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RENTZOS MICHAIL

MICHAEL RENTZOS

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of birth:              12/02/1959

Nationality:                 Greek

Place of Birth:             Athens

Work Address:            1st Department of Neurology

                                    Eginition Hospital, Vas. Sofias 72-74, 11528, Athens                               

Work Tel:                    210 7289200,   210 7289305

E-mail: mrentzos[at]med.uoa[dot]gr

 

CURRENT POSITION

June 2012 to date        Permanent Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Athens

 

MILITARY SERVICE

December 1983 – April 1986             Infantry

June 1984                    Sanitary Junior officer, Trained at the Supreme Joint War College ADISPO in Psychological Warfare, Sanitary Reservist Captain

 

RURAL GENERAL PRACTIONER

August 1986 – December 1987, Pelasgia Central Greece

 

 

EDUCATION

1971 – 1976    Junior High School – Senior High School (Secondary School)

1978 – 1983    Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, degree: very good

1984                Licence to practice

 

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

1985                six-month residency in psychiatry, 401 General Hospital of Army, Athens

1985 – 1986    five-month residency in pathology, 401 General Hospital of Army, Athens

June 1985        one-month residency in pathology, Preveza Prefecture Hospital

Dec 1987 – Jun 1987

start of residency in speciality in Neurology at Pammakaristos Hospital

Oct 1988 – Mar 1991

final residency in speciality in Neurology at the University Neurological

Clinic, Eginition Hospital

1991                Speciality: Neurologist

 

1995    Doctorate: tumor necrosis factor (TNF – a), interleukin 1 – b (IL – 1b),

interleukin – 6 (IL – 6) in the serum and the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with MS

Degree: excellent

 

TEACHING

Undergraduate education:

  • Wrote Metabolic Diseases of the Nervous System (Chapter) in the textbook NEUROLOGY, Epitome Theory and Action, Professor D. Vasilopoulos, used in the teaching of fifth year students in Medical School
  • 1992       ward rounds, teaching students in the hospital
  • 2002       teaching students in the amphitheatre

 

Postgraduate education:

  • Teaching postgraduate students for research programmes of the Neurobiology – Neuroimmunology laboratory of the Neurological Clinic of Eginition Hospital
  • Training speciality students of neurology (ward rounds in the hospital, seminars, teaching in the amphitheatre)

 

CLINICAL

1992 – 2002    research collaborator for the University Neurological Clinic A of Eginition Hospital 

2003 – 2008    Lecturer University Neurological Clinic A of Eginition Hospital 

2008 – to date Assistant professor, University Neurological Clinic A of Eginition Hospital 

2003 – 2007    Attended patients in the Outpatient Department of the Neurological Clinic of Eginition Hospital

2007 to date    Head of Clinical Department for Disorders of the Peripheral Nervous System of the Neurological Clinic of Eginition Hospital

2007 to date    Head of the Special Clinics for Diseases of Motor Neurons, Polyneuropathy and Disorders of the Neuromuscular Synapses

1992 – 2002    Consultant Neurologist for the Dermatology Clinic of Syggros Hospital

 

 

RESEARCH

1991 – to date

  • Coordinator of the Neuroimmunology – Neurobiology Laboratory of the Neurological Clinic of Eginition Hospital
  • Active member and constant participant in funded research programmes and clinical protocols of the Neuroimmunology – Neurobiology Laboratory of the Neurological Clinic of Eginition Hospital

 

Research description

  1. Measuring levels of cytokines (IL – 1b, IL – 6, TNFa, IL – 12, IL – 15, β -2      microglobulin, neopterin) in the serum and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), polyneuropathy, dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) etc.  The method used was the immunoenzymatic method Elisa
  2. Determination of antibodies against proteins of the spinal cord by the method of immunoblotting  (Western Blot)
  3. Determination of mitochondrial enzymes in human muscle tissue and rat brains
  4. Measurements levels of adhesion molecules (ICAM, VCAM, ELAM) in the serum of patients with MS, Alzheimer type dementia and ALS immunoenzymatic, method used Elisa
  5. Study of the role of chlamydia in MS (determination of antibodies against chlamydial by immunoenzymatic method Elisa in serum and CSF of MS patients, determination of chlamydia mRNA by the method of DNA polymerase and culturing them in biological MS patients)
  6. Participation in the seminar State of the ART in MS that took place in Rome, 3 -5 June 2003
  7. Measuring levels chemokines (RANTES, CCL2, CX3CL1) in patients with inflammatory (MS) and non – inflammatory neurological diseases (dementia, Parkinson, amyotrofic lateral sclerosis, etc.) using the Elisa and the immunoblot (Western blot) method
  8. Measuring levels of cytokines and T lymphocyte subsets in patients with myasthenia, motor neuron disease and autoimmune neuropathy.  Comparison with other non-inflammatory neurological diseases.  Methods used are Elisa and flow cytometry
  9. Participation in the Training Seminar for Myasthenia which took place in Paris. 1 – 2 December 2009, organised by the European Network for Myasthenia
  10. Measurement of levels of proinflammatory cytokines (IL – 12, IL – 15, IL – 17, IL – 23) in serum of patients with MG.  Comparison with other inflammatory (MS) and non-inflammatory neurological diseases.  The method used is the immunoenzymatic method Elisa

 

 

AWARDS

Candidate for the prize Μοίρα (Fate) of the Athens Academy in 1996 with the paper: Tumor necrosis factor, interleukin 1b, interleukin 6 and soluble adhesion molecules intercellular in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with MS and other neurological diseases

 

 

MEMBER OF SCENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Hellenic Neurological Society

Hellenic Society of Immunology

Representative of the Myasthenia branch of the Hellenic Neurological Society

 

 

MEMBER OF ELECTORAL BODIES

Member of electoral bodies in choice of three Lecturers and one Assistant Professor

 

 

MEMBER OF THREE DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

Supervising member on one committee

Member on two three-member committees

Member on seven-member committee

 

PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Principles of Neurology, 1997, Adams and Victor et al.

Wrote three chapters in the Greek edition of the book

  • HIV / AIDS – Basics, 2001,

Wrote one chapter in the monograph

 

 

PARTICIPATION AS A SPEAKER AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

 

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REVIEWER IN 12 JOURNALS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE

 

Neurobiology of the Disease

Journal of Neurological Sciences

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

European Journal of Neurology

Journal of Neuroinflammation

Functional Neurology

 

 

 

RESEARCH – WRITING

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS

 

IN JOURNALS OF SCIENCE

 

Total: 78

 

 

 

Citations            from Scopus           :1854

 

h – index: 25 from Scopus

 

 

Foreign languages communications                      

 

       Total: 37

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