Sotirios Sotiriou
Associate Professor of Embryology and Director of the Laboratory of Histology and Embryology at the Department of Medicine, University of Thessaly.
Sotirios Sotiriou is Associate Professor of Embryology and Director of the Laboratory of Histology and Embryology at the Department of Medicine, University of Thessaly. He received his Medical Degree from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1994. In 2007, he was awarded his PhD by the Department of Medicine of the University of Thessaly for his doctoral dissertation entitled “Comparative Immunohistochemical Study of the Expression of Heat Shock Proteins p70 and p90 in Placental Chorionic Villi in Missed Miscarriages and Normal Full-Term Pregnancies”.
He is a medical doctor and specialist Obstetrician-Gynaecologist, with further specialization in Maternal–Fetal Medicine. His scientific and professional profile combines academic work in embryology with clinical expertise in obstetrics, gynaecology and prenatal diagnosis.
Professor Sotiriou is a member of several scientific and professional societies, including the Hellenic Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the Hellenic Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the Hellenic Society of Andrology, the Hellenic Society for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy, the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Great Britain, the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, and the Medical Association of Larissa. He also serves as an examiner for the Hellenic Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in ultrasound certification seminars, where participants are assessed on their practical technical competence in performing ultrasound examinations, with a view to awarding certificates of competence in first- and third-trimester obstetric ultrasound.
His teaching activity includes the delivery of embryology teaching in five compulsory courses and one compulsory elective course within the undergraduate curriculum of the Department of Medicine of the University of Thessaly, as well as participation in seven postgraduate programmes at the University of Thessaly, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Democritus University of Thrace. He has contributed to twelve doctoral dissertations, serving as supervisor in four of them, and to twenty-seven postgraduate theses, serving as supervisor in eight.