European Stroke Organisation
www.eso-stroke.org
Department of Medicine and Research
Laboratory of Internal Medicine,
University Of Medical Thessaly School,
Larissa, Greece
Hellenic Stroke Organization
www.stroke.gr
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.
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.
Konstantinos Vemmos is an internist and a stroke physician and served between 1978 and 2012 as Consultant/Director at the Department of Clinical Therapeutics of the University of Athens at the Alexandra hospital. In 1992 he organized and led the first Acute Stroke Unit in Greece and established and maintained for 20 years the prospective Athens Stroke Registry which gave rise to >100 original stroke publications.
He received his stroke training during a two-year stroke research fellowship at the Stroke Service of the New England Medical Center at the Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. next to Prof. Louis Caplan.
His main research interest focuses on stroke epidemiology and prevention, acute phase of stroke management, stroke risk factors and stroke prognosis. He has coordinated or participated in numerous observational and randomized studies of acute stroke management and stroke prevention as steering committee member, national coordinator or principal investigator. He has been serving as member of the Board of Directors of several national medical societies.
He has trained and been the mentor for many stroke fellows who now hold leading clinical and academic posts in Greece and abroad. He currently serves as the President of the Hellenic Stroke Organization.
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.