Adonis-Spyridon Georgiadis was born on November 6, 1972, in Athens. He is married to Eugenia Manolidou and they have two children, Athanasios-Perseas and Anastasios-Alkaios. He is a graduate of the Department of History and Archeology of the Philosophical School of Athens.

In 1993, he took over the management of “GEORGIADIS-LIBRARY OF THE GREEKS” publications. In 1994 he founded the Center for Liberal Studies “HELLINIKI AGOGI”.

He was elected Member of Parliament in Athens B in the 2007 and 2009 elections with the LAOS political party.

In February 2012, he joined the New Democracy political party, surrendering his parliamentary seat. He was elected with New Democracy in Athens B in the national elections of 2012 and 2015.

In 2011 he served as Deputy Minister of Shipping in the Government of Mr. Loukas Papadimos and in 2013 as Minister of Health in the Government of Mr. Antonis Samaras.

On January 18, 2016, by the decision of the President of New Democracy, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, one of the two Vice-Presidents of New Democracy was appointed, with the purpose of controlling the parliamentary work.

On July 9, 2019, Adonis Georgiadis was sworn in as Minister of Development and Investments in the Government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a position he held for 4 years.

In the elections of 21 May 2023, Adonis Georgiadis was re-elected Member of Parliament for the Northern Sector of Athens. On June 27, 2023, he was sworn in as Minister of Labor and Social Security and on January 4, 2024, Adonis Georgiadis was sworn in as Minister of Health.

Gerasimos Siassos is Professor of Cardiology and Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University Medical School (2015-2016), President and Deputy President of the Athens Medical School (2019 – 2023) and President of the University Hospitals “Aretaiio” and “Aiginiteio” ​​(2019-2021).

Studies

• Faculty of Medicine, Greek Academy of Sciences
• Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) “Intensive Care Units – Cardiac Nursing”, EKPA School of Medicine
• Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) “Management of Healthcare Units”, Hellenic Open University
• Doctoral Diploma, School of Medicine EKPA
• Postgraduate training at Harvard University Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Professional Career

• He specialized in Cardiology at the First University Cardiology Clinic of the EKPA School of Medicine.
• He was unanimously elected to all academic ranks (Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Permanent Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor) at the Faculty of Medicine, EKPA.
• He worked at the A’ University Cardiology Clinic (Hippocrates Hospital) and was Head of the Atherosclerosis Unit and the Biochemistry, Immunology Unit
  and Molecular Biology in the same clinic.
• Founder and Head of the “Heart and Diabetes” Special Clinic for monitoring patients suffering from heart disease and diabetes
• He spearheaded the establishment and operation of the 3rd University Cardiology Clinic at “I SOTIRIA” Hospital, where he serves
• He is President of the “Heart and Diabetes” Working Group of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology

Administrative Work

• President of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2021 – 2023).
• Deputy President of the Medical School of Athens (2019 – 2021)
• President of the “Aretaiio” and “Aiginiteio” University Hospitals (2019 – 2021).
• Director of the Postgraduate Program “Cardiometabolic Medicine”, School of Medicine EKPA
• Member of the Board of Directors of the “Andreas Syggros” Hospital.
• He has been for many years an elected member of the Assembly of the School of Medicine, the Board of Directors of the School of Medicine, the Deanship of the School of Health Sciences, the Senate of EKPA.

International Presence

• Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiovascular Division, Boston, MA (2015 – 2016)
• Research Associate at Harvard – MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2015 – 2017)
• Member of the Research Oversight Board for the academic units of Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School (2016).
• Scientific associate until today of the Vascular Profiling Research Group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Educational Work

• He organized and teaches the undergraduate elective course “Molecular Cardiology” for 14 consecutive years and has been in charge of this course since 2011.
• He teaches in 6 undergraduate courses and 5 Postgraduate Programs of the School of Medicine of the EKPA.

Research and Writing Work

His research work focuses on: Molecular Cardiology, Atherosclerosis, Endothelial function, Diabetes Mellitus in patients with cardiovascular disease.

He is the author (or co-author) of over 360 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious international scientific journals (Journal of American College of Cardiology, International Journal of Cardiology, Current Medicinal Chemistry,
Ms.) with a total impact index Impact Factor > 1,400, and more than 14,000 references (citations) (h-index 58). He is Section Editor for Cardiovascular Diseases in the international biomedical journal Current Medicinal Chemistry (IF: 4.740). The stationery
his work includes the editing and writing of 20 books and journals on Cardiology. The study, on which he was first author from Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic and was published in 2018 in the journal JACC (IF: 24,090), was selected on
same year as one of the 100 best publications in cardiology.

He has participated as an invited speaker in important international conferences abroad and the presentations (abstracts) of his works exceed 200. He writes extensively in the Greek print and electronic press on medical issues of
his specialty as well as general education issues.

Takis Theodorikakos is the Minister of Development and Member of Parliament for the Southern Sector of Athens of the ND, where he was elected in the 2023 national elections.

He worked for 20 years as a political researcher, analyst and strategy consultant. He was a scientific partner and president of the company GPO SA, from 2000 to 2016.

He has presented important social and political research in Greece and abroad, at scientific conferences, workshops and mass media.

He holds a PhD in Public Policy at the University of Peloponnese, where he taught the School of Political and Social Sciences for 16 years.

He was Strategy and Communication Advisor to the President of the ND since October 2015 and Coordinator of Strategic Planning and Communication of the party, from October 2016 until the victorious election contests of May and July 2019, when he was elected as a Member of State of the ND.

In July 2019, he was appointed by the Prime Minister Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis Minister of the Interior.
In August 2021 Minister of Civil Protection.
In June 2024 Minister of Development.
He is a graduate of the Pedagogical Department of EKPA. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of EKPA in political science and sociology, specializing in electoral sociology.

He graduated from the Lyceum of the Ionideu Standard School.

He was born in 1964 in Piraeus.

He is married and has two children.

Theodore E. Tryfon was born in Mytilini – Lesvos. He graduated from Athens College of Greece and earned his BSc in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Southampton in UK. He continued his studies by earning his MBA from the City University of London Business School.

In 1990 he joined Henkel Hellas, Tryfon – Kastrinis S.A., a family owned business, which was sold to Henkel Germany in 1992.

The ELPEN Group has a turnover of €250,000,000 in 2021, with over 1200 employees and 3 production units in Pikermi, Attica. In November, the new 12,000 m2  production unit in Keratea Attica will operate mainly with an export orientation. ELPEN holds a leading position in the drug market, exports to 40 countries and has the largest Research, Training and Experimental Center for the Pharmaceutical Industry in Greece.

