Stelios Parissopoulos is a nurse and social anthropologist who holds a full-time lecturer’s position in the Department of Nursing at the University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. Mr. Parissopoulos has 23 years of combined clinical nursing and academic experience. He lived and worked in England from 1996 to 2009 as a staff nurse and later as a senior staff nurse (intensive care) at teaching hospitals in the English National Health Service (N.H.S.). He studied nursing at the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens (1994) and was awarded a BSc (Hons) in Social Anthropology from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (2009). Mr. Parissopoulos was also awarded a Master's of Medical Science in Clinical Nursing at the University of Sheffield (2000) and a BSc in Professional Practice—Intensive Care Pathway at the University of Brighton, where he specialized in intensive care. He was awarded a PhD by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens (2022). His doctoral study is an anthropological ethnography on “Nursing Praxis in Intensive Care Unit. Clinical Decision Making and Power Relations”. He has publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, as well as citations in international journals. Mr. Parissopoulos teaches "Sociology of Health and Illness” at the undergraduate level and also participates in the teaching of other nursing subjects at the degree and master's level.