Dr. Vaia Lampadiari is a Professor of Pathology and Endocrinology at the Second Teaching Department of Internal Medicine, Research Unit of the University of Athens, and Scientific Director of the Diabetes Center at the “Attikon” University General Hospital. In addition to diabetes mellitus, he specializes in metabolic disorders and obesity, and has completed further training at the University of Oxford’s Oxford Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford, UK, in lipid disorders and adipose tissue disorders (lipodystrophies). He is engaged in educational and academic work (teaching students, conducting research), while also treating patients across the entire spectrum of endocrinology and metabolism. In the field of cardiometabolic diseases in particular, he has been a pioneer by establishing, in collaboration with the Cardiology Clinic of Attikon University Hospital, the first interdepartmental cardiometabolic clinic in Greece, with a particular focus on the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the context of metabolic disorders. Her research output includes >185 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (average impact factor >5), h-Index (Google Scholar): 41, Citations (Google Scholar): 7,300, and 10 book chapters. He has supervised >10 doctoral dissertations and has given more than 250 invited talks. She has served as/is a Principal Investigator at >for 30 multicenter Phase II/III clinical trials in the field of metabolism.
