Speakers & Chairs
Nuran Akdemir
Professor, Hacettepe University FHS Nursing Department Ankara, TURKEY
Anastasia Antoniadou
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Athens University Medical School/ University General Hospital Attikon, GREECE
Carla Araújo
Trainee/ Portugese National Coordintator, Portuguese Institute of Oncology/ NIMI, PORTUGAL
Konstantinos Balampanis
M.D., Representative of the Young Internists Group in Greece, 2nd Department Internal Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Werner Bauer
Past EFIM President, SWITZERLAND
Photis Beris
Associate Professor of Hematology, Hematology Service, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Geneva University, SWITZERLAND
Haim Bitterman
Professor, Chief Physician, Clalit Health Services/ Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL
Kyriaki Boki
Dr., Sismanoglio Hospital, GREECE
Lenka Bosanska
Dr, EFIM Young Internists Assembly – Chair, EFIM Young Internists Subcommittee, GERMANY
Eleni Boutati
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine – Infectious Diseases – Diabetes Mellitus, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Reinhard G. Bretzel
Professor Dr., Chairman, Head of Department, Third Med. Department, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, GERMANY
Verena Briner
MD, FACP, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, SWITZERLAND
Ion Bruckner
Professor, Romanian Society of Internal Medicine, ROMANIA
Maria Domenica Cappellini
Professor, Chief of Internal Medice Unit, Policlinico Hospital, “Ca Granda” Foundation, University of Milan, ITALY
Ugo E.F. Carcassi
Professor, EFIM Honorary President, ITALY
Pedro Pablo Casado
Dr, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, SPAIN
Ricard Cervera
MD, PhD, FRCP, Head, Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, SPAIN
Richard Ceska
President, Czech Society of Internal Medicine, CZECH REPUBLIC
Rudolph Cini
Board Member, ICN, MALTA
Dennis V. Cokkinos
Professor, Director, Cardiovascular Department, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, GREECE
Pedro Conthe
Head of Internal Medicina. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon Madrid/ Spanish Society of Internal Medicine, SPAIN
Lorenzo Dagna
Professor, M.D. Unit of Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University School of Medicine, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, ITALY
George Daikos
Assistant Professor, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
George Dalekos
Professor of Medicine, Director of the Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa / Director of the Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, University of Thessaly, Medical School/ Head of the Research Group of Investigational Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Research & Technology, CERETETH, Larissa, GREECE
Kostas Danis
Epidemiologist, MD, Hellenic Centre For Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO), GREECE
Sven Danner
Professor, Clinical AIDS Unit, Academisch Medisch Centrum/ Head, Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, THE NETHERLANDS
Christopher Davidson
Dr., Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Postgraduate Medicine, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
Ioannis Dervenoulas
Associate Professor, Attikon General Hospital, GREECE
Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis
Professor of Pathology, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Emmanuel Diamantopoulos
Professor, Director, 4th Department of Internal Medicine and Unit of Vascular Medicine, “Evangelismos” State General Hospital, GREECE
George Dimitriadis
Professor/ Chairman, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / Attikon University Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Athanassios-Meletios Dimopoulos
Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Clinical Therapeutics / Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Ioanna Dimopoulou
Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2nd Department of Critical Care Medicine, Attikon University General, Athens, GREECE
Evangelos Dousis
Secretary General, Hellenic Nurses Association (HNA), GREECE
Athanasios Dritsas
Cardiologist, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, GREECE
Roger Duckitt
EFIM Young Interninsts Committee, UK
Jan Willem F. Elte
MD PhD FRCP FACP FEFIM (hon), Internist-endocrinologist, St Franciscus Gasthuis Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Faustino Ferreira
MD, FACP, Hospital SAMS Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Emmanuel Fragoulis
Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Athens, GREECE
Georgia Gerolouka - Kostopanagiotou
Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Head, 2nd Department of Anesthesiology, University General Hospital “Attikon”, GREECE
Evangelos Giamarellos-Bourboulis
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Athens, GREECE
Helen Giamarellou
Professor, Head, 6th Department of Internal Medicine, Hygeia Hospital/ Athens University Medical School, GREECE
