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Andreas Florakis

Born in Athens in 1969. He studied Biology at the University of Athens and then Medicine at the Medical School of the University of Ioannina. He completed his PhD dissertation at the Department of Medicine of the University of Thessaly, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology and Neurochemistry, of the Neurosciences Center at the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens. He was trained for the specialty of Psychiatry at the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, at the Eginition Hospital. He has also been trained in Mental Health Promotion, Anxiety Disorder Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (continued) and Neurobiology at the Pasteur Institute.

In the past, he has worked as a specialized psychiatrist in his private practice and as a partner of the Society for Peripheral Development and Mental Health (EPAPSY) in 2010-2011. From 2008 until now he has been working as a research collaborator at the Experimental Neurophysiology Laboratory of the Eginition Hospital. Since 2011 he has been working as a consultant psychiatrist at the General Hospital of Elefsina "Thriasio".

On a voluntary basis, he has also provided medical services to people with a substance abuse disorder as part of the "Doctors of the World" program "Athens Roads", during the periods 2003-2004 and 2006-2007, and as an interconnected partner of the Department of Occupational Medicine of the General Hospital of Elefsina "Thriasio" - voluntary work which included giving speeches to the community, diagnosing and treating uninsured citizens with mental disorders.

He participated in the educational team of the Course in Clinical Psychopathology of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, which was supervised by the Associate Professor of Psychiatry Panagiotis Oulis during the academic year 2008-2009. From 2014 until now he has been participating in the teaching team of the Course in Clinical Psychopathology "Panagiotis Oulis", with scientific supervisor the psychiatrist George Konstantakopoulos (First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London). Since 2016, he has also been participating in the teaching team of the Course in Clinical Skills in Psychopathology "Panagiotis Oulis", with George Konstantakopoulos as the scientific supervisor.

He has attended 23 scientific conferences and has made 18 presentations (posters and speeches) in conferences.

He has published 8 papers in international journals and was the author of a chapter of the book Neuroblastoma - Present and Future, Prof. Hiroyuki Shimada (Ed).

He has received the following distinctions and scholarships:

  • Scholarship from the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens for his PhD dissertation.
  • Funding of his doctoral dissertation by the PENED 2003 program.
  • Award-winning presentation: Andreas Florakis, Shalini Johnson and Dimitra Mangoura. ROLE OF PROTEIN KINASE C-EPSILON IN THE NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS. 19th Congress of the Hellenic Society for Neurosciences.
  • Honorable mention for his contribution to the operation of the Department of Psychiatry of the General Hospital of Elefsina "Thriasio", in 2012.
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