University of Heidelberg, Germany (2006). She received her PhD at fMRI from the University of Saarland (2014). Since 2012 she serves as a Consultant at the department of Neuroradiology in Bremen, Germany and is a specialist in endovascular stroke treatment with clinical, research and educational activities. Her main research interest focus on neuro-endovascular procedures and she has been taking part as a co- investigator in several clinical trials in the field of stroke medicine.
Timolaos Rizos is board certified neurologist, neurointensivist and emergency physician. He is working as a consultant at the department of neurology, University of Heidelberg. He is specialized in stroke medicine and was trained under supervision of Prof Hacke. With a particular focus on cardiac disease and oral anticoagulation he works clinically and scientifically in the field of acute stroke treatment and secondary prophylaxis after ischemic stroke and ICH. In different positions (i.e. national coordinator, principal investigator, steering committees, endpoint review committees), he participates in several national and international observational and randomized controlled studies of acute stroke management and stroke prevention and serves as an ad hoc reviewer of several scientific journals. He was involved in the development of recommendations for mechanical thrombectomy by the Hellenic Stroke Organization and is an active member of several national and international neurology- and stroke related organizations, including ESO and WSO.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Ph.D.: TITLE: "Comparison of color Doppler US, CT angiography, GD-enhanced MR angiography, and digital substraction angiography for renal artery stenosis in suspected renovascular hypertension". Radiology Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, 19/07/2007. Professor I. V. Fezoulidis.
PUBLICATIONS: The publications are in Medline.
EDUCATION
RESIDENCY IN RADIOLOGY: i) Radiology Department of Chania General Hospital, Chania Greece (27/3/1995 - 12/8/1996)
ii) Radiology Department of Ippokratio Hospital, Thessaloniki Greece (12/8/1996-28/05 2000)
MEDICAL DEGREE: admitted on September 1985 through Panhellenic examinations. Graduation date: 12 07 1992, Medical School, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
• AS A RESIDENT: MRI, Department of Neuroradiology, Medical University Erlangen- Nuernberg, Germany, Erlangen (17/10/1999 – 05/04/2000)
MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY (CIRSE)
MEMBER OF THE GREEK SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
MEMBER OF THE GREEK MEDICAL SOCIETY
REFERENCES
Prof. I. V. Fezoulidis, Radiology Department, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly, e-mail: fezoulid@otenet.gr
Paola Santalucia is a stroke neurologist as well as a cardiologist at the Foundation Maggiore Hospital Policlinico in Milan, Italy. She is actively involved in clinical and research activities.
Currently, she is a member of the executive committee of the Italian Stroke Organization (ISO) and chair of the ISO working group on stroke in women. She is a member of Board of Directors of the European Stroke Organization (ESO), member of the ESO Public Relation, and Chairperson of the ESO Simulation Education Committees.
She is a certified Simulation Instructor in medicine and for the past decade, she has overseen and taught over 150 education courses in cardio-and cerebrovascular disease to nursing staffs, residents and clinicians. These courses have specifically dealt with reducing medical errors and improving upon both technical and non- technical skills in physicians. She is the vice-president of the Italian Society of Simulation in Medicine (SIMMED).
Regarding her research to-date, her primary interests have included the management of acute stroke treatment and gender differences in cardio and cerebrovascular disease, with a focus upon women. She is Vice-President of ALT (Association against Thrombosis and Cardiovascular Disease, onlus, Italy) since 2013 and very actively involved in all the activities of promotion of cardiovascular health and education for the population.
Associate Prof of Internal Medicine, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA University Hospital, 1st Dept of Internal Medicine
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
Participation in 193 Medical Workshops
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM IN INTERNAL MEDICINE
- Teaching professor during 4 academic years 2004-2008 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the fields of hypertension, stroke and obesity.
- Visiting professor during academic year 2008-2009 at Varna Medical University in Bulgaria in the fields of hypertension and stroke.