He is currently the President of the Panhellenic Union of Pharmaceutical Industries (PEF) since 2014, an association which represents 45 companies with 28 production sites throughout Greece. Since April 2019 he is a Member of the Board of Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV). In 2019 he became a member of the Board of Directors of Medicines for Europe, the European Association, which represents the European generic and value added medicines industry as a whole.

He is a graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens specializing in neurosurgery, holds a doctorate from the School of Medicine of the University of Athens and a master’s degree in Health Unit Management.

In June 2023, he was sworn in as Deputy Minister of Health.

He was Secretary General of Primary Care at the Ministry of Health from 2020 to 2023 and Coordinator of the Vaccination Program against Covid-19 “Operation Freedom”.

He has served as President of the National Central Health Procurement Authority, member of the Coordination and Monitoring Committee of the Government Policy to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, President of the Management Committee of the Health Insurance Sector (formerly TSAY – Health Insurance and Pension Fund) and Vice President of the Administrative Board Board of the ETAA (Unified Fund of Independent Employees).

As a neurosurgeon he worked in hospitals of the United Kingdom, in G.N. “Evangelism” and as Curator 1 at the Neurosurgery Clinic of the Children’s Hospital “St. Sophia”.

Dimitris Demos was born in Athens, Greece, and holds a degree in Chemistry from the University of Athens and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Fordham University in New York. Following his studies, he joined the family business of DEMO S.A. Pharmaceutical Industry working in various positions, applying his business vision in practice.

Today, Dimitris Demos is the Chief Executive Officer of DEMO S.A., one of the largest manufacturers of injectables in Europe, with an annual turnover of 250 million Euros, 4 state-of-the-art production units of 66,000 sq.m. and more than 1,700 employees. The company heavily invests in production and exports, which is why DEMO exports more than 80% of its annual production to 86 countries around the world, while, with the remaining 20% sold in Greece, it is the biggest supplier in terms of units, to Greek Hospitals.

DEMO SA is currently implementing the largest investment plan in the Pharmaceutical sector, with a completion horizon of 2027, which focuses on strengthening the company’s position internationally and entering sectors with high growth prospects, such as the development and production of raw materials and biotechnological medicines.

Mr. Dimitris Demos is also Vice President of the Panhellenic Union of the Pharmaceutical Industry, which represents the collective domestic pharmaceutical production in Greece.

CURRENT POSITION
Professor, Neurosurgery Clinic, EKPA, Evangelismos
Laboratory of Neurosurgical Anatomy, Evangelismos
Hellenic Center for NHK Research, Professor P. Kokkalis, Evangelismos
Treasurer of the Hellenic Neurosurgery Society (2013 – 2023)

VISITING PROFESSOR
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK

COMMITTEES
President of the Examining Committee of Neurosurgery Specialty (2020 – )
Neurosurgery Coordinator, Central Health Board (2023 – )
President of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Committee of AUS (2019 – )
Appeals Committee of the Ministry of Higher Education Health (2015 – )
Trauma Management Organization Committee of the Ministry of Health (2020 – )
Committee on Implantable Systems Min. Health (2015 – )

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Associate Professor NHK Clinic, EKPA, Evangelismos, 2011 – 2017
Assistant Professor NHK Clinic, EKPA, Evangelismos, 2004 – 2011
Supervising Neurosurgeon, NHK Clinic, Evangelismos, 1996 – 2004
Supervising Neurosurgeon, Hygeia Hospital, 1992 – 1995

POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION
Research Specialist, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, 1991 – 1992
Curator, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK, 1989 – 1991
Curator, AMH, Saint George’s Medical School, London, UK, 1988

SPECIALTY
Resident, Neurosurgery Clinic, Evangelismos, 1984 – 1988
Resident, Neurology Clinic, Children’s Hospital, 1983 – 1984
Resident, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital, 1983
Resident, Surgery Clinic, GN Corfu, GN Florina, 1981 – 1982

EDUCATION
Doctoral Dissertation, School of Medicine, EKPA, 1994
BA in Psychology, American College of Athens, 1988
Medical School Degree, EKPA, 1981
High school diploma, Moraitis School, 1975

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), 1993
Hellenic Society of Neurosurgery, 1993
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), 1993
Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), 1993

INTERESTS
Neuro-Oncology, Neuro-Anatomy, Hydrocephalus, Neuro-Intensivist,
Neurotrauma, Hemorrhagic Vascular Stroke,
Neuroepidemiology, History of Neurosurgery, Human Resource Management.

Anargyros Souliotis has a long experience in the field of Business, initially as an executive in large multinational companies and then as an Entrepreneur and CEO of a group of companies dealing in the field of health, construction of private and public projects, transport, and advertising.

What characterizes him is acumen and foresight, the persistence and determination to achieve the goals he has set in each of his business plans. Looking to the future, Mr. Souliotis is a source of inspiration for his team and also for his family who are active with him in their business group.

His goal is with the company HELLENIC COPPER to reach even higher the development of the company and its dynamics. It makes him particularly proud that through the application of the company’s products in health care areas, Public Health is defended as a whole and gives undivided priority to the protection of human life.

He has also been awarded for his philanthropic work in the field of Health through numerous donations to the National Health System (NHS) as a whole.

He is a graduate of the London School of Economics (BSc in economics), holds two postgraduate degrees MSc in Computing from Imperial College and MSc in Finance from Birkbeck College.

Mr. Zerdilas has many years of experience in the health sector as he has worked with the Group for more than 20 years, while during his professional tenure he has held senior and top management positions in other sectors such as shipping, investments, consulting services etc.

Since January 2020 he is the General Manager of the Group.

Graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Crete. Trained in the specialty of Orthopedic Surgery at the PAGN of Heraklion, and the “Agia Sophia” Children’s Hospital. Holder of the title of the specialty of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology and a certified trainer of adults. He maintains a private Orthopedic Clinic in the city of Heraklion.

Active member of the following scientific organizations and companies:

• President of the INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE PANHELLENIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2019 to date)
• Member of the Board of Directors PANHELLENIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2019 to date)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the National Anti-Doping Organization (E.O.K.A.N) (2019 to today)
• Member of the Hellenic Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (E.E.H.O.T.).
• Member of the Hellenic Society for the Study of Bone Metabolism (E.E.M.O.)
• Member of the Sports Medicine Society of Greece.

He was also:

• President of the Medical Association of Heraklion (I.S.H.) (2014 -2022)
• Vice-President of the Union of Football Clubs of Heraklion (EPSHI) (2008-2017)
• President of the Health Committee E.P.S.H. (2008-2017).