Matthias Graf Von Der Schulenburg
Professor of Risk, Insurance & Health Economics, Leibniz University Hannover/ Director, Institute for Risk and Insurance and Competence Center for Risk and Insurance, Hannover / Center for Health Economics/ President, German Society for Health Economics, Hannover, GERMANY
Christina Gratziou
Head of Asthma Centre, Smoking Cessation Clinic, Pulmonary and Critical Department, Medical School, Athens University, Evgenidio Hospital, GREECE
Dimitrios I. Hadjidakis
M.D., Assoc. Professor Internal Medicine-Endocrinology, Endocrine Unit, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine-Propaedeutic, Research Institute and Diabetes Centre, Athens University Medical School, «Attikon» University Hospital, Athens, Greece
Hans-Ulrich Haering
Prof. Dr. med., Department of Internal Medicine IV, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology, Pathobiochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, GERMANY
Panagiotis Halvatsiotis
Assistant Professor, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine - Propaedeutic, Research Unit and Diabetes Center of Athens University Medical School, University General Hospital “Attikon”, Athens, GREECE
Dr. Virginia L. Hood
MBBS, MPH, FACP, Burlington, VT
President, American College of Physicians, USA
Ignatios Ikonomidis
Assistant Professor, Cardiologist, 2nd Cardiology Department, University of Athens, GREECE
Efstathios Iliodromitis
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Attikon General Hospital, GREECE
Philippe Jaeger
Honorary Chair of Nephrology, Centre For Nephrology, Medical School, University College of London, Royal Free Hospital/ Director of Research and Development for Nephrology and Metabolic Diseases, Amgen International, SWITZERLAND
Stylianos Karatapanis
Dr., Director, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, GREECE
Nicholas L. Katsilambros
Professor, MD, PhD, FACP, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / Evgenideion Hospital & Research Laboratory “N. S. Christeas”, Athens, GREECE
Antonios Kattamis
Asst. Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Thalassemia Unit, First Department of Pediatrics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / ‘Aghia Sofia’ Children’s Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Nikolaos Kelekis
Professor of Radiology, 2nd Department of Radiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Emmanuel Kalokerinos
M.D., President, Panhellenic Medical Association, GREECE
George Kitas
Consultant Rheumatologist, Professor of Clinical Rheumatology, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester & Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, UK
Alexander Kokkinos
Lecturer in Internal Medicine, First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Laiko General Hospital, GREECE
Valentin Kokorin
Associate Professor of The Hospital Therapy #1 Department, GOU VPO Russian State Medical University of Roszdrav, RUSSIA
Genovefa Kolovou
Assistant Director 1st Cardiology Department, Head of Lipid Clinic, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, GREECE
Anastasia Kotanidou
Associate Professor, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, GREECE
Lubos Kotik
Head of the I. Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty Thomayers´s Hospital Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Dimitrios Kremastinos
Professor of Cardiology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Xenophon Krokidis
Dr. MED, Senior Registrar of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Kavala, Kavala, GREECE
Eugene Joseph Kucharz
Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, POLAND
Venetsana Kyriazopoulou
Professor in Internal Medicine & Endocrinology, Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Patras, GREECE
Meir Lahav
Professor, Department of Medicine A, Rabin Medical Centre, ISRAEL
Vaia Lambadiari
Lecturer in Internal Medicine, Diabetes & Metabolism, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, GREECE
Hendrik Lehnert
Professor of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Director, Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Luebeck, GERMANY
John Lekakis
Dr, Cardiologist, Attikon University Hospital, GREECE
Anne Lekeux
FINE Honorary President/ Prof.International Coordinator, WHO Taskforce Nursing Education, BELGIUM
Theodore Liakakos
Vice Rector of Student Affairs and External Relations, Professor, M.D., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Christos D. Liapis
MD, FACS,FRCS, FEBUS, Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Athens/ Chairman of the Department of Vascular Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, GREECE
Stavros Liatis
Consultant in Internal Medicine & Diabetology, 1st Department of Internal Medicine – Diabetes Center, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Stefan Lindgren
Professor of Medicine, Senior Consultant in Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, SWEDEN
Dimitrios Loukopoulos
