Stefanos Dimitrakopoulos is a psychiatrist - psychotherapist and military doctor. He graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2004. In 2013 he completed his specialization in Psychiatry at the 1st University Clinic of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, at Aiginition Hospital.
He is a consultant psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Clinic of 414 Military Hospital of Athens and works in private psychiatry since 2013. He is a scientific associate of the 1st University Clinic of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, at Aiginition Hospital, participating in research protocols such as "Detecting Gene-Environment Interaction in Patients with a First Episode Psychosis" and "European Long-acting Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia Trial". He is also a member of MGene Lab at Aiginition Hospital, participating in similar research studies. His ongoing doctoral thesis at the Medical School of the University of Athens is about cognitive deficits in patients with First Episode Psychosis.
He has received postgraduate training in neuroimaging of schizophrenia at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Center of the Melbourne University in 2016-2017. He has been the inaugural recipient of "Greek-Australian Fellowship in Neuropsychiatry" (University of Melbourne - Melbourne Health). He has completed his masters in "Human Genetics" at the University of Thessaly.
Since 2011, he has been a member of the teaching team in the Training Course in Clinical Psychopathology “PANAGIOTIS OULIS”. Since 2017, he has been a coordinator and trainer for the training program in the psychiatric clinic of 414 Military Hospital. From 2018 he participates as a trainer at the EPIPSY annual Seminar on Early Intervention in Psychosis.
His areas of scientific interest are preventive psychiatry, psychiatric genetics and epidemiology, mainly in the domain of Psychotic Disorders with emphasis on the 1st Episode Psychosis, early recognition, intervention and treatment. His work has been awarded at the 26th Greek Psychiatric Congress in 2018. He participates in the publication of international and greek peer-reviewed articles and books and is a speaker in Greek and international conferences.