Professional Activities:

Professional Experience

2 / 1980 - 12 / 1981	Military doctor in charge  of  a  battalion  of the  Greek  Army (National Service)
4 / 1981 -  12 / 1981	Resident in Medicine,  Department  of Medicine  403  Military Hospital, Kozani, Greece  (National Service)
2 / 1982 -  8 / 1983	Compulsory G. P., Service of the Greek Provinces
8 / 1983 -  8 / 1985	Resident in Medicine,  Department of Medicine, University  of Ioannina, G.Hatzikosta Hospital,Ioannina - Greece
9 / 1985 -  11 / 1988	Registrar of Internal Medicine, G.Hatzikosta Hospital, Ioannina - Greece
12 / 1988 - 10 / 1992	Lecturer of Internal Medicine,  University  of Ioannina, Medical School, Ioannina - Greece
11 / 1992 - 4 / 1997	Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina, Medical School,Ioannina - Greece
5 / 1993 - 4 / 1994	Sabbatical leave in Institute of Lipids and Atherosclerosis Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler School of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
1/1996	Head of the Lipid Clinic of University Hospital, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
5 / 1997 - 4 / 2001	Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina, Medical School, Ioannina - Greece
4 / 2001	Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina,  Medical School, Ioannina – Greece
11/2003	Director of the Second Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, University of Ioannina
2/2004	Head of the Obesity Clinic, University Hospital, University of Ioannina
5/12-5/15	Head of Department of Internal Medicine of the University Hospital of Ioannina
9/14 for 3 years	Director of Division of Nephrology, University Hospital of Ioannina

Societies

• E.D.T.A., European Renal Association
• Hellenic  Society of Nephrology
• Greek Association of the Study of Hypertension
• Hellenic Society of Lipidiology and Atherosclerosis
• European Hypertension Society
• International Society of Hypertension
• European Atherosclerosis Society
• American Heart Association
• Fellow of Royal Society of Health (FRSH)
• European Association of Internal Medicine
• (European Federation of Internal Medicine)
• Hellenic Society of Internal Medicine
• Hellenic Society of Northwestern Greece
• Hellenic Society for Renal Nutrition and Metabolism
• Hellenic Society of Medical Sciences
• Hellenic Society of Endocrinology
• Hellenic Society of Diabetes
• Fellow of American College of Angiology (FACA)
• Hellenic Society of Atherosclerosis (President)
• Fellow of the International Society of Atherosclerosis (FISA)
• Fellow of the American Society of Angiology (President of the Greek chapter)
• Fellow of the Association ofClinical Scientists
• Hellenic Society of Hypertension
• Hypertension Speciality (From the European Hypertension Society)
• Vice President of the Institute of Study, Research and Training for Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Diseases

  Editorial Activities

1. Editor of the "Current Medical Research and Opinion"
2. Member of the Editorial board of the "Current Vascular Pharmacology"
3. Co - editor in chief of the ΄΄Hellenic Medical Journal΄΄
4. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics΄΄
5. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄Journal of the European Citizen’s Quality of Life΄΄ [E.C.QUA.L]
6. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄Journal of the American College of Angiology΄΄
7. Section Editor of Emerging Vascular risk factors of the ‘’Vascular Disease Prevention’’
8. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄Journal of Medical Sciences Research
9. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄ European Journal of Pharmacology
10. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄The Open Clinical Chemistry Journal΄΄
11. Associate Editor of the editorial board of the ΄΄Archives of Medical Science΄΄
12. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄Liver Disease Review Letters΄΄
13. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Sciences΄΄
14. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄World Journal of Diabetes (WJD)΄΄
15. Member of the editorial board of the ΄΄Educational Research and Reviews΄΄
16. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄Medical Practice and Reviews΄΄
17. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄World Journal of Hepatology΄΄ (WJH)
18. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄World Journal of Cardiology΄΄
19. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology and Therapeutics΄΄
20. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄Hellenic J Nutr Diet΄΄
21. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄Cardiovascular Continuum Journal΄΄
22. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄Journal of Geriatric Cardiology΄΄ (JGC)
23. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄World Journal of Pharmacology (WJP)
24. Member of the Editorial board of the ΄΄World Journal of Hypertension΄΄ (WJH)
25. Member of the Editorial board of the ‘’Expert Opinion on Drug Safety’’
26. Member of the Editorial board of the ‘’World Journal of Nephrology’’ (WJN)
27. Member of the Editorial Board of the ‘’Case Reports in Vascular Medicine’’
28. Member of the Editorial Board of the ‘’World Journal of Experimental Medicine (WJEM)
29. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄Scientific World Journal΄΄
30. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄The Open Gene Therapy Journal΄΄
31. Assistant Editor of the ΄΄Discovery Biology and Medicine΄΄
32. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄Open Journal of Cardiology΄΄
33. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄World Journal of Clinical Case Conference (WJCCC)
34. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄World Journal of Clinical Cases΄΄(WJCC)
35. Member of the Editorial Board of the ΄΄International Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism΄΄
36. Member of the Editorial Board of ΄΄Journal of Cardiology and Τherapy΄΄ (JCT)
37. Member of the Editorial Board of the publishing platform F1000Research
38. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal ΄΄Pharmacology & Drug Designing΄΄
39. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal ΄΄Journal of Nephrology Research΄΄ (JNR)