Emeritus Professor of Pathology/Hematology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GREECE
Branko Lovic
Professor, Serbian Association of Internal Medicine, SERBIA
Dragan Lovic
Ass. Proffesor of Internal medicine –Cardiology, Belgrade University US Medical School/ Director of Internal clinic” Inter Medica, ESH Exelence Center of Hypertension, President of Serbian Society of Hypertension, SERBIA
Alfred Mahr
MD, PhD, Hospital Saint-Louis, FRANCE
Efstratios Maltezos
Professor, Head of the Second Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University Thrace, GREECE
Christos Manes
Consultant Physician, MD, PhD, Diabetes Center, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital, GREECE
Emanuel Manesis
Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, GREECE
Pier M. Mannucci
MD, Scientific Director, IRCCS Cà Granda Foundation, Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Milano, ITALY
Athanasios Manolis
Professor, Director of Cardiology Department, Asklepeion Hospital, GREECE
Paraskevi Matsota
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, 2nd Department of Anesthesiology, University General Hospital Attikon, GREECE
Sofia Mela
Scientific and Communication Director, Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE), GREECE
Efthimia Melissari
Dr., Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, ATHENS
Asimina Mitrakou
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens Medical School, GREECE
Panagiota Mitrou
Hellenic National Center for Research, Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications (H.N.D.C.), GREECE
Manuel Monreal
Professor, Head of Section, Internal Medicine, Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, SPAIN
Antonio Martins-Baptista
Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine, PORTUGAL
Stylianos Orfanos
Associate Professor of Critical Care & Medicine, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens/ 2nd Department of Critical Care, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Miodrag Ostojic
Professor, Interventional Cardiologist, Head of Division of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, SERBIA
Vassiliki Pappa
Associate Professor, Attikon General Hospital, GREECE
Christos A. Papadimitriou
Associate Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Dimitris Papadogiannis
Associate Professor of Cardiology & Internal Medicine, 1st Department of Propaedeutic and Internal Medicine, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / Laiko General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Antonios Papadopoulos
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / Attikon University Hospital, GREECE
Angelos Papadopoulos
Dr., Attikon University Hospital, Athens, GREECE
George Papanikolaou
MD PhD, Lecturer in Human Biology & Molecular Genetics, Department of Dietetics and Nutritional Science, Harokopion University of Athens, GREECE
Peter Papapetrou
M.D., Honorary Director, Division of Endocrinology, Alexandra Hospital, GREECE
Ioannis Papassotiriou
Director, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, "Aghia Sophia" Children's Hospital, GREECE
George Papatheodoridis
Associate Professor in Medicine & Gastroenterology, Athens University Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, GREECE
Spyros Papiris
Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Vasiliki Pappa
Assistant Professor of Hematology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University General, Athens, GREECE
George Pappas
Dr., Head/ Physician Specializing In Infectious Diseases, Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina & ISC Zoonoses Working Group, Ioannina, GREECE
Ioannis A. Paraskevaidis
Associate Professor of Cardiology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
John Parissis
Cardiologist, Assistant Professor, Cardiologist, Attikon University Hospital, GREECE
Gregory Pavlides
Cardiologist, Director, 1st Cardiology Department, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, GREECE
Angelos Pefanis
Chief, Department of Medicine, Sotiria General and Chest Diseases Hospital of Athens, GREECE
Melpomeni Peppa
MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Endocrinology, Second Department of Internal Medicine-Propaedeutic, Research Institute and Diabetes Center, Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Rukiye Pinar
Professor, Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Yeditepe University, TURKEY
Christos Pissiotis
PHMA representative, Member of Task Force EACCME on CME-CPD, Professor, M.D., PhD., European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) - European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), GREECE
Andreas Pittaras
Chief Cardiology, Mediton Medical Center, GREECE
Dimitrios Polymeros
Consultant Gastroenterologist, “Attikon” University Hospital, GREECE
Aristidis Polyzos
School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens/ Laiko General Hospital, GREECE
Amanda Psyrri
Lecturer, Attikon General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Ramon Pujol Farriols