Professional Experience:

• Doctor of the U20 National Basketball Team, bronze medalist at the European Champioship 2023,
• Physician for the U20 National Basketball Team, Challenge Cup, FIBA ​​2021
• Physician for the Women’s National Basketball Team in its qualifiers

Eurobasket 2021

• Doctor, health organization manager at the U19 World Championship, 2019.
• Doctor of the Women’s National Football Team at the 2004 Olympic Games
• Doctor of the Disabled National Team (cycling)
• Doctor ERGOTELIS PAE (Superleague 2004-2005)
• Physician of the TALOS Disabled Sports Association

Sotirios Tsiodras is Professor and Director of the 4th Pathology Clinic of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He completed his medical studies at the Medical School of Athens and postgraduate studies at the Harvard University Medical School in the USA. He is currently board certified in Internal Medicine and Infections by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He holds a doctorate from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a master’s degree in Medical Sciences from the Harvard Medical School in the USA where he was a fellow of the clinical research program of the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) .

He is Scientific Advisor to the National Public Health Organization (2002-2024) and President of the National Committee of Experts on Public Health (2021-2024).

He is a member of the Advisory Forum of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Advisory forum, European CDC), a fellow of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and a fellow of the United States Infectious Diseases Society (IDSA fellow).

Currently, he carries out clinical and research work in Pathology and Infections at the Attikon University General Hospital and the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece.

Christos Zerefos, Secretary General, Academy of Athens. Head, Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of Athens. Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Visiting Professor, Universities of Minnesota and Boston. Samarbeidspartnere (Scientific Collaborator), University of Oslo. Climate Envoy for Greece. Member, Academy of Athens, Academia Europaea, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, European Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and other distinguished scientific societies. He has been known for his research in ozone, UV, ozone-climate interactions and climate extreme events. His research led to important contributions to international agreements such as the Montreal Protocol.

Has received a number of internationally recognized awards, among which the Order of Honour from the President of the Hellenic Republic and the French Government Decoration “Commandeur dans l’ordre de Palmes académiques”. Honorary Professor of the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Honorary Doctorate Degree of the University of Patras and of the University Division of the American College ANATOLIA. Global Ozone Award, UNEP on the 10th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, Award Certificate and Letter from UNEP and from IPCC for his substantial contribution to the reports of IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the former Vice President of USA, Al Gore. Excellence in Refereeing and The Yoram Kaufman Award of the American Geophysical Union, the Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences, UNEP Honourable Mentions. Honorary Member of the International Ozone Commission, the Gold Medal of the City of Thessaloniki, Badge of Honor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Award and “Ioan Ursu” Medal of the Balkan Physical Union, the “European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award” awarded to the National Observatory of Athens. In the past 20 years has acted as author, contributor or reviewer in almost all WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion and as reviewer for IPCC reports on aviation and on extreme events. Has supervised 55 masters and more than 30 PhD theses. More than 200 research papers, h-index 55 (from Web of Knowledge, March 2021).

His proposal to the Greek Government for the creation of a flexible international mechanism to protect natural and cultural heritage monuments from climate change has been included in the emblematic UN activities by H.E. the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres. This initiative has been supported by 80 countries, by UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization.

Has created from zero:

1. The Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of Athens (1978)
2. The Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1981)
3. The WMO Northern Hemisphere Ozone Mapping Centre (1991)
4. The Graduate Programme on Environmental Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1991)
5. The Center for Environmental Effects on Health , Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens (2003)
6. The UNESCO Chair on Natural Hazards in the Geosphere, the Hydrosphere and the Atmosphere (2006-2020)
7. The Geoastrophysics Museum, National Observatory of Athens (2008) (8) The Navarino Environmental Observatory in Messenia with the University of Stockholm and TEMES S.A. (2009).

Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy within the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Deputy Head of the Department of Health Policy, and Director of LSE Health. He is also Professor of Health Policy and Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Health Policy at Imperial College London.

His research interests concentrate on health systems and policy, addressing questions related to funding health care, private health insurance, pharmaceutical policies, the impact of EU law on health care systems, cancer care and policy and antibiotics. His work has been translated into Japanese, Russian, Greek and Spanish. He has more than 200 publications, including books, book chapters and articles in peer-review journals in the fields of public policy, health policy and economics and political science.

He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) and Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and Honorary NHS Consultant in Public Health (South East London NHS Strategic Health Authority).

He is a Visiting Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Affiliate Professor at Imperial College Business School and Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique in France. Professor Mossialos is a member of ASPHER’s Honours Committee, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Advisory Committee on Health Research and the Health, Demographic Change and Well-being Advisory Group for the Horizon 2020 Research Programme of the European Commission.

In 2010 he was awarded the Andrija Stampar medal by the Association of Schools of Public Health in Europe (ASPHER) and the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), for contributions to European public health. He received the 2002 and 2007 Baxter Awards from the European Health Management Association for the best publication in health policy and management in Europe and a Commended Prize in the 2002 BMA Medical Book Competition. In 2009, under his directorship, LSE Health and Social Care was honoured with the biennial Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. The Prize recognises outstanding achievement and excellence in UK universities and colleges and sits within the national honours system.

He has advised the WHO, European Parliament, European Commission (EC), World Bank, UK Office of Fair Trading, Ministries of Health and Social Affairs in Belgium, Brazil, China, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Sweden, and health insurance funds in Austria, Croatia, France, Hungary and South Korea. He was a member of the management board of the European Medicines Agency (2000-2003) and the board of the Hellenic National Medicines Agency (2000-2002) and contributed to the International Forum on ‘Common access to health care services’ co-ordinated by the health ministers of Sweden, the UK and New Zealand.

In 1996 Professor Mossialos founded LSE Health, currently LSE’s largest research centre with 60 staff working on a wide range of research, combining technical competence with policy mindedness. The Centre also fosters the training of young researchers and funds several doctoral and post-doctoral students; since 2004, the Centre has contributed more than £1.5 million of its own funds to support its PhD students. In 2009 the LSE’s Research Committee highlighted the Centre’s PhD programme and postdoctoral support systems as “exemplary”.

In 1998, Professor Mossialos co-founded the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a major health policy research and knowledge transfer programme. The Observatory is a partnership between the World Health Organization (Regional Office for Europe), the European Commission, the World Bank, the Governments of Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the French National Health Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale de l’assurance maladie des travailleurs salariés), the Veneto Region of Italy, LSE and LSHTM. He is currently Co-Director of the Observatory.

