Professor, Laboratory Director
Attikon University General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
SPYROS A. POURNARAS
PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Director, LABORATORY of CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ATTIKON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
MEDICAL SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, GREECE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
1993: MD, Medical School, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (AUT)
1994-1998: Registrar, Department of Microbiology, AHEPA Hospital, Medical School, AUT;
1999: Medical Specialty in Medical Microbiology
2000: PhD, Medical School, AUT
2001: Lecturer, Department of Microbiology; 2007: Asst. Professor of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Thessaly (UTH)
2009-2013: Head, Department of Clinical Chemistry, UTH
2013-2015: Assoc. Prof. of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, University of Athens (NKUA)
2014 -: Attending Guest Professor, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
2015 -: Professor of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, NKUA
2016 -: Director, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
2017 -: Chair of Clinical Laboratories Division, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
2017 -2021; 2022-: Chair, Infection Control Committee, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
2019 - : Chair, Infection Committee, 2nd Regional Health of Greece
2019 - 2023: Program Committee Member, ECCMID
2020 - : Head, COVID-19 Molecular Diagnostics Reference Laboratory for the 2nd Regional Health, “ATTIKON” Hospital, NKUA
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Teaching Activities in Medical Schools of: NKUA, UTH, AUT, Greece, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Coordinator of the ESCMID Postgraduate Educational Courses:
“Phenotypic and Molecular approaches for Detection and Control of Carbapenem- and Colistin-resistant Gram-negatives”, Volos, Greece 23-24 May 2019
“Last-line antibiotics against XDR/PDR Gram-negatives: Understanding phenotype-genotype correlations and PK/PD approaches”, Athens, Greece 7-9 June 2023
PUBLICATIONS: 240
Sum Impact Factor (IF): ≈ 1400
H-Index: 45
Citations= 8,130 (SCOPUS)
EDITOR IN PEER-REVIEWED MEDICAL JOURNALS:
1. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
2. BMC Microbiology
3. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
4. Chemotherapy Research and Practice
5. Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery
6. Data Set Papers in Medicine
7. Frontiers in Medicine
8. Frontiers in Public Health
9. Antibiotics
REVIEWER IN >60 PEER-REVIEWED MEDICAL JOURNALS