EVANGELOPOULOS MARIA-ELEFTHERIA
Maria Eleftheria Evangelopoulos
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurochemistry
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Maria Eleftheria Evangelopoulos is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurochemistry at the Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She works at the Demyelinating Diseases Unit, at the Day Clinic, and at the outpatient Demyelinating Diseases clinic at the 1st Department of Neurology, Eginition University Hospital.
She graduated from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She did her Doctoral Thesis in Immunology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, studying the immune indices in clinical and subclinical autoimmune disorders.
She continued with her PhD in Neuroscience in the University of Bern, Switzerland where she studied the mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, the action of neurotrophins and their receptors as well as the molecular signaling involved. She completed her residency training in neurology in Inselspital Bern and at the 1st Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She was then further subspecialized at the Neurology Department of Inselspital Bern as a fellow of European Neurological Society and later on she had a Sabbatical to the Demyelinating Diseases Unit-Neuroimmunology Unit, of Inselspital, Bern, with on going research collaboration between the two MS Centers.
Her clinical, educational and research activities focus on clinical neurology, neurochemistry, neuroimmunology and immunology. She has a special interest on Demyelinating Diseases as multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica. She has published a large number of papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as abstracts in international and Greek conferences in the field of clinical neurology, neurochemistry and neuroimmunology. As an invited speaker she has participated in many National and International congresses and has also served as invited reviewer in National and International Journals.