Curriculum Vitae
Stylianos Vittorakis MD, PhD
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ACADEMIC TITLE:
Ph.D – University of Athens
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
November 2011 to date Private Practice in Pulmonology in Chania Crete. The surgery has the necessary equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of all pulmonary diseases. Inpatient treatment and bronchoscopy for hospitalized patients in Private Clinics.
Sept 2011 European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine – E.R.S – H.E.R.M.E.S (Harmonized Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists)
March 2011 to Sept 2011 Research assistant/fellow in 7th Resp. Medicine Dpt. Postgraduate training in Sleep Disorders Lab of Sotiria Hospital, ATHENS
20 -1- 2011Senior Registrar in Respiratory Medicine
April 2006 to March 2011“Sotiria” Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, GREECE: SHO II in Respiratory Medicine (inpatient work, outpatient clinics, emergency and on-call duties, bronchoscopy dept., Endobronchial EBUS Ultrasound Dept.)
December 2005 Department of Respiratory Medicine, ‘Sotiria’ Hospital, University of Athens, GREECE: Clinical fellow in Respiratory Medicine
May 2004 – Nov 2004 Dr. Vittorakis (General Practitioner) Private Clinic, Chania, Crete, GREECE: Practicing in General Medicine (inpatient work, outpatient clinics, emergency duties)
Aug. 2003 – May 2004 HELLENIC ARMY FORCΕ, 5th Infantry Division, Chania, 8th Infantry Division, Megisti Island, GREECE Second Lieutenant Doctor (inpatient work, outpatient clinics, emergency duties, medical support in military training expeditions)
July 2002 – July 2003 Meskla Regional Clinic, Kantanos Medical Center, Chania, GREECE: SHO in General Medicine (mandatory Primary Health Care ΤΥΠΟΣ ΔΙΠΛΩΜΑΤΟΣ within the Greek NHS – outpatient clinics, house calls, emergency and on-call duties)
April 2002 – July 2002 “Agios Georgios” General Hospital, Chania, GREECE SHO in General Surgery, Cardiology and A&E (mandatory District Hospital ΤΥΠΟΣ ΔΙΠΛΩΜΑΤΟΣ within the Greek NHS – inpatient work, outpatient clinics, emergency duties)
EDUCATION & TRAINING
1995 – 2002 : Medical Degree, University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, GREECE
Febr. 2005 to May 2013 : National and Kapodistrial University of Athens, GREECE
PhD course: Title: “Kinetics of dendritic cells subtypes in blood and skin of atopic patients upon one and multiple skin allergen challenges”.
September 2020 What is New in Respiratory Medicine, Ioannina Greece
September 2020 ERS Virtual Congress plus COVID-19 Day
December 2019 28th Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, Athens, Greece
December 2018 27th Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, Athens, Greece
November 2018 19th Pan-Cretan Medical Congress, Chania, Greece
June 2018 Asthma Seminar: “The new era in severe asthma treatment: Biological treatments and personalized approach”, Asthma Working Group of Greek Respiratory Society, Volos, Greece
November 2017 26th Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, Athens, Greece
November 2017 Hands on course on Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer, Heraklion, Greece
June 2018 Asthma Seminar: “The new era in severe asthma treatment: Biological treatments and personalized approach”, Asthma Working Group of Greek Respiratory Society, Volos, Greece
November 2017 26th Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, Athens, Greece
November 2017 Hands on course on Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer, Heraklion, Greece
May 2017: 6th Panhellenic Medical Congress for Sleep Disorders, Athens Greece
May 2017: 43rd Panhellenic Medical Congress, Athens Greece
November 2016: 2nd Panhellenic Medical Congress for Chest and Environmental Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece
November 2016 : 18th Pancretan Medical Congress, Rethymnon, Greece
May 2016 Asthma Seminar: “Asthma: Myths and realities” Greek Respiratory Society, Volos, Greece
Αpril 2016 Breathing 2016: COPD and Asthma Scientific Event, Athens, Greece
November 2015 24nd Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, Athens, Greece
July 2015 ERS School Course: Smoking Cessation Using Innovative Techniques, Athens, Greece
October 2014 17th Pancretan Medical Congress, Heraklion, Greece