Professor Mossialos is associate editor (health policy) of the Journal Health Systems and Reform and of the European Heart Journal – Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes. In 1995 he founded Eurohealth, a quarterly health policy journal bridging academic scholarship and policy-making, and since 1998 has been editor in chief of the Health Systems in Transition reviews published by the WHO.

Professor Mossialos established the MSc in International Health Policy at LSE in 1999, which has attracted high quality students from more than 90 countries, and in 2009 a modular MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management, Europe’s only modular MSc in the field, directed at mid-career professionals who lack the flexibility to participate in a traditional MSc programme. In 2014, in cooperation with the European Society of Cardiology, he established a modular MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management. In 2014 he also established an interdisciplinary MSc in Global Health. He is planning to launch a dual executive Master programme in Global Health Policy in cooperation with the University of Chicago in 2018.

Expertise: antibiotics; cancer care and policy; European health policies; health systems and policy; funding health care; pharmaceutical policies; private health insurance

Lilian Venetia Vildiridis is an Economist specializing in Health policy, planning and financing.

Graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (BSc in Social Policy and Economics) and holder of a master’s degree (MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , is a PhD candidate at the School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

She was the Director of the special office of the Deputy Minister of Health Asimina Gaga (February 2022 – May 2023) and of the acting Minister of Health Anastasia Kotanidou (June 2023), adviser to the Deputy Minister of Health Asimina Gaga (September 2021 – January 2022), as well as an adviser to the Deputy Minister of Health Vasilis Kontozamanis (July 2019 – August 2021).

She has also been Coordinator of the organization for monitoring and accelerating the implementation of the actions and projects of the Recovery and Resilience Fund, which fall under the competence of the Ministry of Health, and President of the Monitoring Committee for the implementation of the project “Renovations and Modernization of Hospitals throughout Greece » of the Recovery and Resilience Fund. In 2020, a representative of Greece was appointed to the Board of Directors of the European Commission for the joint supply of vaccines and treatments against the disease COVID-19.

She has worked as a research fellow at the LSE Health and Social Care Research Center – London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her research interests focus, among others, on Health policy related to health care systems, with a particular emphasis on their performance assessment (HSPA), on the development of tools for the execution of planning and the management of human resources in Health (Health Workforce), in the formulation of indicators to measure the outcomes and experiences of patients receiving health services, as well as in policies that ensure equal access to health care services.

She has published research articles in international journals.

Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telematics of Harokopio University in the field of Information Systems and Simulation.

He was Rector of Harokopio University for a four-year term (9/2011 to 1/2016) and Dean of the School of Digital Technology.

Elected President of the Synod of Rectors of Greek Universities (1/2014 to 6/2014).

He is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sussex, UK and Manchester, UK.

He was the EU National Representative for ICT in Horizon 2020 (2014 to 2015).

He was General Secretary of Information Systems of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (2004 to 2009).

During his tenure, the information systems for real estate taxation (ETAK) and inventory (E9), new TAXISnet, electronic customs (ICISnet), audit services (ELENXIS), electronic information and service for pensioners, information via mobile telephony (M-TAXIS) were created.

Between 2019 and 2023, he served as General Secretary of Public Administration Information Systems of the Ministry of Digital Governance, contributing to the rapid development of the digital transformation of our country in recent years.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• December 2013 – Present | Joint Governor of the Interconnected Hospitals  G.N.P. ATHENS  ” HAIA SOFIA ” G.N.P. OF ATHENS ” P. & A. KYRIAKOU “
• October 2011 – December 2013 | Joint Governor of the Interconnected Hospitals G.N.P. OF ATHENS “AGIA SOFIA – CHILDREN’S PENDELIS” G.N.P. OF ATHENS « P & A KYRIAKOU »
• March 2010 – October 2011 | Commander G.N.P. ATHENS “HAIA SOFIA”
• December 2005 – March 2010 | General Manager  Athens Medical Group – Peristeri Clinic
• June 2005 – December 2005 | Head of Administrative Care BIOMEDICINE International Diagnostic Laboratories
• May 2002 – October 2004 | Deputy Governor  G.N. ATHENS “HIPPOKRATEO”
• October 2000 – May 2002 | Advisor to the Minister of Health, Ministry of Health
• October 1999–September 2000 | Advisor to the President G.N. ATHENS “THE EVANGELISM”
• October 1996–September 1997 | Assistant General Manager Bury Health Care NHS Trust Fairfield General Hospital

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

• September 1994–November 1995 | Master of Arts in Hospital Management, Nuffield Institute of Health, University of Leeds
• September 1991 – July 1994 | BA Combined Honors Health Studies & Management Science, University of Central Lancashire

Graduate of the Medical School of the University of Athens with a specialization in Pediatrics and subspecialty in Infectious Diseases. Holder of a Ph.D. from the Medical School of the University of Athens.

Director of Medical Services and Chair of the Hospital Infection Control Committee at the Children’s Hospital “Agia Sofia.” Coordinating Director at the 1st Pediatric Clinic, Children’s Hospital “Agia Sofia.”

Actively participates in scientific events and clinical studies. Author of several publications and lecturer in both postgraduate and undergraduate programs.

Serves as a member of medical evaluation and selection councils for the Greek National Health System of the 1st Regional Health Authority. Former representative of the Children’s Hospital “Agia Sofia” at the National Public Health Coordination Committee, member of the COVID-19 Management Task Force at the Children’s Hospital “Agia Sofia,” member of the committee for implementing protocols and supervising pediatric COVID-19 patient care in children’s hospitals under the 1st Regional Health Authority, and member of the committee for managing acute hepatitis of unknown etiology. Active member of the Hospital’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, Drug Committee, and Scientific Council.

Participates as a member of editorial boards of scientific journals, organizational and scientific committees of conferences, and the Ethics and Deontology Committee of the Institute of Child Health.

Member of scientific organizations such as the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), the Hellenic Society for Infectious Diseases, the Hellenic Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and the Scientific Organization for Child and Adolescent Health.

Τheodoros Chamakiotis was born οn 1975 and he was graduated from the School of Public Administration and Economics of TEI Athens University with studies in the Management of Health and Welfare Units. He holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Health Unit Management of Social Sciences Department of the Hellenic Open University.

He has more than 20 years of experience in Health Care Providers, holding positions of Management as well as positions of responsibility in the subjects of Finance and Management. He belongs to the Athens Medical Group workforce from 2009 as General Manager of Athens Medical Center – Phychiko Clinic. Since 2019, he is the General Manager in Athens Medical Center.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Private Hospitals Association (HPHA) and in October 2021 was elected as President.

