Digestive System Diseases / Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (PDF)

an expert evaluator by prestigious organizations, such as the National Research Grant Funding Agencies of Greece, Broad Medical Research Program Inflammatory Bowel Disease Grants, the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), Krakow, the PISCOPIA Fellowship Programme on behalf of the University of Padova, Italy, the Czech-Norwegian Research Programme, the Qatar National Research Fund, the Danish Council for Independent Research for DFF - YDUN Research Project, the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR), University and Research and the Evaluation of research products.




George E. Theodoropoulos was born in Greece in 1969 and graduated Athens Medical School in 1992. His PhD research in Tumor Markers of Gastrointestinal Malignancies was completed in 1994. He completed a 6-year residency program in General Surgery and a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery in the U.S.A. Following a four-year course as a private surgeon in Athens Medical Center, he was elected as a Lecturer of Surgery in Athens Medical School in 2007. He is currently holding an academic post as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the same University. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Surgery and of the American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a Fellow of the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons. Twenty PhD theses have been completed under his supervision. He has also completed a 6-month research fellowship in the Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA. He has set up and guided the function of a clinic of surveillance of Health-Related Quality of Life and oncologic process of postoperative colorectal cancer patients, he has been supervising the Colorectal Unit of the First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery of Athens Medical School at Hippocration Hospital, Athens, Greece and he has recently established and has been coordinating, along with the Radiology and the Academic Gastroenterology Department of the hospital, a "Lower Digestive Tract Study Unit," aiming at the multidisciplinary approach of large bowel diseases. He has presented at more than 200 national and international meetings and invited talks at 90 meetings. He is the author/co-author of 120 internationally cited, peer-reviewed journals publications. His research work has international recognition, and there are more than 4,000 citations of his publications related to his research (h-index 34).