- Honorary Clinical Lecturer, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Disease Prevention. Academic period 11/2011- 11/2012.
PhD POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM
- Principle Supervisor of 3 PhD candidates
- Supervisor of 9 PhD candidates
- Member of the PhD Accreditation Committee: at present 11
ACADEMIC WRITING ACTIVITIES
- Participating Medical Author in 32 Medical Textbooks including translating activities
- Reviewer in 23 International (Executive reviewer in 1 and member of the Editorial Board in 2 of them) and 3 National Medical Journals
MEDICAL CONGRESSES
- Member of the Organising Committee of 31 Medical Congresses
- Member of the Scientific Committee of 11 Medical Congresses
- Invited Chairman in 19 Round Tables
- 147 Lectures in Medical Congresses after personal invitation
CLINICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
- 24 Multinational Clinical Projects
- 17 out of 24 have successfully been completed
MEDICAL PAPERS
- 536 full medical papers or abstracts or lectures
- 211 full papers, 119 of them PubMed or Scopus Indexed, another 4 pending publication after the approval and 1 submitted, 9 in International Proceedings
- 151 medical abstracts in International Journals PubMed or Scopus Indexed, another
- 9 of them have been distinctively awarded
- 17 out of 24 have successfully been completed
Paraskevi Savvari serves as a Medical Advisor of Internal Medicine at Pfizer Greece. She is a board-certified Internist and practices medicine in private.
Paraskevi graduated with a scholarship from the Athens University Medical School. She was trained and specialized as an internist at the University Clinic of Alexandra Hospital and earned a PhD degree in Histology / Embryology from the University of Athens. After her specialization, she worked as a consultant at a large private hospital in Athens and then as a research associate in the Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Athens. At the same time she is practicing internal medicine in private.
Paraskevi joined Pfizer in 2014 as a medical advisor for apixaban. During that period she delivered many presentations at public hospitals and private cardiologists, and had also an active role in supporting and conducting non-interventional studies, as well as in the design and implementation of digital applications.
She has been involved in basic research in the field of carotid molecular atherosclerosis, has published research papers in international and Greek journals, and has also participated as a guest speaker in Greek conferences.
She is a board member of the Hellenic Stroke Organization and a fellow member of the European Stroke Organization.
PROF. DR. MED. PETER D. SCHELLINGER
| ADDRESS: |
business: Chairman Depts. of Neurology and Neurogeriatry Hans-Nolte-Straße 1 Johannes Wesling Medical Center Minden University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum D-32429 Minden +49-571-7903501 (Telefon),+49-0571-790293500 (FAX) Peter.Schellinger@muehlenkreiskliniken.de (e-mail) |
| DATE OF BIRTH: | 7. August 1967, Würzburg, Germany |
| BACKGROUND: | |
| 07-2016 | Director, University Professor and Chairman, Depts of Neurology and Neurogeriatry, John Wesling Medical Center, University Clinic of the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) |
| 02-2013 | FAHA (Fellow of the American Heart Organization) |
| 2013-2015 | Executive Committee, German Society of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Medicine |
| Since 07/2010 | Professor and Chairman, Depts of Neurology and Neurogeriatry, John Wesling Medical Center Minden |
| 2009-2016 | Board of Directors, ESO |
| 2008 | FESO (Fellow of the European Stroke Organization) |
| 02/2007 | Professor (apl Prof.) Medical Faculty, University Clinic at Erlangen |
| Since 05/2006 | Vice Chairman Dept. of Neurology, University Clinic at Erlangen |
| 10/2005 | Professor (apl Prof.) Medical Faculty, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg |
| 05/2004 – 04/2006 | Associate Professor (Priv.-Doz.) Dept. of Neurology, University Clinic at Heidelberg |
