Evaggelia Charmandari

November 27, 2017 1:31 pm Published by
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Evaggelia Charmandari MD, MSc, PhD, MRCP(UK), CCST(UK)

Evangelia Charmandari graduated from the Medical School of the University of Thessaloniki as a valedictorian of her class and completed her specialization in General Pediatrics in the UK. She was further subspecialized in Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology at the London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University College Hospital in London (UK). She is a certified Pediatrician and Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinologist by the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, London, UK. She obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Pediatrics and a PhD in Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, which were awarded by the University of London (UK). She subsequently undertook a Postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Endocrinology and Cellular Biology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She also worked as a Consultant in Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology at St. James’ University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK.

 

In February 2011, Dr. Charmandari joined the faculty of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as an Associate Professor, and became Full Professor of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology in 2015. She carries out her clinical and research work at the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, First Department of Pediatrics, “Aghia Sophia” Hospital for Children. She is also an Affiliated Investigator of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens.

 

She has published 95 papers in refereed journals, which have received > 5100 citations (h-index=37, Source: Google Scholar, total impact factor=490), as well as 1 book, 44 chapters in textbooks and electronic journals, and 150 abstracts in conference proceedings. In 2007 she was awarded the ‘Henning Andersen Prize’ of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (basic research). She has been an invited speaker in > 100 National and International Meetings. Finally, she has attracted 1,088,000.00 research funding as a main Principal Investigator (PI) and 790,000.00 Euros as co-PI. During the last 4 years, she has been the Scientific Supervisor and Coordinator of the Program entitled ‘Development of a National System for the Prevention and Management of Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence’, which is funded by the European Union and the General Secretariat of Research and Development, Greece.


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