Dimitris Vassilopoulos holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a Master of Science degree in Digital Communications from King’s College London (University of London), as well as postgraduate degrees in Business Administration from the Hellenic Society of Business Administration and in Project Management (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.

From February 1996 to January 2003 he worked for BULL S.A., the Greek subsidiary of the French Groupe Bull, as Project Manager in the Integrated Project Division and subsequently as the Marketing & Business Development Manager determining solutions and partnerships in the verticals of Public Finance.

In February 2003 he moved to the Business Development Dept. of Public Sector Division for Intracom/Intrasoft Group, undertaking the role of the Commercial Manager for the Greek Public Sector vertical markets of Health, Social Security and Public Finance, while since 2008 his role upgraded taking the responsibility as Business Development & Sales Director for all vertical domains of the Public Sector market in the geography of Europe, Middle East & Africa.

As of 1/1/2019, by undertaking the role of Marketing & Sales Senior Director of Netcompany-Intrasoft he focused on the Product Management & Marketing of the business-specific Tax, Customs, Social Security and Compliance Products, as well as their market positioning, in close cooperation with Netcompany Group teams, upon the acquisition of Netcompany-Intrasoft.

In early 2023 he assumed the duties of Executive Director of the Public Sector Business Unit, being mandated to secure its operational performance and continuous growth, while strategizing for the adoption of innovative and differentiating new business and technical competencies, for the expansion into new markets sectors and countries/geographies and for the strengthening of its human capacity force with continuous qualification upgrade.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

2008 – till

Group of Pharmaceutical Companies TSETIS   ( UNI-PHARMA and INTERMED )

Board of Directors / Vice President

Senior Operations Director and Business Excellence Coordinator

Responsibilities

Coordination of all Group’s Business improvement projects

Key negotiator-liaison with Group’s suppliers

Key Group’s representative to National Health Authorities

Development and licensing of new innovative pharmaceutical products

Achievements

Acting as  facilitator,  he contributed to the  achievement of Committed to Excellence recognition for INTERMED ( one of  Group’s companies ). As  key responsible for the project of new plant development,  he succeeded a great performance.

Additionally, acting as key responsible person in Unipharma he led  the above Company to recognitions such as :

• Recognized for Excellence (Four Stars),  ( 2011) (Five Stars)(2013 & 2015)
• Commitment to Excellence  ( 2009)

UNI-PHARMA S.A

2004- 2008

Technical Director  and Quality Coordinator

Responsibilities

• Operations Management
• Business Development
• Pricing
• Relations with health authorities
• Supplies and  Suppliers Relation Management
• Quality systems development coordinator

Implementation of  Key performance results such as :

• Reduction of industrial cost ( approx. 15 % during the last  3 years )
• Implementation of environmental management system according to ISO:14001:2004 specification

1997-2004 

Plant and Quality Assurance Manager

Achievements

• Plant renovation
• Development and implementation of quality management system according to ISO9001:2000 specification
• Annual quality award granted by ECO Q Journal

1995-1997

Production Manager

Achievements

• Development and implementation of annual business plans key performance results
• Award for environmental friendly methods of production and products

1991-1995

Quality Control Manager

Achievements

• Development and implementation of quality assurance system according to IS09002:1994 specification

 1986-1991      

R & D Manager

Achievements

• Development of a great number of pharmaceutical products ( existing in the market  till now and  remarkable profit generators )

EDUCATION AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2009    Validator of European Foundation Quality Model

2007-2008   Master in Business Administration (MBA),New York College, Athens

1997   Lead Auditor in Quality Management Systems

1984   Licence to practice in Pharmacy

1984-1985   Post graduated studies in pharmaceutical technology University of Athens

1978-1983   Bachelor in Pharmacy, Dept. of Pharmacy, University of Athens

RESEARCH OUTPUT

2001 ISO 9001:2000 “Customer satisfaction in Pharmaceutical Industry”

Paper published in the proceedings of 10^th Pan-Hellenic Pharmaceutical Congress.

1998 General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Ministry of Development)

Research project on “Development of biotechnological methods for the production of taxol and relevant metabolites”.

1994 General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Ministry of Development)

Research project on “Recording analysis and development of secondary metabolites structurally and functionally relevant to taxol”.

1990 “Excipient uses in controlled release per as preparations” research paper Pharmakeftiki, January 1990. The paper was presented at the annual educational seminar of the Pan- Hellenic Pharmaceutical Society in January 1990

1989 “Comparative study of two dissolution for indomethacin suppositories from fatty and water-soluble bases” research paper published in International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol.55, pp. 217-220

1988 “In vitro dissolution study of nifedipine from hard gelatine capsules and tablets”, paper published in proceedings of the fourth Pan –Hellenic Pharmaceutical Congress, Athens

1984 “In vitro study of melting time of suppositories compared with the active ingredients contained”, paper published in the proceedings of the fourth Pan – Hellenic Pharmaceutical Congress, Athens

SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE

Participation in a large number of seminars and conferences (home and abroad) on issues  such as :   business excellence : meaning and implementation in business daily life,  innovation and practice, pharmaceutical sector future challenges, how to motivate  your team   etc.

SKILLS              

Languages:

• Greek (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (Sorbonne 1er Degree)
• Italian (beginner)

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Greek Society of Management,

Member of the Control Release Society,

Member of Hellenic Management Association

Member of the Pan-Hellenic Pharmaceutical Society.

Member of SFEE – Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical companies

Member of SEV- Federation of Greek Industries   

Member of Arab Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

Ms. Karpodini has studied Business Administration with a specialization in accounting and finance at the Athens University of Economics and Business and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

She has seventeen years of management experience, both in the private sector as a senior business executive, and in public administration for the last ten years as a special advisor to the General Accountant of the State of the Ministry of Finance.

In her professional career, she has been involved in the financial control of SAs, balance sheets-accounts of public bodies, while she was responsible for the Debt Repayment Program of General Government Bodies 2012-2014 as a special advisor to the GLC.

Mr. Pentafragkas obtained his Pharmacy Degree at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Cluj-Napoca, 1985).

He started his professional career, as a Medical Representative in ELPEN Pharmaceuticals. After gaining significant expertise in various corporate roles, for the past decade he serves as the Corporate Affairs Director of the ELPEN Group.

He also serves as Executive director of the board of the Panhellenic Union of Pharmaceutical Industry (PEF).

Eirini Agapidaki is a Psychologist, with an MSc in Health Promotion and Education from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; and a PhD in Health Psychology from the same university. She has also been specialized in matters of prevention of mental disorders and promotion of mental health. In addition, she has many years of teaching and research experience in the fields of public health policy, public health research methodology and mental health promotion – in the context of national, European and international research programs. She has worked for many years as a research associate at the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In the recent years she was elected and served as a Lecturer in Public Health, at the Medical School of the European University of Cyprus. She has written and published research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, while she has presented the results of her research papers at many national and international conferences.

