MD, PhD Νεφρολόγος, «Νεφροντίδα» – Νεφρολογικό Κέντρο, Λευκωσία, Πρόεδρος Νεφρολογικής Εταιρείας Κύπρου

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

September 1990- July 1996: Graduated Medical Schoool, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece,

May 1999 – November 2003: Training in Nephrology

Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Veria and Organ Transplant Unit, Hippokration General

Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece

February 2004: Granted the specialty of Nephrology

June 2004-June 2005: Leicester General Hospital, UK (scholarship by the Hellenic Society of Nephrology)

Worked as Honorary Clinical and Research Fellow in Nephrology. A combination of clinical practice and research work on podocytes cultures, investigating the mechanisms of proteinuria in proteinuric disease

and the effect of statins on podocytes structure and intracellular functions.

February 2009: Granted the title of PhD of Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Thesis: Microalbuminuria & other early markers of cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic renal failure

May 2011: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK (Sponsored by the Cyprus Ministry of Health)

in order to gain experience of how Peritoneal Dialysis is organized and delivered in the UK. This led to the set-up and organization of the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit in Nicosia General Hospital.

 

July 2005- August 2016: Consultant Nephrologist, Nicosia General Hospital

September 2016- May 2022: Practicing Nephrology in the private sector (Apollonion Private Hospital and American Medical Center)

 

June 2022 – today: Practicing Nephrology in the private sector (Nefrontida- Nephrology Center, Nicosia)

 

SOCIETIES AND COMMITTEES:

1. President of the Cyprus Renal Association 2018-today
2. Member of the Cyprus Society of Nephrology, since 2009
3. Member of the European Dialysis Transplantation Society (EDTA), since 2001
4. Member of the Hellenic Society of Nephrology, since 1999

 

CYPRUS REPRESENTATIVE IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS

1. Cyprus Renal Registry Representative at the European Registry of the European Renal Association (2013-today)
2. Cyprus Representative at the European Kidney and Urine Proteomics Action (EuroKUP) FP7/2007-2013 (2009-2013)

 

CONTRIBUTION TO RESEARCH PROJECTS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE:

1. Molecular Medicine Research Center, University of Cyprus
2. Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
3. European Renal Association-Registry