Dr. Olga Tsachouridou is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases specialist, with experience in Epidemiology and Immunology of Infection, HIV, and nosocomial infections as research fields of interest and occupation. She received her MD from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; and her MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She earned her PhD degree with a thesis entitled "Immunological Response in the 23-valent pneumococcal Vaccine in HIV-1 infected patients". She is currently working as an internal medicine physician at AHEPA University Hospital.
Dr. Djordje S. Popovic is a gastroenterology resident at the Laiko General Hospital, where he was an internal medicine resident between 2018 and 2021. He received a Master of Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2022 and an MBBS from the University of Crete in 2015. He was a rural primary health-care physician at the Molaoi General Hospital between 2015 and 2016. His research interests include IBD, autoimmune liver disease, and gastrointestinal cancer.
Georgios Germanidis, MD, PhD, and FEBGH, is a full professor of gastroenterology and head of the Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit of the First Department of Internal Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He graduated from the medical school at the University of Athens in 1987 and was a postgraduate student at the Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokrateion Hospital, University of Athens (1987–1988). He served in the Greek military and was a postgraduate student at the immunology laboratory of the University of Ioannina (1987–1989). He completed his PhD studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005. Moreover, he was a resident of internal medicine at the general hospital of Thessaloniki G. Papanikolaou (1991–1995) and a resident in gastroenterology at Hospital Henri Mondor, Universite Paris XII. He received his specialty in gastroenterology in 1999. He was a staff gastroenterologist at the First Department of Medicine, Papageorgiou General Hospital (2000–2007), and the First Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA University Hospital (2007–2010). From 2010 to 2013, he was a lecturer of gastroenterology at the medical school at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests include liver biology, liver immunology, HBV, HCV clinical liver diseases, HCC, etc.
Prof. Theocharis Koufakis holds a medical degree from Aristotle University and a Ph.D. in the pathophysiology of complex diseases from the Medical School at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He completed his specialty training in Internal Medicine at the General Hospital of Larissa, Greece; and received post-graduate training in Diabetes at King’s College Hospital, London, UK, and Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a Greek Ministry of Health-certified diabetologist. At present, he is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he is engaged in clinical, research, and teaching work. His main research interests include diabetes mellitus and the effects of religious fasting on human health.
Prof. Dr. Kalliopi Kotsa received her Medical Degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1991; her MMedSci in Endocrinology from the University of Sheffield in 1996; and her Ph.D. in Diabetes from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2004. She specializes in Endocrinology at Thessaloniki’s Theagenio Hospital, Northern General Hospital Sheffield, and AHEPA Thessaloniki. Since 2000, she has been awarded the title of Endocrinology and has collaborated scientifically with the Department of Physical Education of the DUTH. and the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she was elected to the post of Lecturer in February 2010 and as assistant professor in 2013. From 2019, she has been an Associate Professor in Endocrinology–Diabetes at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; and from 2014 to the present, she has been the Head of the Department of Endocrinology–Diabetes Unit at AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. She is a member of the Endocrine Society USA, the European Society for Endocrinology (ESE), and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).