In 2019, she resigned from her academic role in order to take up her duties as the Special Secretary for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors (at the Ministry of Migration and Asylum) where she remained until 2022. During her tenure at the Special Secretariat for Unaccompanied Minors all the unaccompanied minors were transferred from the reception and identification centers of the islands and Evros (more than 2.000 children in total) in suitable accommodation structures in the mainland and in other Member-States of the EU through the relocation program and the reunification process. Also, the framework for the age assessment improved significantly, to properly ensure that those placed in child-protection structures are indeed minors; protective custody was abolished by law – a shameful practice that Greece had been following for twenty years with condemnations from the European Court and strict recommendations from the Council of Europe. Additionally, the National Emergency Response Mechanism for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors for early locating and hosting unaccompanied minors who are found homeless throughout the territory, was established. This mechanism is an important instrument for preventing the disappearance of minors and is something that our country should have implemented years ago. Likewise, the places in suitable long-term accommodation facilities increased and thus we finally managed to have 2.000 places in such structures; a goal that our country already had in 2017. Last but not least, the relocation program for unaccompanied minors to other EU Member-States was implemented in cooperation with International Organizations and the European Commission, immediately ensuring effective protection (more than 1.300 unaccompanied minors and 1.400 persons were relocated – of which 620 were seriously ill children that moved to Germany together with their nuclear family members). Thus, from the over 5.500 unaccompanied minors recorded in our country in 2019, we now have a stable number that does not exceed 2.500, ensuring effective protection ecosystem.

At the end of December 2022, she assumed her duties as Secretary General of Public Health, implementing, among other things: the pediatric digital child book, so that our country can finally have for the first time official and reliable data on the vaccination coverage of children; while at the same time extensive vaccinations were organized and implemented in vulnerable population groups. In addition, the new plan called “Spyros Doxiades” was developed for the prevention, protection and health promotion of the main chronic diseases – which includes over 20 actions of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, with a budget of over 300 million euros. This is actually the first time in the history of our country, that an organized and systematic prevention system for the entire population is being implemented. Indicatively, the actions concern prevention programs of the main risk factors; such as the prevention and fight against childhood obesity in children and adults. At the level of secondary prevention, the “Fofi Gennimata” program is already being implemented, thanks to which more than 449.000 digital mammograms have already been performed and more than 28.000 women have been identified in time with findings. Next is: the cervical cancer prevention program (for 2.5 million women aged 21-65 with free screening tests-pap, HPV-DNA test, colposcopy and biopsy), the colon cancer prevention program (for 2.8 million men and women, aged 50-69 with a free colonoscopy examination), the cardiovascular disease prevention program (for 5.5 million women and men aged 30-70 with free lipid profile blood tests and early detection of cardiovascular disease risk and metabolic syndrome), but also the lung cancer prevention program in people at high risk, as well as the skin cancer prevention program in high-risk groups.

Since July 2023 she serves as the Alternate Minister of Health and as a member of the Greek Parliament.

She is a Doctor, Pediatrician with a postgraduate degree in Public Health. Her specialization in Public Health Social Medicine has been recognized.

She speaks English and Italian. She is married and the mother of two children.

She was hired in 2003 in the 1st Health District. She has been serving in the Central Service of the Ministry of Health since 2009, almost exclusively in the Directorate of Public Health, in the Department of Public Health Physicians of the NHS.

She holds positions of responsibility from 2013 until today, as Head of Department, mainly with the aim of prevention, protection and promotion of Public Health. From 2018 and for three years she served as Deputy Head of the Directorate of Public Health and Environmental Hygiene.

She is a member of National Committees and Committees of the Central Health Council, as well as European working groups and Committees for Public Health issues.

Participates in European Funding Programs and Joint Actions for Public Health. She is also a member of the European Public Health Association, while he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Panhellenic Association of Public Health Physicians ESY.

President EINAP

Chairman of the Board of Directors Society of Pathology of Greece (E.P.E.)

Coordinator Director of the 3rd Pathology Clinic, G.N.A. “C. birth”
Scientific Manager of the Lipid Clinic, G.N.A. “C. birth”
President of the Scientific Council G.N.A. “C. birth”
President of the Supreme Disciplinary P.I.S.
Vice President of OENGE

MEDICAL SERVICE
First Experience in Hospitals, clinics, etc.
1) From 21-04-83 to 20-04-84 in G. N. Limnos (ND 67/68 Field Service)
2) From 02-05-84 to 09-07-84 in G. N. Limnos (Law 1057/80)
3) From 09-07-84 to 15-01-85 in G. N. Limnos (Obtaining specialty)
4) From 22-01-85 to 19-12-88 at G.N. A. “ELPIS” (Obtaining a specialty)
5) From 08-12-89 to 13-05-93 at G. N. A. “ELPIS” as Supervisor of the 2nd Social Security
6) From 14-05-93 to 28-10-98 at G.N.A. “G.Gennimatas” as Editor. B’ SYSY
7) From 29-10-98 to 04-04-06 at G.N.A. “G. Gennimatas” as Editor. A. YOU
8) From 04-04-06 to 01-12-08 at G.N.A. “G. Gennimatas” as Assistant.
Director (Prot. No. Y10a/13335/4-4-2006 Dep. Ministry of Health & Social Affairs)
9) From 01-12-08 Director of the 3rd Pathology. Clinic of G.NA “G. Gennimatas”

Dr. Evangelos Manolopoulos recently assumed the duties of president of the National Pharmaceutical Organization (EOF). He is a Professor of Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine at the Department of Medicine of the Democritus University of Thrace (DPTH) in Alexandroupolis and at the same time offers his services at the University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis. He graduated from the Patision Lyceum of Leon in 1979. He received a BA in Biology in 1984 and a PhD in Pharmacology from the Medical School of the University of Patras in 1992. He also worked for almost a year at the Medical School of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (1989-1990). Between 1992 and 1995 he did postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in the USA. He then worked for 3 years (1995-98) at the Medical School of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Since December 1998 Dr. Manolopoulos is a member of the Faculty of Medicine Thrace. He has authored over 150 foreign language publications in peer-reviewed journals, including two in the New England Journal of Medicine, which have received a total of more than 4600 citations (H factor 36). His current research interests focus on personalized and precision medicine and include basic, translational and clinical research in pharmacogenomic and epigenetic analysis of drugs used in cardiac disease, anticoagulation, diabetes, oncology and psychiatric diseases. He has received a total of over 3 million euros in competitive funding for his research. Also, Mr. Manolopoulos has a diverse academic work while he is, among others:

– Head of the Unit for Therapeutic Measurement of Drugs and Prohibited Substances of the University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis (PGNA).

