Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Chair Dept of Medicine
4th Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital Attikon, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece, Greece
Sotirios Tsiodras is a Professor & chair of Medicine & Infectious Diseases at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. He completed post graduate training at Harvard Medical School in the USA and he is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases by the ABIM. He holds a MSc in the Medical Sciences from Harvard Medical School and was a recipient of the Clinical Investigator Training Program fellowship conducted by HMS and the MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology both in Boston, MA. He has a PhD in Medicine from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. He is a member of the European CDC Advisory Forum since 2009, the current President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Greece and an Infectious Diseases Society of America fellow. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers and his work has so far received more than 20 000 citations from international journals. One of his recent papers in Nature with regards to machine learning and border control during the pandemic was praised as one of the best examples of using data in the fight against COVID-19. He has delivered more than 500 national and international talks on Infectious diseases related issues. He is the chair of the National committee of experts on Public Health, the chief scientific advisor of the Greek CDC and a member of the EU scientific advice platform on COVID-19. He was praised as one of the heroes of the pandemic by the New York times. He is currently doing clinical and research work in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Attikon University Hospital and the National & Kapodistrian Athens University Medical School in Athens, Greece.