Journal of Allergy & Therapy

Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos

Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos
Associate Professor
University of Athens, Greece

Biography

Prof Panagiotakos is the Dean of School of Health Science & Education, at Harokopio University in Athens. He studied Mathematics at University of Patras, and performed his graduate studies in Statistics, Biostatistics at University of Athens. His PhD in Medicine (cardiovascular epidemiology) was performed at School of Medicine, University of Athens. Dr Panagiotakos has a CME Cert in Environmental Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Univ of London, UK), and has developed post-doctorate research in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Since 2013 he is Professor in Biostatistics – Epidemiology of Nutrition, at the Department of Nutrition Science - Dietetics, Harokopio University in Athens. In the past, he has served as a Lecturer at University of Portsmouth (UK), a senior Research Scientist at the First Cardiology Department, School of Medicine, University of Athens (Greece), in which he was involved in several epidemiological studies (CARDIO2000, ATTICA and GREECS), as well as Lecturer at the Department of Nutrition Science - Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens. From 2003 until now, Dr Panagiotakos also act as a visiting Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Athens, as well as at the Agricultural University of Athens, in post and pre-graduate programmes. His research interests include Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Risk modelling - risk analysis, Nutritional Epidemiology and Multivariate analysis. Dr Panagiotakos has published 3 books, 510+ papers with 9400+ citations (h-index = 46), as well as many other papers in national journals or Conference proceedings. He has given more than 140 invited lectures in 14 countries, in the field of CVD epidemiology, nutrition and lifestyle, as well as research methods in medical sciences. He has received 3 Young Investigators’ National and International Awards and 3 Scholarships.

Research Interest

CVD Epidemiology, CVD risk modelling and analysis, medical research methodology, as well as nutritional epidemiology.