Professor Emeritus Theodoros Alexandridis is a graduate of the University of Athens School of Medicine. He specialized in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. He holds a Ph.D. from the Medical School of the University of Patras. He completed four years of postgraduate training at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School from 1986 to 1990 on a fellowship from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, where he conducted research on the expression and action of insulin receptors and insulin-like growth factors.
He worked at the University Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Patras beginning in 1990 as a university faculty member and rose through all the ranks of the academic hierarchy. He served as director of the Endocrinology Department at the University Hospital of Patras from 2005 until his retirement in 2018.
Since 2018, he has been a Professor Emeritus at the University of Patras.
His research interests include diabetes mellitus, obesity, insulin secretion and action, gastrointestinal hormones, and metabolic surgery.
He is a Section Editor for the journal *Hormones* and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal *Obesity Surgery*.
Coordinator of the Diabetes Committee of the Hellenic Society of Internal Medicine (Ke.S.Y.) from 2017 to 2020.
Chair of the Ke.S.Y. Committee on Surgical Treatment of Obesity from 2016 to 2020.