Professor, M.D., EFIM President, SPAIN
Giovanni Raimondo
Full Professor of Internal Medicine, University Messina/ Director of the Complex Operative Unit of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, University Hospital of Messina, ITALY
Loukianos Rallidis
Assistant Professor in Cardiology, University General Hospital Attikon, GREECE
Athanasions Raptis
Assistant Professor, Internist, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine - Research Institute and Diabetes Center, Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, GREECE
Sotirios A. Raptis
M.D., PhD., M.D. (Hon), HMGSIM, HFEFIM, HSIM President, Athens, GREECE
Nicole Renders
Dr, MD, PhD, Microbiologist, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 'S-Hertogenbosch, THE NETHERLANDS
Shirley Reveley
Faculty of Health & Social Care, The Open University, UK
Werner A. Scherbaum
M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Chair, Head, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Rheumatology, University Hospital Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, GERMANY
Petra-Maria Schumm-Draeger
Professor of Internal Medicine, Technical University of Munich School of Medicine, GERMANY
Daniel Jacques Séréni
Professor, Past President, EFIM Executive Committee/ Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital Saint-Louis, FRANCE
Petros P. Sfikakis
Professor of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School / Head, Rheumatology Unit, First Department of Propedeutic and Internal Medicine, Laikon University Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Nick Sheron
Dr., Clinical Lead in Hepatology/Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, UK
Yehuda Shoenfeld
Professor, Head of Center of Autoimmunity, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, ISRAEL
Monique Slee-Valentjin
Trainee In Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Centre, THE NETHERLANDS
Constantin Soldatos
Professor of Psychiatry, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Maria Soulis
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases / 2nd Department Internal Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Eberhard Standl
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. E. Standl, FESC
Munich Diabetes Research Institute
at the Munich Helmholtz Centre, Germany
Leonidas Stefanis
Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurobiology, 2nd Department of Neurology, University of Athens Medical School, GREECE
Yannis Stournaras
Professor, General Director, Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), GREECE
Maria Tektonidou
Dr., Rheumatologist, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GREECE
Nikolaos Tentolouris
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine & Diabetes, 1st Department of Propaedeutic and Internal Medicine, Athens Medical School Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Maria Theodorakopoulou
Registrar in ICU, Surgeon – ICU Specialist, 2nd ICU Department, University Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, GREECE
Hans L. Tillman
Assistant Professor, Duke Clinical Research Institute, DUKE University, USA
Achilles Tourkantonis,
Professor, First Medical Clinic, “AHEPA” Hospital, Thessaloniki, GREECE
Constantinos Triantafyllou
Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology / 2nd Department Internal Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
Panagiotis Tsirigotis
Lecturer in Hematology, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Propaudeutic, Hematology Unit, Attikon General University Hospital, GREECE
Georgios Tsivgoulis
Lecturer of Neurology, Democritus University of Thrace, GREECE
Serhat Unal
Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Hacettepe University Medical School, TURKEY
Felix Unger
President, Professor, M.D., M.D.(Hon), European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Georgios Vaiopoulos
Professor of Internal Medicine, National & Kapodistrian university of Athens, GREECE
Apostolos Vagenakis
Emeritus Professor, University of Patras Medical School, GREECE
Emmanuel Vavouranakis
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippocration General Hospital, Athens, GREECE
António Vaz Carneiro
MD, PhD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Lisbon/ Head, Center for EBM, Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Dimitrios Vlachakos
Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens/ Attikon General Hospital, GREECE
Wim Weber
European Research Editor, British Medical Journal, UNITED KINGDOM
Jiri Widimsky
Professor, MD, Ph.D, Head, Center for Hypertension, IIIrd Internal Department, Charles University, Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC
Athanassios Yalouris
Director of the 1st Department of Internal Medicine, “Elpis” General Hospital of Athens, GREECE
Cihan Yurdaydin
Professor of Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology Department, University of Ankara Medical School, Ankara, TURKEY
As of the 27th of September
