Ms. Elpis-Athina Vlachopapadopoulou is a pediatrician and endocrinologist specializing in pediatric endocrinology, Coordinating Director of the Endocrinology, Growth, and Development Unit at the “P. & A. Kyriakou,” where she has worked for the past 27 years, treating a large number of children with obesity. He graduated from the University of Athens School of Medicine and completed his residency in Pediatrics and Endocrinology—Pediatric Endocrinology in the United States.
Ms. Vlachopapadopoulou is an elected member (secretary) of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Society for Childhood and Adolescent Obesity, and also an elected member (secretary) of the Board of Directors of the European Childhood Obesity Group, serving two three-year terms from 1998 through 2025. She is a member of numerous committees of the ESPE and the Endocrine Society. She has authored 90 publications in international journals and 30 in Greek journals, as well as book chapters. She actively participates in international conferences, having given more than 400 presentations. She is the principal investigator on more than 10 Phase I–III research protocols focusing on treatment with weekly growth hormone, the treatment of incomplete osteogenesis, and severe obesity. She serves as a peer reviewer for international scientific journals and at international and Greek conferences.
Her main research interests focus on obesity, growth disorders, growth hormone deficiency, precocious puberty, and the long-term endocrine consequences following treatment for childhood cancers and bone marrow transplantation.