Reviewer In International Medical Journals

• European Journal of Internal Medicine
• European Journal of Clinical Investigation
• Veterinary Research
• Platelets
• European Journal of Endocrinology
• Cardiovascular Research
• European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
• Drugs
• Pediatric Research
• Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
• Peritoneal Dialysis International
• Current Medical Research and Opinion
• Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy
• Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation
• Journal of Royal Society for the promotion of Health
• International Journal of Diabetes and Metabolism
• Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
• International Society of Cardiology
• Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Drug and Aging
• American Journal of Kidney Diseases
• Journal of the American College of Angiology
• Diabetic Medicine
• Clinical Drug Investigation
• Current Medicinal Chemistry
• Medicinal Research Reviews
• Journal of the Pancreas
• Clinica Chimica Acta
• Clinical Chemistry
• Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
• Future Cardiology
• European Journal of Pharmacology
• Nephron
• International Journal of Nanomedicine
• Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders
• Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism
• Kidney and Blood Pressure Research
• Drug Safety
• Journal of Internal Medicine
• Kidney International
• Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology
• Pharmacological reports (formerly Polish Journal of Pharmacology)
• Archives of Medical Science
• Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
• Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
• Jama
• Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
• Pediatric Nephrology
• The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
• American Journal of Hypetension
• American Journal of Cardiology
• Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
• Clinical Endocrinology
• Neuromuscular Disorders
• European Journal of Haematology
• Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences
• Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
• Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
• International Journal of Clinical Practice
• Diabetologia
• British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
• Current Neuropharmacology
• Future Lipidology
• Recent Patents on Cardiovascular Drug Discovery
• Obesity Reviews
• Central European Journal of Medicine (CEJMed)
• Cardiovascular Diabetology
• Therapy
• Cardiology
• International Urology and Nephrology
• Current Drug Safety
• BMC Endocrine disorders
• Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism and Toxicology
• The Lancet
• Journal of Neurological Sciences
• Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
• Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
• Nature Reviews Endocrinology
• International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences
• The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal
• The Pharmacogenomics Journal
• Journal of Human Hypertension
• Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• BMC Medical Genetics
• The Open Clinical Chemistry Journal
• Journal of Diabetes
• Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
• Current Medical Research and Opinion (CMRO)
• World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology and Therapeutics (WJGPT)
• Lipids in Health and Disease
• Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)
• Hormone and Metabolic Research
• Expert review of Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation Plus
• European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
• World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Cardiovascular Therapeutics
• International Urology and Nephrology
• World Journal of Hypertension (WJH)
• World Journal of Experimental Medicine (WJEM)
• The Scientific World Journal
• Expert Opinion on Drug Safety
• World Journal of Nephrology (WJN)
• Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
• Nutrition Journal
• Journal of Cardiology and Therapy (JCT)

Member of Organizing Committees of Congresses

1. 4th International Symposium Advances on Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis and A Physicians’ Education Course on Clinical Management of Lipid Disorders (1995)
2. VIII International Symposium on Magnesium. International Society for Magnesium Research (1997)
3. 5th International Symposium & a Physicians' Education Course on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dyslipidaemias (1997)
4. XXVth Balkan Medical Week (1998)
5. Chairman of the Satelite Meeting on Secondary Dyslipidemias of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) 1999 symposium
6. European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) 1999 symposium (advisory  board)
7. 7th International Symposium on Hypertension in the Community. Tel Aviv – Israel           (International advisory board) (2000)
8. 6th International Symposium on Advances on Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis and 3rd Physicians' Education Course on Clinical Management of Lipid Disorders. Athens (2001)
9. The fetus as a patient. XVII International Course. (Honorary Local Committee) Ioannina (2001)
10. VIth Balkan Congress of medicine and dentistry for students and young doctors Ioannina, 1-3 November 2002 (Scientific Committee)
11. Andrology Days in Ioannina (Scientific Committee)
12. Free Radicals and Oxidative Stress: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pathophysiological Implications Ioannina, 26-29 June 2003, (Organizing Committee)
13. FEBS special meeting; 45th International Conference on the Bioscience of lipids, 45th ICBL May, 25-29 2004 Ioannina, Greece (Organizing Committee)
14. First Panellenic Congress of the Hellenic Society of Atherosclerosis Athens, 2-4 December 2004, [President of the Organizing Committee]