Despina Briana
Briana Despina, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Pediatrics-Neonatology,
NICU, Third Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Despina Briana is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics-Neonatology at the 3rd Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She graduated from the Athens University Medical School with a degree “Excellent” and during her medical education she was gained scholarships for distinguished performance from the National Institute of Scholarships. Her doctoral thesis on “Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Perinatal Bone Metabolism”, has been awarded an Academic Prize for best Doctoral Theses for the years 2010-2012 by the Athens University Medical School.
Dr. Briana participated in funded national and international research protocols. She has published 95 articles in peer-reviewed PubMed journals, which have been cited more than 1700 times (h-index=22, total impact factor> 300) and contributed to ten book chapters in International and Greek books. She has participated with lectures/presentations in >100 International and >70 Greek Congresses. Research fields: biomarkers and metabolic hormones in intrauterine growth restriction/fetal macrosomia, potential molecular mechanisms underlying DOHaD, angiogenic factors in normal and abnormal fetal growth, prematurity and necrotizing enterocolitis, bioactive substances and metabolome of early human milk, neurodevelopment and twinning.
She is an Associate Editor for the “Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine”, she serves as a Reviewer for 50 PubMed journals and she is a member of the “International Foundation for Maternal Peri-conceptional and Peri-Neonatal Medicine.”
Five of her studies, presented at International and three of her studies presented in Greek Congresses, have been awarded the first prize, including the Gold Medal in the Academic Olympics of UENPS-Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies (3rd Congress of UENPS, Portugal, 2012).