SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE (2019)
Panos K Prassopoulos
 
I was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960 and I graduated from the Medical School, University of Athens (“Cum Laude”) in 1984. I was specialized in Radiology in the “NIMTS” military hospital and the “Areteion” University Hospital in Athens (1984- 1988). I completed my Ph.D. Thesis (“Anatomic variations in Bowel positioning”) at the Department of Radiology, University of Crete, in 1990. I have worked as a full- time attending radiologist for 32 years. I am married and father of two children.
CAREER
1/2018- today             Professor of Radiology and Chairman, Dept. of Radiology,
                                   Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA University Hospital

9/2002-12/2017

Professor of Radiology and Chairman, Dept. of Radiology, University Hospital of Alexandroupoli, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace

Director, Clinical-Laboratory Division, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace (3 terms)

9/2002- 9/2009

Chairman, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Alexandroupoli, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace

9/2002- 9/2009

Chairman, Department of Medical Physics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace

3/2010- 11/2013

Director of Medical Services, University Hospital of Alexandroupoli

9/1997- 8/2002

Ass. Professor of  Radiology, Dept. of  Radiology,    University
Hospital of Heraklion, Medical School, University of Crete.

9/2000

Fellow,         Department      of    Diagnostic      Radiology,     University Hospital Essen, Germany

7/1996-8/1997

Fellow,         Department  of      Radiology,     Beth    Israel-Diaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Μedical School, Boston, U.S.A.

7/1993-6/1996

Lecturer in Radiology, Dept. of Radiology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Medical School, University of Crete

11/1995

Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A.

1/1991-6/1993

Attending Radiologist, Dept. of Radiology, “Aghia Sofia” Children’s Hospital, Athens.

10/1992-4/1993

Fellow, Dept. of Radiology, MRI Unit, “Areteion” University Hospital, Athens

12/1988-9/1990

Attending Radiologist, Dept. of Radiology, CT Unit, Air Forces
General Hospital, Athens

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Review Journals
Cited in Index Medicus – (Pub Med)

 
187

Citations (Scopus, Google Books)

3734

H - index

31

Peer-Review international publications (non-cited)

35

Chapters in Medical Books:

14

Publications in National Journals

28

Scientific papers/exhibitions in International Congresses

158

Scientific papers/exhibitions in National Congresses

159

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Under-graduate level:

• Teaching of Radiology (professor in-charge) for 15 years at the Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace.  Four (4) Courses of full semester each: Radiology1, Radiology 2, Modern Imaging Modalities in Abdominal Diseases, Clinical Ultrasonography
• Teaching Radiology for 13 years at the Medical School, University of Crete. Two (2) Courses of full semester each: Radiology1, Radiology 2
• Teaching of Radiology (professor in-charge) 7 years at the Medical School, University of Crete. One Course of full semester:  Imaging Modalities in Abdominal Diseases

Post-graduate level:

• Instructor in four (4)  Master’s Degree Programs at the Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace: Hepatobiliary Surgery (7 years),  Health and Safety in the work environment  (5 years), Clinical Pharmacology (3 years), Clinical-Surgical Anatomy (1 year) 
• In-service training of residents in Radiology for 29 years at the Air Forces General Hospital, Athens, (2 years) “Agia Sofia” Children’s Hospital, Athens, (2 years), University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete (10 years), University Hospital of Alexandroupolis , Thrace (15 years).
• Director of the European School of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (School of ESGAR), 2015,2016,2017.

INVITED LECTURES

International Congresses-Scientific Meetings   
            (including RSNA, ECR, ESGAR,ESOR)

92

National Congresses-Scientific Meetings

96

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
SOCIETIES

• President of the Hellenic Society of Radiology 2016-2018

• President of the Balkan Society of Radiology (BSR) 2014-2016

• President of the Hellenic College of Radiology 2011-2014

• Honorary member of the Romanian Radiological Society

• Member of 8 International and 5 National Scientific Societies

COMMITTEES

• Member-at-large, Educational Committee, European Society of Radiology (ESR) 2015-today
• Executive  Committee  member,  European  Society  of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) 2009-today   
•   Member, Research Committee, European Society of Radiology (National Delegate), 2008-2014
• Member, Educational Committee, European Society of Oncologic Imaging, 2017
• Member, Educational Committee, European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR),1997- 2003
• Chairman, By-Laws Committee, European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR),2004- 2009
• Member ETAP subcommittee, European Society of Radiology (ESR) 2015-today

CONGRESSES / SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

• President of the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR), Athens 2017
• President   of   the   20th    Hellenic Congress of Radiology, Athens 2016
• President of the 14th Balkan Congress of Radiology(BCR), Thessaloniki 2016
• President of the 23rd Congress of the  Hellenic College of Radiology, Alexandroupoli 2017
• Organizer of the School of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) in Breast and Pelvic Imaging, Athens 2016
• Organizer of the European School of Radiology (ESOR) in Oncologic Imaging Thessaloniki 2016
• President of the 4th Hellenic Congress in Oncologic Imaging, Thessaloniki 2015
• Organizer of the European School of Radiology (ESOR) in Oncologic Imaging,  Athens 2013
• President of the Organizing Committee, 8th Balkan Congress of Radiology (BCR) , Alexandroupoli 2010
• Organizer of          the European  School of         Radiology        (ESOR) in Abdominal Imaging, Alexandroupoli  2008
• Member,   Program          Planning          Committee,     European        Congress         of Radiology(ECR)  for ECR 2008 and ECR 2009
• Member of the Scientific Committee of nine (9) Annual Meetings of the European Society of Gastrointestin al and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR), 2009-2017
• Member of the Organizing or Scientific Committee of 37 International and 25 National Congresses-Scientific Meetings
• Chairman  in 35 sessions in International and in 24 National Congresses-Scientific Meetings.

JOURNALS

• Member of the Editorial Board of European Radiology (Official Journal of the European Society of Radiology) 2013-today (PubMed – Index Medicus)
• Section Editor, Editorial Board, Annals of Gastroenterology, 2011-today  (PubMed – Index Medicus)
• Section Editor, Editorial Board, Hellenic Journal of Radiology
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Bulgarian Journal of Radiology
• Reviewer in 6 peer-review International Journals (Index Medicus), one on-line international publication and 3 National Journals

RESEARCH

• Investigator in 6 Research Grants
• Supervisor- councilor in 27 Ph.D. Theses