MITSIKOSTAS DIMOS-DIMITRIOS

DIMOS D. MITSIKOSTAS MD, PHD, FEAN

Professor of Neurology

Eginition Hospital, Medical School,

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Dimos Mitsikostas is Professor of Neurology at Aeginition Hospital, Medical School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece, heading the Headache Outpatient Clinic and the Ward A of Emergency Neurology and Stroke. He is memebr of the Management Group of the Headache Scientific Panel and of the Coordinating Panel on Functional Neurological Disorder at the European Academy of Neurology; he serves as President of the Hellenic Headache Society. He is a Past President of the Executive Board of the European Headache Federation.

His clinical and experimental work is focused on headaches, placebo/nocebo, and multiple sclerosis (MS), and he has been lecturing nationally and internationally on these subjects. He participates in several clinical trials for headaches and MS. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers with more than 20,000 citations (h-index 53), and served as Editor/Co-Editor of eight textbooks. He currently operates as Associate Editor for Journal of Headache and Pain and Frontiers in Neurology, and he is Reviewer and/or Member of the Advisory Boards of numerous peer-reviewed international medical journals. He is also a member of several national and international societies.

Prof. Mitsikostas graduated from the Aristotle’s University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece and he obtained his PhD in experimental neuropharmacology from the NKUA, Greece.  He certified in Neurology at the Aeginition Hospital, NKUA, Greece. His post-doc studies were focused on the experimental molecular pharmacology of cephalic pain in Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and in the Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK. Prior to moving to the NKUA he was heading the Neurology Department of the Athens Naval Hospital, at the Hellenic Navy.