Senior Consultant Physician in Pulmonary Medicine
"Sotiria" Hospital for Thoracic Diseases
6th Pulmonary Department
152 Mesogeion Ave.
GR-115 27
Athens
Greece.
 | idimit@hotmail.com |
Professional biography
I was born on the island of Chios, Greece, and graduated from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Professional appointments
Medical Officer, Hellenic Army, 414 Military Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 1989–1991.
Senior House Officer, University Department of Respiratory Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 1991–1995.
Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 1998–2000 and 2002–2005.
Honorary Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK, 2000–2002. During this period, I was also a visiting physician in the Sleep Studies Department at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
Senior Consultant Respiratory Physician, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 2005–present.
Head of the 6th Department of Respiratory Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, 2020–present.
Doctoral research
I began my doctoral research in 1993 and completed my PhD in 1998. My doctoral thesis, which focused on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, received the First Prize of the Hellenic Thoracic Society for research in COPD.
Clinical interests and expertise
My principal clinical interests include lung cancer, interventional bronchoscopy, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, occupational and environmental respiratory disease, respiratory physiology and sleep medicine.
I perform interventional bronchoscopic procedures for the diagnosis, staging and palliative management of lung cancer, including endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration—EBUS-TBNA—photodynamic therapy and airway-stent placement. I also have a particular interest in the systemic treatment of lung cancer, including chemotherapy.
Specialist training in London
During my time in London, I received additional specialist training in:
Lung cancer and interventional bronchoscopy, under Professor Pallav Shah.
Occupational and environmental respiratory disease, with particular emphasis on occupational asthma, occupational lung cancer and mesothelioma, under Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor and Professor Paul Cullinan.
Interstitial lung disease, under Professor Ron du Bois and Professor Athol Wells.
Sleep medicine, polysomnography and respiratory physiology, under Professor Michael Polkey and Professor Anita Simonds.
Current clinical and research activities
In addition to my inpatient responsibilities, I run specialist outpatient clinics for patients with:
lung cancer;
interstitial lung disease;
pulmonary arterial hypertension, including patients receiving endothelin-receptor antagonist therapy.
I am a member of the Hellenic Institute for the Study of Sepsis and have participated in the FERMIN, PRECISION, INSPIRE and REACT clinical trials.
Note concerning publications and full-text articles
Only publications written in English are listed below.
If you are unable to access an article through the publisher’s website, please contact me. To the best of my knowledge, the attached or linked PDF documents are legally available as free full-text versions.
If you are a copyright holder and believe that any document or link should be removed, please email me, and I will remove it promptly.
I was born on the island of Chios, Greece, and graduated from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Professional appointments
Medical Officer, Hellenic Army, 414 Military Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 1989–1991.
Senior House Officer, University Department of Respiratory Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 1991–1995.
Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 1998–2000 and 2002–2005.
Honorary Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK, 2000–2002. During this period, I was also a visiting physician in the Sleep Studies Department at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
Senior Consultant Respiratory Physician, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece, 2005–present.
Head of the 6th Department of Respiratory Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, 2020–present.
Doctoral research
I began my doctoral research in 1993 and completed my PhD in 1998. My doctoral thesis, which focused on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, received the First Prize of the Hellenic Thoracic Society for research in COPD.
Clinical interests and expertise
My principal clinical interests include lung cancer, interventional bronchoscopy, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, occupational and environmental respiratory disease, respiratory physiology and sleep medicine.
I perform interventional bronchoscopic procedures for the diagnosis, staging and palliative management of lung cancer, including endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration—EBUS-TBNA—photodynamic therapy and airway-stent placement. I also have a particular interest in the systemic treatment of lung cancer, including chemotherapy.
Specialist training in London
During my time in London, I received additional specialist training in:
Lung cancer and interventional bronchoscopy, under Professor Pallav Shah.
Occupational and environmental respiratory disease, with particular emphasis on occupational asthma, occupational lung cancer and mesothelioma, under Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor and Professor Paul Cullinan.
Interstitial lung disease, under Professor Ron du Bois and Professor Athol Wells.
Sleep medicine, polysomnography and respiratory physiology, under Professor Michael Polkey and Professor Anita Simonds.
Current clinical and research activities
In addition to my inpatient responsibilities, I run specialist outpatient clinics for patients with:
lung cancer;
interstitial lung disease;
pulmonary arterial hypertension, including patients receiving endothelin-receptor antagonist therapy.
I am a member of the Hellenic Institute for the Study of Sepsis and have participated in the FERMIN, PRECISION, INSPIRE and REACT clinical trials.
Note concerning publications and full-text articles
Only publications written in English are listed below.
If you are unable to access an article through the publisher’s website, please contact me. To the best of my knowledge, the attached or linked PDF documents are legally available as free full-text versions.
If you are a copyright holder and believe that any document or link should be removed, please email me, and I will remove it promptly.
