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Biography

Titles

  • Directress, Department of Internal Medicine and Autoimmune Diseases, Euroclinic of ATHENS
  • Emeritus Professor, Harokopio University
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London)
  • Deputy Minister of Health, Greece

Specialty Areas & Research Interest

Specialty Areas

  • Internal Medicine
  • Systemic autoimmune diseases

Research Interest

  • ­ Clinical expression and Pathophysiology of Sjogren’s syndrome
  • ­ Stress and autoimmunity

Professional Experience

1981-1986                    Medical resident, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, university of Ioannina –Greece.

1984-1984                    Research fellow, Laboratory of Immunology-Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath U.K.

1986-1990                    Lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina-Greece.

1989-1990                    Visiting scientist, Clinical Immunology Branch of Clinical Studies, NIDR, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

1990-1995                    Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina-Greece.

1993-1995                    Directress of Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina-Greece.

1995-1996                    Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina-Greece.

1995-1998                    Directress, Department of Internal Medicine, Evgenidio University Hospital, Athens-Greece

1997-2014                    Professor of Internal Medicine –Immunology, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University,Athens-Greece.

2014 to present            Emeritus Professor, Harokopio University

2001 to present            Directress, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Euroclinic of Athens, Athens –Greece

2002 to present            Directress, Immunology laboratory, Euroclinic of Athens, Athens-Greece

2012-2013                    Deputy Minister of Health, Greece

Medical Degree

  • Medical School, University of Thessalonica, Greece  1974-1981

Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina-Greece, 1985

  • Doctoral Thesis with Honors, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece 1984
  • Research fellow Laboratory of Immunology-Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath U.K. 1984
  • Visiting scientist Clinical Immunology Branch of Clinical Studies, NIDR, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 1989-1990
  • English
  • French

1974-1975                    Foundation for National Scholarships

1989-1990                    International Fellowship “Fogarty”

1990                             Award of Hellenic Rheumatology Society (publ.No 24)

1991                            Scientists award.XIth European Workshop.Leysin Switzerland (publ.No 24).

2008                            Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London)

Educational material for patients

  • Kontogiani M, Filou T, Skopouli F N: «It is a heart matter», Harokopio University Athens
  • Skopouli FN:«Autoimmune diseases for patients» Moutsopoulos HM. Editions Kapon 1st edition, Athens 2005, 2nd edition, Athens 2007, 3d edition, Athens 2010
  • Skopouli FN: «Womens opinions for Rheumatoid arthritis» Hellenic Rheumatologic Society, Athens 2005. chapter « Every day practice » p.66
  • Skopouli FN: DVD «Corticosteroids; Can we minimize the side effects changing our nutritional habits»
  • Skopouli FN: The traditional diet is the best. 2011, Forma
  • Skopouli FN: Stress and autoimmune diseases. Feb 2016, Eurolife
  • Skopouli FN: Τhe reliability of health information from mass media. March 2019, Eurolife

 Chapters in books:

  • F N Skopouli: Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. Hellenic Seminars in Immunology, 1991.
  • F N Skopouli: Learning from the histopathological lesion. Hellenic Seminars in Immunology, 1994
  • F N Skopouli, H M Moutsopoulos: Sjogren’s syndrome. In “Cytokines in Autoimmune Diseases” Brennen and Feldman Eds. Umana Press, 1995
  • Tzioufas AG, Skopouli FN, Boumba D, Moutsopoulos HM: Vasculitis in primary Sjogrens syndrome. In: The Vasculitides. Ansell BM, Bacon PA, Lie JT, Yazici H (eds). Chapman and Hall, London UK 19: 277-82, 1996
  • Ramos-Casals M, Daniels T G, Fox R I, Whither J P, Fragoulis G E, Skopouli F N, Moutsopoulos H M: Sjogren’s syndrome. In “A Clinician’s Pearls and Myths in Rheumatology” Stone J H, Springer, 2009
  • Fragoulis G E and Skopouli F N: Liver involvement of Sjogren’s syndrome (chapter15). In Sjogren’ syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Ramos-Casals M, Stone J H, Moutsopoulos H M, Springer 2011
  • Goules A and Skopouli F N: Prognostic factors and survival of Sjogren’s syndrome (chapter 32). In Sjogren’ syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Ramos-Casals M, Stone J H, Moutsopoulos H M, Springer 2011

Scientific Articles:       More than 130 publications in scientific journals