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Euphrosyni (Effrosyni) S. Koutsouraki MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Aristotle University
AHEPA Hospital (St. Kyriakidi 1, 54626) Thessaloniki, Greece
e-mail: [email protected]
 Date of birth: 27.05.1965
 Mother of three children 24, 21 and 12 years old respectively
 She studied classic music and painting and awarded with
international prizes ( 1976 -1986)
 She was also player of basketball team (1974-1986)
 1984-1990: School of Medicine (Aristotle University, AUTH)
Diploma: Very Good (7.2)
 1984: Scholarship (Greek National Foundation for Scholarships)
 1991-1996: Training in Neurology
 1992-1996: Thesis (“The neurotransmitters of the mossy fibers of
the human cerebellar cortex. An electron microscope study”)
evaluated as “Excellent”
 1996-1997:
Scholarship
of
Bodosaki
Foundation
“Neurohistochemical study of neurodegenerative diseases”
 1998-1999: Scholarship of National Foundation of Scholarships
“Neuropsychological disorders in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients”
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 1999-2000: Scholarship of Vardinogiannio Foundation “Speech
disorders in MS patients”
 Grant from European Neurological Society (ENS) for a study
presented during ENS congress (1997) “Interferon B-1b in multiple
sclerosis patients”
 Award from European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS)
for a poster presented during EFNS congress (1999) «Interleukin-6
and anti-MAG antibodies during clinical exacerbation of multiple
sclerosis»
 Award (THREE times) from the International Society for the
Improvement of the Quality of Life on Dementia, Epilepsy and MS
(2004, 2007, 2008 ) for poster presentations:
1. Synaptic plasticity I: A symmetric electrostructural model to
account for the induction of long-term depression (LTD)
2. Gangliosides in MS patients
3. Anti-GM1 antibodies in MS patients
 Award from “Brain and Behaviour Society” for a poster
presentation (2011) on the role of anti-ganglioside antibodies in
dementia
 Remarkable comments by K. Jellinger for two oral presentations
published in Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics 7(3), 241-243 (2007)
«Immunotherapy in Alzheimer’s disease» & «The relation
between clinical and MR findings in MS»
 Since 2010: reviewer in four international journals
(Neuroepidemiology, Postgraduate medicine (USA), The
International Journal of Neurosciences, Neural regeneration
Research) for papers on MS
 1996: six months training as “Hospitantin” in the Laboratory of
Neuropathology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg,
Germany
 2010: three months training in RIA and neuro-immunological
techniques in the Biochemical and Neuro-immunological
Laboratory of Hellenic Department of Pasteur Institute
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 1997-2003: Scientific Collaborator of the 1st Department of
Neurology, AHEPA Hospital
 1998-1999: Scientific Collaborator of Technical School of
Thessaloniki, Laboratory of Physiology
 2003: Lecturer of Aristotle University (AUTH), 1st Department of
Neurology, AHEPA Hospital
 2004- up to now: Chair of the Out-patient clinic for MS patients
(1st Department of Neurology, AHEPA Hospital)
 2006- up to now: Chair of the Out-patient clinic for Cerebellar
ataxias (1st Department of Neurology, AHEPA Hospital)
 2006- up to now: Chair of the Laboratory of Neuroimmunology
(1st Department of Neurology, AHEPA Hospital)
 2008 – up to now: Assistant Professor of Aristotle University
(AUTH), 1st Department of Neurology, AHEPA Hospital
 10.10.2012 Permanence in Aristotle University
 February 2013 candidate Associate Professor of Neurology,
Aristotle University
 Academic teacher in Medical School of Aristotle University: 11
years (2003 up to now) for the 4th and 6th year students on
Neurology (multiple sclerosis, cerebellar ataxias, myasthenia
gravis, neuroimmunology, myelopathies)
 Academic teacher for the University students of Psychology: 7
years (2003-2009)
 Academic teacher in Postgraduate courses for medical students
and candidate PhDs in Aristotle University (six times):2010- 2013
1. Neurophysiology of the nervous system (2010-2011)
2. Neurodegenerative diseases of the cerebellum (2012-2013)
3. Obesity and central nervous system (2012-2013)
4. The deceptive brain! (2013-2014)
5. Free will: Does it exist? (2013-2014)
6. The role of stress in autoimmune diseases (2013-2014)
 Supervisor for 3 (three) PhD (Thesis) candidates (2011-2013)
 Member of supervising committee for 7 (seven) PhD candidates
 Academic teacher for residents: 11 years
 Invited speaker (December 2011-November 2013): Fifteen
congresses (5 international & 10 Greek)
 Advisories: 15
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 Organisor of THREE Panhellenic Congresses on Multiple Sclerosis
 2007- 2011: Organisor of monthly inter-clinical meetings with the
1st Department of Neurosurgery of Aristotle University in AHEPA
Hospital
 2012 up to now: Organisor of weekly inter-clinical meetings with
the 2nd Department of Neurology of Aristotle University in AHEPA
Hospital
 Wide social work (many times awarded by the Municipality of
Thessaloniki) as volunteer in projects for improving the quality of
life of children with cognitive decline, patients with multiple
sclerosis and dementia
 Member of ten international medical societies
 Tresor of the the Greek Society for the Improvement of the
Quality of Life for Chronic neurological patients
 Secretary of the South-East European Society on Neurology &
Psychiatry
 Secretary of the Neuroimmunological branch of the Greek
Neurological Society
 Three research protocols on multiple sclerosis (2011-up to now)
via ELKE (Research Committee of Aristotle University)
 Three research protocols on multiple sclerosis (2013) via private
clinic
 Fifteen contracts with ELKE (Research Committee of Aristotle
University) from December 2011 to December 2013
 Co-author in “Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences” 2nd edition,
M. J. Aminoff & R. B. Daroff, Elsevier Inc., Topic: 808. Surgical
treatment of cerebral malformations (it will be published in 2014)
 Co-author in a Scientific Greek Volume (Chapters: Cerebellum
ant its role in cognitive function & The use of immunoenzymatic
techniques in Neurology, 2005)
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 Invited author, Granted (three times) for papers on multiple
sclerosis and dementia (Greek MS Society, 2012 and Novartis
2013)
Total number of publications: 186 (137 first author)
Impact factor (IF):
Full papers (in journals with IF): 24.663
Abstracts (in journals with IF): 167.393
Total: 192.056
Citations: 76 (16.11.2013)
Presentations in congresses: 123
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