| 05/2003 – 04/2004 | Invited Visiting Fellow National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, USA |
| 12/2002-01/2003 | PhD and Assistant Professor for Neurology an der Medical Faculty, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg Topic: "Role of Novel MRI Techniques in the diagnosis of acute stroke " (Habilitation) |
| 1994-2002 | Internship, Residency, Fellowship in Neurology Depts. of Neurology, Neuroradiology and Psychiatry, University Clinic at Heidelberg |
| 07/1997: | Medical Doctorate at the Technical Univ. in Aachen (RWTH Aachen) Topic: „Role of CT and MRI in the diagnosis of brain metastases “ Magna cum laude |
| 1987-1994: | Medical School RWTH Aachen |
| CERTIFIED SUBSPECIALTIES:/td> |
• Stroke • Critical Care • Geriatry |
| RESEARCH-FOCUS: |
• Diagnosis and Therapy of acute IS and ICH • Logistics and Emergency Treatment in Neurological Diseases • Secondary Prophylaxis and Neuroprotection after cerebral ischemia and ICH • Pathophysiology and Hemodynamics of peri-hemorrhagic areas after ICH • Neurological Critical Care |
| AFFILIATIONS: |
DGN: German Society of Neurology DGNB: German Society for Neuroscientific Expert Witness Reporting DGNI: German Society of Neurological Critical Care and Emergency Medicine DGKN: German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology AAN: American Academy of Neurology ASA: American Stroke Association, Scientific Programm committee ISC, FAHA DSG: German Stroke Society ESO: European Stroke Organization, Board of Directors, FESO WSO: World Stroke Organization, Board of Directors for WSA |
| REVIEWER-BOARDS: | a.o. Lancet, Lancet Neurology, Brain, Circulation, Stroke, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Neurocritical Care, Critical Care Medicine, Annals of Neurology, Nervenarzt, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, European Neurology, American Journal of Neuroradiology, American Journal of Radiology, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. |
| CLINICAL TRIAL EXPERIENCE: |
All major acute stroke and ICH trials and most secondary prophylaxis trials for stroke since 1994 in Heidelberg, Erlangen, Minden Selection: ECASS 1-3, DIAS 1-3, DEDAS, NOVO-7, FAST, SENTIS, FASTFLO, FLO 24, IMPACT 1, IMPACT 24, PRIISM, ICTUS, ICTUS-L, NEST 2-3, TRA 2P, MATCH, PROFESS, SPARCL, SPACE 1-2, Abbest, ASP, EPO, AXIS, STICH 2, FIND AF, MACSI, CLOTBUSTER, SOCRATES, RESPECT ESUS, RESPECT CVT, CHARM, REMEDY, ACTION-2, RESPECT CVT… Steering Committee member for: TUCSON, ECASS 4-EXTEND, CLOTBUST-ER |
| EDITORIAL BOARDS /COMMITTEES: |
European Neurology 2006-2010 Stroke 2007-2013 Korean Stroke Journal 2012- |
Cumulative Impact: : >1000 Points
Hirsch Factor: 50 (ISI WoS), June 2017
Number Publications (>250)
Number Citations
Peter D. Schellinger, MD, PhD, FESO, FAHA Minden, May 4th 2017
Professor and Chairman
Dr. Thorsten Steiner is Professor of Neurology and head of the Department of Neurology at Frankfurt-Höchst Hospital and the Stroke Unit at Hofheim Hospital in Germany. Dr. Steiner holds the title of an Honorary Professor with special focus on Medical Treatment of Stroke at Copenhagen University and is a scientific co-worker at the Department of Neurology at Heidelberg University Hospital. Dr. Steiner holds a title as a Master of Medical Education from Bern University, Switzerland.
He received his medical training at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, the Tanga Regional Medical Centre in Tanzania, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He completed his specialty training in neurology, emergency medicine, and critical care neurology at the University of Heidelberg Hospital.
Dr. Steiner’s main research interests are related to intracerebral haemorrhage and coagulation, stroke intensive care, invasive monitoring, and treatment strategies of elevated intracranial pressure. He has contributed to various clinical stroke trials on thrombolysis and neuroprotectants in ischaemic stroke and hemostatics in intracerebral haemorrhage. Dr. Steiner is highly involved in the preparation of guidelines ESO, the German Neurological Society, and the German Stroke Society.