March 2014 Asthma Seminar: “Asthma phenotypes and endotypes” Greek Respiratory Society, Athens, Greece
November 2013 22nd Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, Athens, Greece
April 2013 Asthma Seminar: “Asthma from A to A” Greek Respiratory Society, Athens, Greece
October 2012 21st Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, Athens, Greece
September 2011 European Respiratory Society Annual Congress 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
January 2011 Hellenic Thoracic Society: Postgraduate Seminar In Chest Radiology
December 2010 ERS School Web-based Course 0n ‘The management of infants identified with cystic fibrosis following newborn screening’’
December 2010 Seminar in Smoking Cessation, Hellenic Thoracic Society, Athens
September 2010 European Respiratory Society Annual Congress 2010, Barcelona, Spain
July 2010 Hellenic Thoracic Society: 4th Teaching Seminar on ‘Bronchoscopy: Science, Technique and Art’, Athens
April 2009 ‘13th State-of-the-Art Interdisciplinary Review Course on Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine & Nursing Care’, Athens
April-May 2010 ‘ERS School Web-based Course 0n Chest Imaging: Technical aspects and interpretation’
June 2010 14th State-of-the-Art Interdisciplinary Review Course on Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine & Nursing Care’, Athens, GREECE
May 2009 35ο Annual PanHellenic Medical Congress, Athens
April 2009 13th State-of-the-Art Interdisciplinary Review Course on Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine & Nursing Care’, Athens, GREECE
March 2009 ECR 2009 (European Congress of Radiology), Vienna, AUSTRIA
October-November 2008: ERS School Web-based Course 0n Smoking Cessation
October 2008: European Respiratory Society Annual Congress 2008, Berlin, GERMANY
April-May 2008 ERS School Web-based Course 0n Spirometry
April 2008:12th State-of-the-Art Interdisciplinary Review Course on Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine & Nursing Care’, Athens, GREECE
Αpril 2008 Postgraduate Seminar in Respiratory Medicine, Anavyssos, GREECE
November-December 2007: ERS School Web-based Course 0n Pulmonary Hypertension
April-July 2007 ERS School Web-based Course 0n Pneumonia July 2007 ERS Research Seminar ‘Severe Asthma’, Athens, GREECE
April 2007 11th State-of-the-Art Interdisciplinary Review Course on Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine &Nursing Care’, Athens, GREECE
March 2007 Postgraduate Seminar in Emergency Respiratory Medicine, Athens, GREECE
March 2007 ECR 2007 (European Congress of Radiology), Vienna, AUSTRIA
June 2006 EAACI & GA2LEN Summer School, Chalkidiki, GREECE
March 2006 PAH University Course, Hospital Antoine Beclere, South Paris University, Clamart, FRANCE
Jan. 2006 Scientific Meeting for Thromboembolic Disease – Pulmonary Hypertension, Athens, GREECE
Nov. 2005 Postgraduate Seminar in Respiratory Failure: Imaging and Treatment, Athens, GREECE
April 2005 9th State-of-the-Art Interdisciplinary Review Course on Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine & Nursing Care’, Athens, GREECE
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Feb. 2005 to date Sotiria Athens Chest Hospital and Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens Research in Asthma and Allergic Diseases
PAPERS
Vittorakis S, Samitas K, Tousa S, Zervas E, Aggelakopoulou M, Semitekolou M, Panoutsakopoulou V, Xanthou G, Gaga M. Circulating Conventional and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Subsets Display Distinct Kinetics during In Vivo Repeated Allergen Skin Challenges in Atopic Subjects. Biomed Res Int. 2014;2014:231036. Epub 2014 Apr 28
Skevaki CL, Psarras S, Volonaki E, Pratsinis H, Spyridaki IS, Gaga M, Georgiou V, Vittorakis S, Telcian AG, Maggina P, Kletsas D, Gourgiotis D, Johnston SL, Papadopoulos NG.“Rhinovirus-induced basic fibroblast growth factor release mediates airway remodeling features.” Clin Transl Allergy. 2012 Aug 21;2(1):14.
Chorianopoulos D, Samitas K, Vittorakis S, Kiriazi V, Rondoyianni D, Tsaousis G, Skoutelis A.’Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, nasal-type.’Skinmed. 2010 Jan-Feb;8(1):56-8.
Samitas K, Zervas E, Vittorakis S, Semitekolou M, Alissafi T, Bossios A, Gogos H, Economidou E, Lötvall J, Xanthou G, Panoutsakopoulou V, Gaga M.’Osteopontin expression and relation to disease severity in human asthma.’Eur Respir J. 2010 Jun 18.
