QUALIFICATIONS
- 09/1998- 07/2004 Degree (Ptychio) in Medicine, Hellenic Rebublic, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. Grade: “Excellent 8.96”
- 03/2005- 02/2006 Rural general practitioner at Sikorrachi, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- 10/2005- 02/2009 Doctorate- Thesis at Cardiology Department of Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- 08/05/2009- 03/01/2011 Trainee in internal medicine at General Hospital Asklipieion Voula, Greece
- 18/04/2011- 17/04/2015 Trainee in cardiology at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, Athens, Greece
- 08/2014 Certified in transthoracic echocardiography by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the European Society of Cardiology
- 06/2015 Successfully passed the European exams in General Cardiology by the European Society of Cardiology
- 27/07/2015 Successfully passed the national board exams in cardiology and acquired medical license in the specialty of cardiology in Greece
- 11/01/2016- 30/06/2017 Fellow in clinical and interventional electrophysiology in OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium
- 10/2016 Authorized medical license in the specialty of Cardiology in Belgium. INAMI 1-82074-92-730
- 07/2017 EHRA (European Heart Rhythm Association) certified electrophysiologist specialist Level 1
- 01/07/2017- 30/04/2019 Cardiologist- electrophysiologist in Erasme Hospital ULB (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
- 09/2018 EHRA certified electrophysiology specialist Level 2
- 01/05/2019- 01/05/2022 Cardiologist- electrophysiologist at Clinic Saint Jean, Brussels
SCHOLARSHIPS
- Scholarships and prizes of Good Standing from the Public Scholarships Foundation in Greece for the five of six academic years of Medical Studies
- 01/01/2016- 31/12/2016 Fellowship Grant in electrophysiology from the Hellenic Society of Cardiology
- Grants from the Onassis Foundation to participate in seminars- lectures during medical studies
- Grants from the European Heart Rhythm Association to participate at the EHRA congresses
PRIZES
- 2000- 2017 Five prizes for scientific work in panhellenic and international congresses.
- 06/2017 Best case presentation for the EHRA Young EP clinical cases session at EHRA Europace- Cardiostim 2017 Congress, Vienna
SCIENTIFIC AND CLINICAL ACTIVITIES
- 08/1999- 09/1999: Student fellow at the immunology and infectious diseases laboratory at Abramson Research Centre of the Children Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- 10/2005- 02/2009: Thesis “Study of the collagen type I metabolism peptides in chronic heart failure patients” at Cardiology Department of Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece.
- 2005 until now: Participated as a speaker at medical courses, multicenter trials, research projects and clinical studies at Cardiology Department of Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace, at Cardiology Department of Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, at Arrhytmia Unit of OLV Hospital in Aalst in Belgium, at the Cardiology Department of Erasme Hospital in Brussels and at the Cardiology department of the Clinic Saint Jean in Brussels, in Belgium
- Attending numerous medical congresses, presenting oral presentations (10), posters (42) and as invited speaker
- Publications in international journals (22) and writer of a book chapter at General Methods in Biomarker Research and their Applications ISBN 978-94-007-7740-8
- Extensive clinical experience in cardiac diseases, urgent and non-urgent, with special emphasis on arrhythmias and their treatment with simple and complex interventions (electrophysiological study, ablation of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, isolation of pulmonary veins, pacemaker and defibrillator implantation)
MEMBERSHIPS
- 2011 Greek Ambassador of the Club 35 of the European Echocardiography Association
- Member of the medical council of Bruxelles and Brabant Wallon
- Member of the Belgian Society of Cardiology
- Member of the Belgian Heart Rhythm Association
- Member of the European Society of Cardiology
- Member of the European Heart Rhythm Association