– Director of the “Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics” Master’s Program of the ITH, which was founded in 2006.

– Director and Scientific Officer of the “Center of Excellence for Pharmacological Studies and Precision Medicine” (IMPReS) of the ITH.

– Member of the Board of the Hellenic Society of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (where he has also served as president 2017-2021)

– Past president of the European Society for Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy (ESPT) (was president 2020-2022)

– Representative of Greece in the European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) continuously for the last 12 years.

– Member of the Editorial Board of: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics

– Evaluator of collaborative research proposals submitted to the European Union (2007 – 2022) and several other Greek and international organizations over the last 20 years.

– During the SARS-CoV2 pandemic, Dr. Manolopoulos focused his attention on the study of the coronavirus and monitoring the relevant developments. In fact, he has already published 3 papers on possible ways of early diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of this modern scourge, while throughout the pandemic he fought every day to properly inform the public about vaccines and anti-pandemic drugs through dozens of television and radio interviews and articles in newspapers.

He is the co-founder and Quality Assurance Director of the certification and audit body HEALTHCERT.

He is a graduate of the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Metsov, holder of a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and a master’s degree in Oenology and Viticulture from the Agricultural University of Athens.

He has worked as a Chief Inspector of Management Systems and Products since 2015 in national and international certification bodies with a wide inspection scope and with experience in the Development and Accreditation of bodies and Certification Schemes and as a Production and Quality Manager in manufacturers of Medical Technology and Diagnostic Products.

Nikos Marathias assumed the duties of Chief Operating Officer of Bioiatriki Group in April 2023 in order to contribute to the further development of the Group by focusing on strategic planning, innovation and optimization of business operations. Emphasizing the continuous integration of innovative technologies at the equipment level and the acceleration of the company’s digital transformation, it focuses not only on offering integrated Healthcare services but also on the continuous improvement of the overall experience of each examinee. Mr. Marathia’s leadership approach focuses on collaboration and team empowerment, creating inclusive work teams governed by diversity, equality and respect.

Mr. Marathias has international experience in the health field holding senior management positions in multinational companies in Europe and Africa. Most recently, he held the position of Managing Director of Core Diagnostics at Abbott. From that role he managed to achieve significant successes in his area of ​​responsibility, implementing integrated strategic planning. Through organizational redesign, he led his team to achieve a doubling of sales, focusing on customer satisfaction by providing innovative and personalized solutions. At the same time, he managed to achieve faster growth rates of the company’s profitability, turning it into a financially sound organization.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a master’s degree in Biotechnology, while in recent years he has attended extensive seminars on developing leadership skills and strategic planning.

Dr. Thanassis Lopatatzidis holds a PhD (Bristol University) in Health Services Research, Statistics & Management & an MSc in Actuarial Statistics (University of Sheffield). He was Project Manager – Research Associate (1993 -96) & then Lecturer in Bristol University (1997 – 02). 

In Greece worked as Managing Director of a Reengineering program (1999 -2004) for the Social Security Sickness Fund (namely IKA), and then as an external consultant in UK for a joint venture between CAS Services ltd & AXA insurance for NHS Direct. At the end of 2007 joins the leading primary healthcare provider in Greece (BioMedicine Group) as a General Manager responsible for commercial function and key operational excellence, engaging with Private Health Insurance developing & managing several new and innovative business lines, digital tools and reimbursement policies.

In Oct 2016 joined Affidea, a leading European outpatient care provider and now as a Commercial Director is leading the deployment of Affidea’s outpatient & commercial B2B strategy including the engagement & commercial excellence together with Private Health Insurers the Pharmaceutical Industry and other commercial partners. Contributing to a significant extent in the organic growth of the company.

He has a robust 25 years of expertise in the healthcare industry.

Dr. Lopatatzidis has been an invited speaker in several national & international conferences & workshops. His scientific & managerial work includes more than 55 national & international programs & studies. He has published 2 books & more than 30 articles & book chapters in peer review journals & books. He is fellow or member in several scientific or professional bodies such as Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (Actuarial Chapter), Member of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment, Hellenic Health Managers Association etc.

Dimitris Vartzopoulos was born on 11/11/1957, the son of Chrysostomos, a craftsman and Fanis Lichiridas, a philologist from Asvestochori, Thessaloniki. He is married to Fotini Mavromatis, RN and has three children, Alexandros, a lawyer, Chrysostomos, a student and Danae, a student too.

He graduated with Honours (19 9/10) from the 2nd High School for Boys of Kavala, was the first to enter the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1975, was a scholarship holder of the ICF throughout his studies and graduated with Honours (9) in 1981. He specialized in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne and was awarded a PHD by the University of Bonn in 1990. He was a Scientific Associate of University Clinics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for many years. He worked and still works as a private Psychiatrist and Scientific Manager of a private Psychiatric Clinic.

He speaks German, English and a little French.

He was involved in student trade unionism, DAP-NDFK, ONNED and assumed positions of responsibility at all levels of New Democracy organizations (President of the Local, President of the Prefectural, President of the Thessaloniki Administrative Council, Deputy Secretary of Political Planning).

In the Public Administration he served as the Governor of the Health Region of Macedonia from 2004 to 2009.

He also served as Deputy Minister of Health and Social Solidarity in the Papademos Government in 2011/2012.

In 2012 he was called by Antonis Samaras to establish the General Secretariat for Government Coordination, which he headed for about 2. 5 years!

In the parliamentary elections of July 2019, he is elected MP for the first time.

In the elections of May 2023 he was re-elected as the first Member of Parliament in the 2nd Constituency of Thessaloniki.

After the June elections, the Prime Minister and President of the New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed him as Deputy Minister of Health.

Andreas Panagiotopoulos was born in Karaiika, Achaia.

He studied medicine at the University of Patras and specialized in cardiology. From 1994 to 2010 he worked as a specialist cardiologist as the head of the Cardiorespiratory Center of Patras, while from 1997 to 2002 he worked at IKA as a treating physician and auditor. In 1999, he was vice-president of the board of directors of the medical association I.K.A. Patras.

In 2018, he was appointed by the 6th Y.P.E. scientific manager of the Health Center of the Northern Sector of Patras. In the same year, he was elected vice-president of the scientific staff association of P.F.Y.