Dr. Steiner has published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Neurology, Stroke, Neurology, Annals of Neurology, the European Stroke Journal of the Journal of Neurosurgery, Cerebrovascular Diseases, and others the Journal of Neurology, European Neurology, and the American Journal of Neuroradiology.
Dr. Steiner is chairman of the European Stroke Organization (ESO) guidelines board, and member of the ESO board of directors. He is associated editor of the International Journal of Stroke.
Associate Professor Daniel Strbian, MD, PhD, MSc (Stroke Med), FESO, undertook his pre-graduate studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava and at the George-August University in Göttingen. He trained in neurology at the Helsinki University Hospital, where he was board certified in neurology, obtained PhD degree, and became an associate professor in neurology. Thereafter he undertook an ESO-endorsed master programme at the Danube University in Krems and obtained the degree of Master of Science in Stroke Medicine. He is a fellow of the ESO. Daniel Strbian has been practicing at the Helsinki University Hospital since 2002, selected as one of the top hospitals in treatment of patients with cerebrovascular disorders worldwide. Strbian's practice specializes in the care of critically ill neurological patients. He is responsible for the emergency neurological services, which includes neurological emergency and intensive care unit. He serves as a consultant for intensive care units of other subspecialties seeking neurological consultation. Strbian's interests also include end-of-life issues. Strbian’s major research area includes acute management of cerebrovascular disorders: thrombolysis and/or thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke, blood-brain barrier disruption following ischemic stroke, complications of acute revascularization treatment, and management of intracerebral hemorrhage. Another topic of interest is prognostic stroke research. Strbian is an author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, he served in the editorial board of Current Vascular Pharmacology, and as a section editor in the Stroke journal (Illustrative teaching cases). He now serves as a section editor in Stroke for the Emerging therapies.
Turgut Tatlisumak is professor of neurology at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has long served as the vice chairman and director of stroke center at the Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital. He trained in neurology at the same department and completed a research fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He holds degrees in teaching and health administration. He is the founding chairman of Finnish National Telestroke Network. Turgut Tatlisumak’s research field is experimental and clinical stroke. He has edited or contributed to more than 10 books and published over 300 articles. He served as assistant editor and member of editorial board of Stroke, was the founding chief editor of Case Reports in Neurology, and member of editorial board in several other journals including Stroke. He served as a peer reviewer to over 60 journals over 300 times, several research funding bodies, and to many prestigious universities for academic promotions. Dr Tatlisumak has been involved in over 50 multicenter trials serving at various positions including chairmanship of steering committees. He supervised 12 PhD, 10 master’s, and 35 MD theses. He has received several teaching and research awards. Dr Tatlisumak has served on executive committee of the Finnish Neurological Society and the Nordic Stroke Society. He is past treasurer of the European Stroke Organization. He is a fellow of AHA and ESO.
Dr Stelios Tzeis qualified from the National and Kapodistrian University, School of Medicine in Athens, Greece, and trained as a cardiologist in Athens. He completed his PhD thesis in the National and Kapodistrian University, School of Medicine in Athens. From 2007 to 2009 he performed his training fellowship in electrophysiology and cardiac pacing in Deutsches Herzzentrum Muenchen, in Munich, Germany with a two-year grant awarded by the European Heart Rhythm Association. He has been awarded the European Certification of professional excellence in the field of invasive cardiac electrophysiology and cardiac pacing & ICDs.
