Professor, Laboratory Director
Attikon University General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
SPYROS A. POURNARAS
PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Director, LABORATORY of CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ATTIKON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
MEDICAL SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, GREECE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
1993: MD, Medical School, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (AUT)
1994-1998: Registrar, Department of Microbiology, AHEPA Hospital, Medical School, AUT;
1999: Medical Specialty in Medical Microbiology
2000: PhD, Medical School, AUT
2001: Lecturer, Department of Microbiology; 2007: Asst. Professor of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Thessaly (UTH)
2009-2013: Head, Department of Clinical Chemistry, UTH
2013-2015: Assoc. Prof. of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, University of Athens (NKUA)
2014 -: Attending Guest Professor, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
2015 -: Professor of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, NKUA
2016 -: Director, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
2017 -: Chair of Clinical Laboratories Division, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
2017 -2021; 2022-: Chair, Infection Control Committee, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
2019 - : Chair, Infection Committee, 2nd Regional Health of Greece
2019 - 2023: Program Committee Member, ECCMID
2020 - : Head, COVID-19 Molecular Diagnostics Reference Laboratory for the 2nd Regional Health, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Teaching Activities in Medical Schools of: NKUA, UTH, AUT, Greece, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Coordinator of the ESCMID Postgraduate Educational Courses:
“Phenotypic and Molecular approaches for Detection and Control of Carbapenem- and Colistin-resistant Gram-negatives”, Volos, Greece 23-24 May 2019
“Last-line antibiotics against XDR/PDR Gram-negatives: Understanding phenotype-genotype correlations and PK/PD approaches”, Athens, Greece 7-9 June 2023
PUBLICATIONS: 240
Sum Impact Factor (IF): ≈ 1400
H-Index: 45
Citations= 8,130 (SCOPUS)
EDITOR IN PEER-REVIEWED MEDICAL JOURNALS:
1. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
2. BMC Microbiology
3. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
4. Chemotherapy Research and Practice
5. Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery
6. Data Set Papers in Medicine
7. Frontiers in Medicine
8. Frontiers in Public Health
9. Antibiotics
REVIEWER IN >60 PEER-REVIEWED MEDICAL JOURNALS