Prof. Sotirios Tsiodras

Sotirios Tsiodras is a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. He is the President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Greece, and the Chair of the National Committee of Public Health experts of Greece. He completed postgraduate training at Harvard Medical School in the USA, and he has been board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Professor Tsiodras also holds a master's degree in Medical Sciences from Harvard Medical School, and was a recipient of the Clinical Investigator Training Program fellowship conducted by Harvard Medical School and the MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, both in Boston, MA. He has a PhD in Medicine from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. He has been a member of the European CDC Advisory Forum since 2009, and is an Infectious Diseases Society of America fellow; he also serves as a board member for the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Study Group for Respiratory viruses. He has published more than 340 peer-reviewed papers and, so far, his work has received more than 18 000 citations from international journals. He is currently conducting clinical work and research work in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Attikon University Hospital and the National and Kapodistrian Athens University Medical School in Athens, Greece.