Professor of Neurology
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Dr Georgios Tsivgoulis currently serves as  Professor of Neurology (2018-today) and Chairman (2020-) in the Second Department of Neurology in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine. He is also the Director of Neurosonology Laboratory, the Director of Resident Training and Cerebrovascular Fellowship Program in this Department. Dr Tsivgoulis is also a Visiting Professor of Neurology, in the Department of Neurology in The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN (2015-). He is a Fellow of European Stroke Organization (ESO), European Academy of Neurology (EAN) and American Academy of Neurology (AAN). His research interests focus on acute reperfusion therapies in acute ischemic stroke, applications of neurosonology in cerebrovascular diseases, secondary stroke prevention, clinical trial methodology and application of meta-analyses on stroke therapeutics.

            Dr Tsivgoulis currently serves as Vice-President of the European Stroke Organization (ESO). He is member of ESO Guideline Board and serves in ESO Education Committee. He has served as National Coordinator and International Steering Committee member in multiple phase II & III randomized-controlled clinical trials (RCTs) in acute stroke and in secondary stroke prevention. He has served and currently as Data Safety and Monitoring Board Chair in 4 phase II RCTs. Dr Tsivgoulis has authored >680 papers and 16 book chapters. His research has received >24.000 citations (Google Scholar) and his H-index is 76 (Google Scholar).

Dr Tsivgoulis has been the recipient of international awards including the European Stroke Conference Young Investigator Award (2003), American Society of Neuroimaging McKinney Research Award (2007) in Neurosonology, European Stroke Organization Scientific Excellence Award (2021) and competitive grants from both academic institutions and industry. Dr Tsivgoulis has served as supervisor and as member of the Evaluation Committee in multiple (>20) PhD students in the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and other national or international academic institutions.