Professor of Pediatrics – Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Patras
Dionysios Chryssis is a professor of-Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Patras and the head of the Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic at the University of Patras’s Department of Pediatrics at the University Hospitalin Rio, which is one of the best-organized pediatric endocrinology clinics in Greece, staffed by four physicians with excellent training in pediatric endocrinology. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Patras, where he also completed his residency in General Pediatrics. He then trained in Pediatric Endocrinology at the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked for one year as a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist. He subsequently earned his Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, where he also worked as a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist. His research interests span the entire spectrum of pediatric endocrinology, with a particular focus on longitudinal growth, thyroid disorders, calcium metabolism, and the genetic etiology of endocrine disorders. He has published laboratory and clinical research in highly prestigious scientific journals.
