Ms. P. Xekouki is an Associate Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Crete School of Medicine, Director of the Endocrinology Clinic at the University General Hospital of Heraklion (PAGNI), and Scientific Director of the PAGNI Diabetes Center. She is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Athens, where she completed her doctoral dissertation on the transplantation of Langerhans islets in diabetic rats. After completing her residency in Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, she went to the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. on a fellowship from the Hellenic Endocrinological Society, where, as a postdoctoral researcher, she specialized in neuroendocrine tumors —particularly tumors of the pituitary and adrenal glands—for six years, during which time she described the syndrome of combined pheochromocytomas/paragangliomas and pituitary tumors (3Pas) due to mutations in the electrical dehydrogenase (SDHx), which was included among the genetic causes of neuroendocrine pituitary tumors in the World Health Organization’s classification of endocrine tumors (WHO) in 2017 and 2022. She then took up a position as Clinical Lecturer at King’s College Hospital/King’s College London in London for four years, where she continued her research and clinical work. In 2018, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Endocrinology at the Medical School of the University of Crete, where she continues to serve today. She has published more than 73 scientific articles indexed in PubMed in high-impact scientific journals such as New England Endocrinology and Metabolism, Lancet, Oncogene, JCI Insights, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrine related Cance with 2,831 citations and an h-index of 26 in the Scopus database, and 3,870 citations with an h-index of 30 in the Google Scholar database. She has also contributed 10 book chapters to international medical textbooks, has delivered over 50 lectures as a guest speaker at international and Greek scientific conferences, and has received over 15 awards and honors for her research work, as well as funding from theResearch Fund Account of the University of Crete. She is supervising three ongoing doctoral dissertations and also serves on the three-member committees for other dissertations. She is a member of the European Society of Neuroendocrinology, the European Society of Endocrinology, and the Hellenic Society of Endocrinology. He serves on the editorial boards as deputy editor for international medical journals such as *Frontiers in Endocrinology* (Cancer Endocrinology section), *Endocrinology*, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Report, and Hormones Journal, and serves as a regular reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrine-Related Cancer, the European Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.
