Emmanouil Symvoulakis is an Associate Professor of Primary Healthcare, University of Crete, Greece, MD, PhD General Practitioner, Director of the Labor Clinic, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Naples (FEDERICO II), Italy, in 1999. He is qualified in General Practice/ Family Medicine. He defended his PhD thesis at the Medical School of the University of Crete in 2007. He is the author of several original papers published in international journals. He is currently involved in national and international research projects at the Clinic of Social and Family Medicine of the University of Crete.