E.Zervas, K.Samitas, S.Vittorakis. M.Koutsami, A.Thomopoulos, A.Liapikou, E.Oikonomidou, M, Gaga: ‘Safety of Research bronchoscopy in mild-moderate and severe asthma’. Pneumon. 2010; 23:34-47
Samitas K, Chorianopoulos D, Vittorakis S, Zervas E, Economidou E, Papatheodorou G, Loukides S, Gaga M.
‘Exhaled cysteinyl-leukotrienes and 8-isoprostane in patients with asthma and their relation to clinical severity.’
Respir Med. 2009 May;103(5):750-6. Epub 2008 Dec 24.
D.Chorianopoulos, K. Samitas, S. Vittorakis, V. Makrygianni, A. Tassidou, Ch.Vadala, A. Skoutelis: Indolent fever, weight loss and spleen infiltrate. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2008; 43: 1275:1278
K.Samitas, S.Vittorakis, D.Chorianopoulos, E.Oikonomidou, M.Gaga: Immunological Mechanisms in The Lung. Pneumon, 2007; 20;3274
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
M.Kallieri, E.Zervas, K.Katsoulis, E.Fouka, K.Porpodis, K.Samitas, A.Papaioannou, M.Kipourou’, P.Lyberopoulos, E.Gaki, S.Vittorakis, M.Markatos, K.Dimakou’, S.Ampelioti, S.Koukidou, M.Makris, M.Ntakoula, M.Hadji Mitrova, S.Papiris, N.Tzanakis, D.Papakosta, P.Bakakos, M.Gaga, S.Loukides: “FOLLOW-UP OF ΡΑΤΙΕΝΤS WlΤΗ SEVERE EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA RECEIVING ΜΕΡΟLIZUΜΑΒ FOR ΟΝΕ YEAR ΙΝ SPECIALIZED ASTHMA CLINICS ΙΝ GREECE, 28th Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, December 2019, Athens, Greece
S.Vittorakis, “Do all patients treated for COPD suffer from the didease?”, Primary Medical Care seminar, February 2019, Chania, Greece
E.Fragakis, S.Vittorakis, A.Papadaki, A.Kazi, S.Niforatou-Daskalaki, E.Gavrilakis, E.Papadakis. Vitamin D levels in adults in Chania District, Greece. 19th Pan-Cretan Medical Congress. November 2018, Chania, Greece.
S.Vittorakis “Allergic Bronchopulmonary Mycosis”, Asthma Seminar: “The new era in severe asthma treatment: Biological treatments and personalized approach”, Asthma Working Group of Greek Respiratory Society, June 2018,Volos, Greece
S.Vittorakis, M.Papadakakis, E.Michelaki, S.Niforatou-Daskalaki, E.Gavrilakis, E.Papadakis. “Bell’s palsy due to Lyme disease”, 18th Pancretan Medical Congress, November 2016, Rethymnon, Greece
S.Vittorakis, “Cough Variant Asthma” Asthma Seminar, Greek Respiratory Society, May 2016, Volos, Greece
S.Vittorakis, E.Michelaki, S.Niforatou-Daskalaki, E.Gavrilakis, E.Papadakis. “Severe hypokalemia and hypertension dye to undiagnosed primary hypoaldosteronism”, 17th Pancretan Medical Congress, October 2014, Heraklion, Greece
S.Vittorakis, “Top 5 last year’s articles on asthma phenotypes” Asthma Seminar, Greek Respiratory Society, March 2016, Eretria, Greece
K. Samitas, E.Zervas, S.Vittorakis, A. Bossios, E.Economidou, J. Lotvall, G.Xanthou, V.Panoutsakopoulou and M.Gaga, ’Osteopontin expression and relation to disease severity in human asthma’, ERS Annual Congress, September 2010, Barcelona
S.Vittorakis, I.Petrochelou, E.Zervas, ‘Induced Sputum’, 25th Postgraduate Seminar, Hellenic Thoracic Society, 2009, Athens
K. Samitas, G.Xanthou, S.Vittorakis, E.Zervas, T.Alissafi, E.Economidou, V.Panoutsakopoulou and M.Gaga, ‘Osteopontin is increased serum, BAL and bronchial tissue of asymptomatic smokers, ERS Annual Congress, September 2009, Vienna
K. Samitas, E.Zervas, S.Vittorakis, E.Economidou, V.Panoutsakopoulou, G.Xanthou and M.Gaga, ’Increased Activin-A expression in serum, BAL and bronchial tissue of asthmatic patients’, ERS Annual Congress, September 2009, Vienna
