Main duties and responsibilities At present, he is serving as an Associate Professor at the Nursing Department of the University of Thessaly. He has been a permanent Academic staff in the HMU for the last 14 years (2010 – 2023) starting from the lower academic level as a lecturer of Community Nursing (2010 – 2016), assistant professor of Primary and home-based Nursing Healthcare (2016 – 2020) and associate professor of Home-based Nursing Healthcare (2020 – 2023). 2021-2022, he was elected as the Head of Dept and as a Director of the MSc program titled: “Advanced Clinical Practices in Health Sciences”. As the Head of the Nursing Department, his duties and responsibilities were mainly administrative and oriented to specific tasks as follows: • As a Head of the Dept – participated in Senate Committees of the HMU and he was responsible to the Dean of the School of Health Sciences. • Teaching undergraduate students in specific courses: Community Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Family Nursing, Homecare Nursing. • Teaching postgraduate courses particularly “Social Gerontology” in the Master of Science (MSc) program entitled: “Management of Ageing and Chronic Diseases (GCN)” that is offered by distance (online) and implemented by the HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY, (2017-present). • Responsible for the quality of both undergraduate and postgraduate study programs. • Responsible for the accreditation of the postgraduate study program by the Hellenic Authority of Higher Education. Specifical