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Καθ. Χρίστος Μαντζώρος

MD, DSc, PhD h.c. mult., Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director Human Nutrition Unit, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief, Endocrinology, VA Boston Healthcare System
Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD h.c. mult. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and adj. Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine.

He has also served as a Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

He currently serves as the Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Boston VA Healthcare System, where he created a leading academic division true to its tripartite mission and as the Director of Human Nutrition which he had created at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School.

He has performed groundbreaking research in several areas of nutrition and metabolism. As some indices of his success to date, Dr. Mantzoros has published more than 1000 scientific papers i.e. 745 publications under his name in Medline in addition to more than 216 publications under the collaborative Look Ahead Research Group and more than 303 chapters and reviews or editorials. His corpus has received more than 159,000 citations with an H-index of 152 and an i10 index of 597 (Google Scholar). Dr. Mantzoros has published as an editor two books (one on “Diabetes and Obesity” and one on “Nutrition and Metabolism” with more than two editions each).
He has applied for approximately 20 patents and has served as a board member, an advisor, or head of the scientific advisory boards of non-profit foundations as well as government and state agencies or commissions as well as for-profit private businesses and non-profit entities.
Based on his many seminal contributions to the respective scientific fields, Dr. Mantzoros has been ranked as number 1 in the world in leptin and/or adipokine research, number 2 in adiponectin research, and in the top 0.1% of experts on obesity and NASH on ExpertScape, which objectively ranks scientists and institutions by expertise in more than 27,000 biomedical topics and he has received several prestigious awards for his lifetime achievements.