K. Samitas, G.Xanthou, S.Vittorakis, E.Zervas, T.Alissafi, M.Semitekolou, E.Economidou, Jan Lotvall, M.Gaga and V.Panoutsakopoulou, ’Osteopontin Expression in BAL, serum and bronchial tissue in asthma’ June 2009, Warsaw
S.Vittorakis, K. Samitas, M.Agelakopoulou, M.Semitekolou, V.Panoutsakopoulou, G.Xanthou and M.Gaga ‘Different kinetics of blood plasmacytoid (pDCs) and myeloid Dendritic Cells (mDCs) upon allergen challenge in the skin of atopic patients’, ERS Annual Congress 2008, Berlin, Germany
THEMATIC PRESENTATIONS
S.Vittorakis, G.Giannakopoulou, O.Alygizaki, A.Psarakis, E.Gavrilakis, E.Papadakis: Recurrent middle lobe pneumonia mimicking lung cancer (in bronchoscopy and radiology findings) due to foreign body aspiration two months earlier in a healthy adult, 27h Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, November 2018, Athens, Greece
S.Vittorakis, G.Giannakopoulou, K.Konstantinides, A.Daskalaki. A Papathanasiou,K. Samitas , E.Zervas.: Isolated colonic metastasis two years after resected and non-locally recurred stage IA (T1bN0M0) primary lung adenocarcinoma. 26th Pan-Hellenic Respiratory Congress, November 2017, Athens, Greece
I.Spyridakh, C.Skeyaki, K.Trochoutsou, S.Vittorakis, I.Christodoulou, P.Mpakakos, S.Loukides, M.Gaga, Ν.G.Papadopoulos, ‘Rhinovirus induced cytotoxicity in epithelial cells differs between upper and lower respiratory tract of asthmatic patients’, 8th Panhellenic Congress of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, April 2010, Athens
K.Samitas, D.Chorianopoulos, S.Vittorakis, E.Zervas, E.Economidou, G. Papatheodorou, S.Loukides, and M.Gaga: Eicosanoids in EBC in adults with asthma and their relation to clinical severity, ERS Annual Congress 2008, Berlin, Germany
Economidou E., Lambrou P.,Samitas K., Zervas E., Liapikou A., Vittorakis S., Gaga M.: Safety of research bronchoscopy in mild, moderate and severe asthma, ERS Annual Congress 2008, Berlin, Germany
V.Panoutsakopoulou, G.Xanthou, E.Oikonomidou, T.Alissafi, K.Samitas, S.Vittorakis, M.Gaga (Athens, Greece) Increased expression of Eta-1/osteopontin in asthma biopsies. Eur Respir J 2006; Suppl. 50,236s
REVIEWER FOR MEDICAL JOURNALS
Reviewer for BMC Pulmonary Medicine, American Journal of Case Reports, ERJ Open Research, European Respiratory Journal
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION
April to May 2016 Free spirometry testing for residents at Open Care Centers for the Elderly in Kounoupidianna, Koumpes ,Pachiana and Chalepa (organized by Municipality of Chania). Free spirometry testing for workers at Technical University of Crete.
November 2011 to date Publications on local newspapers and participation on television programs for lung diseases
LICENSES & MEMBERSHIPS
2011- Member of Chania Medical Association
2004 – Member of the European Respiratory Society
2004 – Full member of the Hellenic Thoracic Society
12/03/2002 Granting of License to Practice Medicine in Greece, Athens Prefecture Medical Board, Directorate of Health & Public Hygiene, Hellenic Republic
March 2002 Fully registered with the Athens Medical Council, GREECE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
April 2006 – Nov 2011: Junior Doctors’ Postgraduate Courses Lecturer,“Sotiria” Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, GREECE
April 2017: Qualified as Smoking Cessation trainer for healthcare professional in a program organized by World Health Organization, European Respiratory Society and Greek Center for Disease Control (KEELPNO).
LANGUAGES
Greek (Mother tongue)
English:Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of Cambridge (1999)
First Certificate in English, University of Cambridge (1993)
