Academic CV
Professor of Cardiology and Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).
Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School (2015-2016), Chair and Vice-Chair of the NKUA’s School of Medicine (2019-2023), and President of the Board of Directors of ‘Aretaieio’ and ‘Aiginiteio’ University Hospitals (2019-2021).
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– MD, School of Medicine, NKUA.
– MSc in Intensive Care Units – Cardiology, Care, School of Medicine, NKUA.
– MSc in Health Care Management, Hellenic Open University.
– PhD, School of Medicine, NKUA.
– Postgraduate Medical Training at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ΜΙΤ).
– Unanimously elected to all academic staff ranks (Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Permanent Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor) at the NKUA’s School of Medicine.
– 1st Department of Cardiology Hippokration General Hospital of Athens (2003-2021) and Head of the Atherosclerosis Unit and the Biochemical, Immunological, and Molecular Biology Unit of the same Department.
– Head of the ‘Heart and Diabetes’ Special Clinic for the monitoring of patients with both heart disease and diabetes mellitus.
– Director of the 3rd Clinical Department of Cardiology at Athens General Hospital of Thoracic Diseases ‘Sotiria’ (2025).
– President of the ‘Heart and Diabetes’ Working Group at the Hellenic Society of Cardiology (2021-2024).
– Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiovascular Division, Boston, MA (2015-2016).
– Research Affiliate at Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2015-2017).
– Member of the Research Oversight Committee, Brigham Research Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2016).
– Research Affiliate at Vascular Profiling Research Group, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2016 and 2018-present).
– Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2023-present).
– Chair of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2021-2023).
– Vice-Chair of the NKUA’s School of Medicine (2019-2021).
– President of the Board of Directors of ‘Aretaieio’ and ‘Aiginiteio’ University Hospitals (2019-2021).
– Director of the MSc in Cardiometabolic Medicine of the NKUA’s School of Medicine.
– Member of the Board of Directors of ‘Andreas Syggros’ Hospital.
– Director of the elective undergraduate courses on ‘Molecular Cardiology’ (2011-Present).
– Teaching in 6 undergraduate modules and 5 Postgraduate Programmes of Study at the NKUA’s School of Medicine.
My research focuses on:
– Molecular Cardiology
– Atherosclerosis
– Endothelial Function
– Diabetes Mellitus in patients with Cardiovascular Disease.
I am the author (or co-author) of over 430 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious international scientific journals (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, International Journal of Cardiology, Current Medicinal Chemistry, et al.) with a total Impact Factor exceeding 2.000 and over 23,000 citations (h-index 70).
I also serve as Section Editor (Cardiovascular Diseases) for the international biomedical journal Current Medicinal Chemistry (IF: 4.740). My scholarly output comprises the editing and authorship of 20 books and textbooks on Cardiology. The study in which I was lead author from Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic—published in JACC (IF: 24.090) in 2018—was selected that same year as one of the world’s 100 best papers in Cardiology.
I have participated as an invited speaker in significant international conferences abroad, and my abstracts total more than 300. I write extensively for the Greek print and online media on medical topics related to my specialty, as well as on broader topics related to education.
1. Siasos, Gerasimos, Dimitris Tousoulis, and Christodoulos Stefanadis. “CYP2C19 genotype and outcomes of clopidogrel treatment.” The New England journal of medicine 364.5 (2011): 481-482
2. Siasos, Gerasimos; Tousoulis, Dimitris; Vlachopoulos, Charalambos; Antoniades, Charalambos; Stefanadi, Elli; Ioakeimidis, Nikos; Andreou, Ioannis; Zisimos, Kostas; Papavassiliou, Athanasios G; Stefanadis, Christodoulos; ,Short-term treatment with L-arginine prevents the smoking-induced impairment of endothelial function and vascular elastic properties in young individuals,International journal of cardiology,126,3,394-399,2008,Elsevier
3. Siasos, Gerasimos; Tousoulis, Dimitris; Vlachopoulos, Charalambos; Antoniades, Charalambos; Stefanadi, Elli; Ioakeimidis, Nikos; Zisimos, Kostas; Siasou, Zoi; Papavassiliou, Athanasios G; Stefanadis, Christodoulos; ,The impact of oral L-arginine supplementation on acute smoking–induced endothelial injury and arterial performance,American journal of hypertension,22,6,586-592,2009,Oxford University Press
4. Siasos, Gerasimos; Tsigkou, Vasiliki; Kokkou, Eleni; Oikonomou, Evangelos; Vavuranakis, Manolis; Vlachopoulos, Charalambos; Verveniotis, Alexis; Limperi, Maria; Genimata, Vasiliki; G Papavassiliou, Athanasios; ,Smoking and atherosclerosis: mechanisms of disease and new therapeutic approaches,Current medicinal chemistry,21,34,3936-3948,2014,Bentham Science Publishers
5. Siasos, Gerasimos; Gouliopoulos, Nikolaos; Moschos, Marilita M; Oikonomou, Evangelos; Kollia, Christina; Konsola, Theodosia; Athanasiou, Dimitrios; Siasou, Georgia; Mourouzis, Konstantinos; Zisimos, Konstantinos; ,Role of endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness in the development of diabetic retinopathy,Diabetes care,38,1,e9-e10,2015,American Diabetes Association
6. Siasos, Gerasimos; Oikonomou, Evangelos; Zaromitidou, Marina; Kioufis, Stamatios; Kokkou, Eleni; Mourouzis, Konstantinos; Vlasis, Konstantinos; Vavuranakis, Manolis; Stone, Peter H; Papavassiliou, Athanasios G; ,Clopidogrel response variability is associated with endothelial dysfunction in coronary artery disease patients receiving dual antiplatelet therapy,Atherosclerosis,242,1,102-108,2015,Elsevier
7. Yamamoto, Erika; Siasos, Gerasimos; Zaromytidou, Marina; Coskun, Ahmet U; Xing, Lei; Bryniarski, Krzysztof; Zanchin, Thomas; Sugiyama, Tomoyo; Lee, Hang; Stone, Peter H; ,Low endothelial shear stress predicts evolution to high-risk coronary plaque phenotype in the future: a serial optical coherence tomography and computational fluid dynamics study,Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions,10,8,e005455,2017,”Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Hagerstown, MD”
8. Siasos, Gerasimos; Sara, Jaskanwal D; Zaromytidou, Marina; Park, Kyoung H; Coskun, Ahmet Umit; Lerman, Lilach O; Oikonomou, Evangelos; Maynard, Charles C; Fotiadis, Dimitris; Stefanou, Kostas; ,Local low shear stress and endothelial dysfunction in patients with nonobstructive coronary atherosclerosis,Journal of the American College of Cardiology,71,19,2092-2102,2018,”American College of Cardiology Foundation Washington, DC”
9. Siasos, Gerasimos; Tsigkou, Vasiliki; Kosmopoulos, Marinos; Theodosiadis, Dimosthenis; Simantiris, Spyridon; Tagkou, Nikoletta Maria; Tsimpiktsioglou, Athina; Stampouloglou, Panagiota K; Oikonomou, Evangelos; Mourouzis, Konstantinos; ,Mitochondria and cardiovascular diseases—from pathophysiology to treatment,Annals of translational medicine,6,12,,2018,AME Publications
10. Siasos, Gerasimos; Tousoulis, Dimitris; Stefanadis, Christodoulos; ,CYP2C19 genotype and cardiovascular events,Jama,307,14,1482-1485,2012,American Medical Association
