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Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, PhD (Hon), FACP, FIDSA, FECMM, FAAM
Texas 4000 Distinguished Endowed Professor For Cancer Research
Deputy Head, Division of Internal Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, PhD (Hon), is the Texas
4000 Distinguished Professor for Cancer Research and Deputy
Head-Research in the Division of Internal Medicine at The
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is also an
adjunct professor at Baylor College of Medicine and University of
Houston College of Pharmacy in Houston Texas. He received his
medical degree Summa Cum Laude from the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Dr. Kontoyiannis
also completed a post-doctoral clinical research fellowship at the
Section of Infectious Diseases at The University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, followed by training in
Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX,
where he served as a Chief Medical Resident. He was
subsequently trained as a clinical fellow in Infectious Diseases at
Massachusetts General Hospital and obtained a Master in Clinical
Sciences from Harvard Medical School in Boston. He spent 3
years at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Sciences/Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a fellow in the
Harvard MIT Clinical Investigators Training Program. Dr.
Kontoyiannis has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts and been invited to give over 300
lectures in international conferences and prestigious institutions in US and abroad. He serves as an
associate editor for Mycoses and J of Infection and sits in the editorial Boards of many journals, including
Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, JID. Transplantation Infectious Diseases. He is a reviewer for
several other peer-reviewed journals in Infectious Diseases, Oncology and Hematology. An international
expert in clinical and experimental mycology, and is considered the leading expert in mycology worldwide (expertscape.com) and among the 1-2 most highly cited investigators in the area of mycology with
over 32,000 citations (Google Scholar). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the
Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is the recipient of many awards such as the 2004 American
Society for Microbiology award for Outstanding Research in the Pathogenesis of Microbial Diseases
(mentor), the America's Top Physicians in from Consumer’s Research Council of America and The
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 2004 Faculty E. N Cobb Scholar Award, Faculty
Achievement Award, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2007, The Distinguished Clinical Faculty Mentoring
Award of at MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2012, The Billy Cooper Memorial award from The Medical
Mycology Society of Americas (2013), America’s Top doctors (2015), The Drouhet Medal from the
European Confederation of Medical Mycology (2015), Littman award from the Mycology Society of NY
(2016), emeritus member of Paul-Ehrlich-Society(2016), honorary PhD (Honoris Causa) from the
National Kapodistrian University in Athens, Greece (2017). He is an American Society for Microbiology
Distinguished Lecturer, 2014-2016, a fellow in American Academy of Microbiology and the president
elect of Immunocompromised Host Society (2016-2018) and an inaugural lifetime fellow of the
European Confederation for Medical Mycology.