SOLDATOS RIGAS

CURRICULUM VITAE

RIGAS-FILIPPOS SOLDATOS

Specialty: Psychiatry

Nationality: Greek

EDUCATION

• Aug. 2011-Jul. 2014: Doctorate Thesis (PhD equivalent), 1st Department of Pathology, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.  Subject: “Molecular study of meningiomas”

• Feb. 2000-April 2005:MedicalDoctor’s Degree (MD), University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

• Sept. 1996-June 1999:Bachelor’s Degree (BSc) Biomedical Science King’s College London, UK

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Current posts:

• Early intervention in Psychosis Unit                                Oct. 2023-Present

‘Peiraios 33’, https://www.peiraios33.gr/                              Consultant Psychiatrist 

University Mental Health,

Neurosciences & Precision Medicine Research Institute, Athens, Greece. Clinical Supervisor: Dr. P. Lekkos

• Aeginition Hospital                                                               June 2022 – Present

Academic Fellow

1st Department of Neurology, University of Athens Medical School. Director: Prof. L. Stefanis

• Aeginition Hospital                                                               Apr. 2014-Present

Research Fellow

1st Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens Medical School. Director: Prof. N. Stefanis

Psychotic Disorder Unit, Clinical Supervisor: Prof. N. Stefanis

Old Age Telemedicine Psychiatry Unit, Clinical Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. A. Politis

Previous posts:

• 6^th Municipal Health Clinic                                                 March 2017- Sept 2017

Consultant Psychiatrist,  City of Athens and University of Athens Medical School Psychiatric outpatient clinic

• Aeginition Hospital                                                     Jan. 2013-Jan. 2014

Final Year Specialty Trainee

1st Department of Neurology, University of Athens Medical School

• National Military Service                                                       Oct. 2011 – June 2012

Hellenic Army Land Forces

• Greater Manchester West                                                               Specialty Trainee

NHS Foundation Trust                                                               Nov. 2007 – Aug. 2011

Training in Psychiatry

General Adult Psychiatry (Inpatient, outpatient, substance misuse service, crisis and home treatment team,  child and adolescent psychiatry,  old age psychiatry)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Aug 2019 – Feb 2020: Research fellow on the Greek-Australian Research Fellowship. Training in coding using Python and applying machine learning analysis models in Python at the University of Melbourne, Australia.  Models developed in first episode psychosis. Supervisor: Prof. C. Pantelis
• Nov 2017- May 2018: Training and application of machine learning analysis at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.  Training in collaboration with the first Department of Psychiatry at the University of Athens. Supervisor: Prof. N. Koutsouleris
• Feb 2016 - 2022: Participation as an assessor in the European Union Funded, multicentre research project Sense-Cog (Ears, Eyes and Mind: The ‘SENSE-Cog Project’ to improve mental well-being for elderly Europeans with sensory impairment). Research Supervisor: Prof. A. Politis
• Sept 2015 - Present: Lead role in organising a research project on health care integration in rural and urban areas. Research Supervisor: Prof. A. Politis
• Jan 2015 – Present: Participation as assessor/researcher in the Athens First Psychosis Episode Study, Athens, Greece. Research Supervisor: Prof. N. Stefanis
• Jan 2014 – 2020: Participation as an assessor in the multicentre study EULAST (European Long-acting Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia Trial). Research Supervisor: Prof. N. Stefanis

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2022 – Present: Annual teaching in the psychiatric specialty program of psychiatrists in training at the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Greece.
• 2022 – Present: Annual teaching in the Early Intervention in Psychosis at the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Greece.
• 2022 – Present: Annual teaching on psychiatry in the undergraduate medical students program at the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Greece.
• 2019 – Present: Annual teaching in the Early Intervention in Psychosis, University Mental Health, Neurosciences & Precision Medicine Research Institute, Athens, Greece
• 2018 Sept - Present: Visiting Assistant Professor, previously Scientific collaborator at the European University Cyprus (EUC), Nicosia.  Course coordinator at the EUC medical school for the undergraduate course of psychiatry.
• 2017 -2019: Annual teaching in the nursing postgraduate course in psychiatric training at the University of Athens.
• 2014 – 2016: Annual teaching in the postgraduate course of the 1^st Department of Pathology at the University of Athens titled: ‘Cancerous disease in man: Diagnosis, contemporary treatment and research’ Teaching Supervisor: Prof. E. Patsouris