He has been elected and has served as president of the unified waste management body as well as president of the Development K.T.A.D.A. S.A. He was also the managing director of Development ACHAIA S.A., a member of the board of directors of the protection management organization Kotychios Strofilias and a member of the institutions committee of K.E.D.E.

In September 2015, he became a candidate for parliament with SY.RIZ.A. in elections held with a list and without a preference cross.

Since 2015, he has been consistently elected as a member of the Prefectural Committee of Achaia of SY.RIZ.A. and in 2022 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of SY.RIZ.A. – Progressive Alliance.

In the parliamentary elections of 2019, a third MP for Achaia is elected, a seat that was eventually held by the president of the party, Alexis Tsipras.

Today he lives in Patras and works as the Director of Cardiology at the Northern Sector Health Center of Patras, remaining an active citizen participating in the political events of Achaia with the interest of the region and the well-being of its citizens in mind.

Olga Balaoura Chief Executive Officer of the 1st Health Region of Greece. She has also served the healthcare system as Saint Savvas’ s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of the Board for five years. She is an experienced Healthcare Specialist and her background concerns hospital and health care industry transformation. Olga is also designated by the Minister of Health as the country’s representative for Comprehensive Cancer Centers in supranational or international organizations and collective bodies.

She has more than 15 years of experience in the public health care sector. In the past (2010-2014) she was CEO and President of the Board at Konstantopouleio General Hospital. She has been doing systematic consulting since 2014 at the subject which concerns National Health Care System Transformation.

She worked as an expert consultant of the World Health Organization and Giz (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) concerning the Reform and Support Programme for the National Health System of Greece.

Olga is a PhD candidate at Democritus University of Thrace and she has 2 Masters Degrees. The first master concerns National and European Administration from Panteion University and the second one concerns Health Economics, Policy and Management from London School of Economics with a Scholarship from the Onassis Foundation.

Evangelia Koraki studied Chemistry at the University of Athens. She has more than 15 years of expertise and management experience in the field of Medical & Regulatory Affairs in global pharmaceutical companies such as Roche, Warner Lambert, Pfizer, Actelion Pharmaceuticals, and 20 years in senior positions in clinical research. She has contributed to the development of numerous products, including orphan drugs, in international markets, and has deep knowledge of regulatory affairs processes at a national, European, and international level. She participates in many working groups relevant to clinical research in Greece, with the aim of promoting and harmonizing it with European standards.

She has been a founding member and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of CROs – HACRO, since its establishment in 2013. In 2017, she was elected as President of HACRO and holds this position to this day.

Spiros Apostolopoulos is a graduate of the University of Athens, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and has a Master’s Degree in Administration and Economics of Health Services, from the National School of Public Health.

He is Hospital Manager of the General University Hospital “ATTIKON” since January 2020. He has been Hospital Manager of the General Hospital of Trikala and the G.U.H. “ATTIKON” (2004-2008), member of the Board of the General Hospital of Larissa and Director of Health-Welfare of the Region of Thessaly as well as General Manager of the Athens Medical Center, Maroussi Clinic.

He is a Visiting Professor of the former National School of Public Health (ESDY) and the Department of Public Health Policies (as successor of the National School of Public Health) of UNIWA.

He has been Research Associate of the Department of Health Economics of National School of Public Health (1997 -2012) and has participated as an expert in Health Policy and Management and Economics of health services in numerous conferences, forums and workshops.

He is General Secretary of the Hellenic Society for the Administration of Health Services (EEDYY) and a member of the Hellenic Scientific Society for Health Policy and Economics.

Nikos Chatzinikolaou was born on October the 9th 1962, in Alexandroupolis, Evros. He started working as a journalist in 1983 covering education topics in the newspaper “MESIMVRINI”.

In 1984, he received the “Botsi” award for journalism. He then started to cover political issues. Meanwhile, he started his collaboration with the Sunday edition of the newspaper “Akropolis”, the newspaper “Ethnos” and the magazines “ENA” and “STATUS”.

In 1987, he started working for the newly founded radio “ATHINA 9,84”. At the same time he became member of the founding committee of the station. He also temporarily worked at the radio stations “ERA”, “SKY 100,4”, “PLANET” and “STATUS FM”.

In 1989, he started his collaboration with MEGA TV station. From 1998 until 2003 he was General Director of News and Information department of the station.

From 2003 until 2007, he collaborates with ALPHA TV Station, as Executive Vice President and General Director of News and Information department and later, as Chairman and CEO.

From April 2007 until October 2011 he collaborates with ALTER TV station.

In September 2007 he founded along with Andreas Kouris the «Real Group», which owns the radio station “Real Fm 97.8” in Athens, “Real Fm 107.1” in Salonica, “Ellinikos 93,2” in Athens, the weekly (every Sunday) newspaper “Real News” and the news portal “Real.gr”.

In 2012 Nikos Chatzinikolaou created his own personal site-blog “Enikos.gr” and the financial news blog “Enikonomia.gr”.

From September 2013 until June 2016, he collaborates with STAR Channel TV Station.

Since January 2017, he is the anchorman of the main news edition of ANT1 TV Station.

Nikos Chatzinikolaou is board member of European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA).

She studied Political Sciences at the Department of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and media training at the BBC Academy. She is a journalist, political analyst, TV anchorwoman until 2011 and General Manager of the think tank Institute of Democracy, Konstantinos Karamanlis until 2014.

She is an experienced and distinguished media trainer for “tradional” and cyber crisis management in companies such as: PETROLA HELLAS, HELLENIC PETROLEUM (ELPE), LAFARGE BETON, HALYPS BUILDING MATERIALS, ITALCEMENTI GROUP, REGENCY CASINO THESSALONIKI, HSBC, CREDIT AGRICOLE LIFE, DELTA, KATSELIS, GOODY’S, EVEREST, CARREFOUR, GENESIS FARMA and others.

Born and raised in Athens, Konstantinos Rompotis entered journalism in 1998 as a business editor at Imerissia daily financial newspaper.

Since then, he has worked in several newspapers, radio stations, magazines, and news portals as a financial editor and a columnist.

Since 2008 he has joined Real Media Group. He currently serves as Chief Editor at Real news newspaper.

He speaks English, German and French.

Emilia Stathakou is an accredited editor of the Ministry of Health at Realnews and Realfm and Editorial Director at Oloygeia.gr.

She has over 30 years of experience in medical reporting and has collaborated with print, web and radio media, as well as with the Athens Medical Association as the head of the Press Office.

She is a graduate of the Department of Psychology, the Philosophical School of Athens.