He graduated in 1972 from the Medical School of the University of Athens and subsequently completed his residency in internal medicine (1977), as well as in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (1981). In 1985, he served as a Senior Resident and Associate Director of the Endocrinology Clinic at the Hippocrates General Hospital of Athens, and from 1986 to the present, he has been Director of the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Athens Medical Center. His main areas of interest include diseases stemming from metabolic and nutritional disorders, and for the past 25 years he has been engaged in both research and clinical practice in this field. In the field of obesity, he was the first in Greece and among the first worldwide to foresee the devastating consequences of the disease on morbidity and mortality and to introduce the medical perspective on the disease in our country, since until then obesity had been considered merely a cosmetic problem. In 1989, he founded the Hellenic Medical Society for Obesity, serving as its president for six years. In 1991, he was selected by NATO, along with 19 other experts from around the world, to form a committee that established guidelines for the prevention and treatment of obesity. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Greece’s representative in Europe for the fight against childhood and adolescent obesity. He served as the public relations representative for the Athens Medical Association for 8 years and was president of the independent practitioners’ section of the Hellenic Endocrinology Society for 6 years. He was also a member of the editorial board of the medical journal “Contemporary Medical Information” and president of the Scientific Society of the Athens Medical Association for two years. He has authored numerous publications and received many honors and awards for his scientific work.