He has been working as a consultant electrophysiologist at Henry Dunant Hospital Center, in Athens since 2009. His current practice involves all aspects of electrophysiology and management of cardiac arrhythmias including catheter ablation, implantation of pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators and also cardiac resynchronisation therapy for heart failure patients. In addition to his clinical work he has served as a member of the EHRA Certification Committee for Cardiac Pacing (2009-2016) and a member of the ESC Training and Research Grant Committee (2011-2012), while he is currently the vice-chairperson of the EHRA Certification Committee. He has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Bart van der Worp is a neurologist with a special interest in cerebrovascular diseases at the University Medical Center in Utrecht , the Netherlands. He has been (co-)Chief Investigator of the randomised clinical trials HAMLET, PAIS, COOLIST, and VAST and is (co-)Chief Investigator of PRECIOUS ( www.precious-trial.eu), EuroHYP-1 ( www.eurohyp1.eu), APACHE-AF ( www.apache-af.nl), and - starting shortly - MR ASAP. He is a member of the recently founded Dutch CONTRAST consortium which aims to identify and test new treatments for patients with acute ischaemic stroke or intracerebral haemorrhage, a.o. via a range of follow-up trials to MR CLEAN. Three years of preclinical work in the 1990s have aroused his interest in the translation of findings from animal stroke studies to clinical trials, which he aims to improve together with other members of CAMARADES ( www.dcn.ed.ac.uk/camarades) and Multi-PART ( www.dcn.ed.ac.uk/multipart). Bart is President Elect of ESO.
Sophia Vassilopoulou was born in 1971 in Athens. She graduated from Athens Medical School in 1996 and she became a Neurologist in 2003.She had her PhD in The Innate immunity of Abacterial Meningitis in 2005 and since then she is working in Eginition Hospital in the Stroke ward. In2009 she graduated from” European Master in Stroke Medicine” in Donau- Universitat, Krems, the ESO’s Master Diploma. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology since 2014in National and Kapodistrean University of Athens.
She’s a mother of two lovely boys.
Dr Konstantinos Vemmos is an Internist, with special interest in the prevention and treatment of cerebrovascular disease since 1989 (Stroke Medicine).
He has served in the department of Clinical Therapeutics of the University of Athens at the hospital "Alexandra" from 1978 to 2012 as consultant and, later on, as a Director in the National Health System. During the years 1991-1992 he trained as a Clinical Stroke Research Fellow in the department of Neurology (Stroke Service) of New England Medical Center, TUFTS University. In 1992 he was organized the first Acute Stroke Unit in Greece in the department of Clinical Therapeutics of the University of Athens (Alexandra Hospital) and he was director from 1992 until 2012.
He is a fellow member of the European Stroke Organization, the World Stroke Organization and a founding member of the "Hellenic Cardiovascular Research Society". Since, 2014 he is the elected president of the Hellenic Stroke Association. Dr Vemmos is the co-editor of the journal "HEART VESSELS & BRAIN" and co-organizer of the annual Conference "Heart, Vessels & Stroke". He is a founding member of the Institute for the study and education in Thrombosis and Antithrombotic therapy (IMETHA). Since 2015, he is elective president of the Hellenic Stroke Organization. He has published more than 140 scientific articles in international literature with more than 3,000 citations. He has participated in international conferences with more than 200 abstracts and has given the last year’s more than 250 lectures on stroke fields. The main topics of his scientific research are: epidemiology and prevention of stroke, acute phase of stroke management, stroke risk factors, prognosis of stroke, etc. He is also a reviewer in several international medical journals and has authored chapters in scientific books as well as a large number of articles in magazines and newspapers.
George N. Dalekos serves as full Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Thessaly and, since 2008 he is the Director and Head of the Department of Medicine at the Larissa University Hospital, Greece where he also practices full-time Medicine. Also, he is the Head of the Research Lab of the Department of Medicine at the University of Thessaly where among other projects, basic research is performed on animal-models of atherosclerosis.
Since 2009, he is the chair of the organizing committee of the annual International Congress of Internal Medicine that regularly includes sessions about stroke and cerebrovascular diseases and in which many ESO members have participated as invited speakers.
He has been supervising numerous PhD students and post-doctoral fellows and coordinates or participates in several observational and randomized studies. He has been serving as member of the Board of Directors of several national and international medical societies and has been an author of several national and international Guidelines.