Speakers

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  Polychronis Antonitsis Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  

  Polychronis Antonitsis

  Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  Dr Polychronis Antonitsis graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine in 1998. He completed his postgraduate studies (MSc in Medical Research Technology – 2002) and Doctorate Degree (PhD – 2007) at the same School. He performed his Specialty Training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Cardiothoracic Department, AHEPA University Hospital and at John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford. He is a Board-Certified Cardiothoracic Surgeon since 2011. He was appointed Lecturer in Cardiac Surgery at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine in 2012 and since 2020 he holds the position of Associate Professor. His main research interest focuses on stem cell research and minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation, where he holds the position of the Secretary of the Minimal Invasive Extracorporeal Technologies International Society. He is the co-editor of 6 books and 18 book chapters. He is the author of 90 peer-reviewed articles published in journals indexed in PubMed/Medline with over 2,000 citations (h-index:22).

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  Iakovos Michailidis Vice Rector of International Relations and Outreach, Lifelong Learning and Student Care at Aristotle University
  

  Iakovos Michailidis

  Vice Rector of International Relations and Outreach, Lifelong Learning and Student Care at Aristotle University

  Iakovos Michailidis serves as a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the School of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). During the academic year 2012-2013, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. In the academic year 2019-2020, he received a Fulbright scholarship and was a Visiting Researcher at George Washington University in the USA. That same year, he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. He has worked as an Expert for the Western Balkans at the European Economic and Social Committee of the European Union. He is the Vice President of the Supervisory Council of the Greek General State Archives. He is also the head of the Research Center of the Society for Macedonian Studies and a member of many Greek and European scientific networks and organizations, such as the European thematic history network Clioh/Cliohnet. He is an honorary member of the “Parnassos” Literary Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Historical Museum and the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace

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  Nicolas Foroglou Professor of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine of Aristotle University
  

  Nicolas Foroglou

  Professor of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine of Aristotle University

  Nicolas Foroglou, MD, PhD Professor of Neurosurgery, has graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1993. Following his military service in the General Hospital of Hellenic Air Force for 2 years and his community medical service in the mountains of North Greece for one year, he trained in Neurology and graduate with the Diploma of Clinical Neurology from the Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL, Queen Square, London. Thereafter he returned in Thessaloniki, Greece to complete his neurosurgical residency in the AHEPA University Hospital. After being certified from the National Board in Neurosurgery and the European Board (EANS) in 2001 he moved to Boston, USA for a yearly fellowship on neuroncology at the Brigham & Women Hospital, affiliated hospital Harvard University, where he was trained in awake craniotomy, intraoperative imaging and neuromonitoring. After that he did a second fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery (epilepsy, movement disorders, pain, and spasticity) in the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland (CHUV) under the guidance of Professor JG Villemure (2002).
  Elected in the Aristotle University School of Medicine as Lecturer in 2003, he is appointed currently as Professor in Neurosurgery and chair the Department of Neurosurgery at AHEPA University, Thessaloniki, Greece. His clinical activity is focused on brain tumors, aneurysms and pituitary adenomas. He is on of the founders and currently coordinator of the English speaking undergraduate program of the Medical School.
  He is currently leading 3 research programs (brain mapping, glioma properties on nanoscale and intraoperative ultrasound), has published 70 articles in international peer reviewed journals and authored 46 chapters book in international editions. He has been invited lecturer in more than 125 international congresses and Institutions (Montpellier, Burdenko Institut, Istanbul, Toledo in 2017)
  Nicolas Foroglou is member of many international neurosurgical societies (Congress of Neurological Surgeons-USA, member of the Tumor section of CNS/AANS-USA, Societe de Neurochirurgie de langue francaise, European Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, European Association of Neuro-Oncology, Low Grade Glioma European Network). He served as President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society and Treasurer of The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.

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  Christos Helmis Branding Strategist at Colibri
  

  Christos Helmis

  Branding Strategist at Colibri

  I am privileged to have worked for ground breaking projects and stellar clients such as Beta Simulation Solutions, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training -Cedefop, Aristotle University School of Medicine-the AUSoM International Programme, Plin Nanotechnologies, BioMerge, Dreams4Cars, the “Many Stories, One Heart” destination branding of Thessaloniki, to name only a few.

  From such a wealth of experience and gained expertise, I now draw to guide younger strategists, copywriters and designers to reach their full potential, as they seek to provide clients with consequential, outstanding branding.