Dr. Athanasios Pitis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Peloponnese. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Peloponnese with a doctoral thesis entitled "Investigation of the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients". He has published papers in various journals and serves as a Specialist Palliative Care Nurse for the Palliative Care Unit "Jenny Karezi" of the School of Medicine at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests include social determinants of health, palliative care, oncology nursing, and quality of life.