J. Dimitroulis

I was born in Chios, Greece (Hellas). I graduated from the Athens University Medical School. Positions held: Officer and Medical Doctor of the Hellenic Army at the 414 Military Hospital for Thoracic Diseases (Athens, Greece) 1989-1991. Senior House Officer at the Athens University Clinic for Respiratory diseases, "Sotiria" Hospital for Thoracic Diseases (Athens, Greece) 1991-1995. PhD Thesis started in 1993, completed in 1998. It was awarded the First prize of the Hellenic Thoracic Society for research on COPD. Registrar in Pulmonary Medicine at "Sotiria" Hospital for Thoracic Diseases (Athens, Greece) 1998-2000 and 2002-2005. Honorary Registrar (Associate Specialist) in Pulmonary Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital (Imperial College) 2000-2002, London, UK. Visiting doctor at St Mary's Hospital, London, UK (Sleep Studies department). Senior Consultant Physician in Pulmonary Medicine at "Sotiria" Hospital for Thoracic Diseases" 2005-present. I am practicing interventional bronchoscopy for Lung Cancer diagnosis, staging and palliative treatment, including photodynamic therapy, EBUS-TBNA, and stent placement. I have a keen interest in Lung Cancer Chemotherapy. Main interests for which I received additional training in London, UK: Lung Cancer (under Dr Pallav Shah), Occupational and Environmental Diseases with an emphasis on Occupational Asthma, Occupationa Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma (under Prof. Newman-Taylor and Dr Paul Cullinan), Interstitial Lung Diseases (under Prof. Ron DuBois and Prof. Athol Wells), Sleep Polysomnography (under Dr Michael Polkey), Respiratory Physiology and Sleep Polysomnography (under Dr Anita Simmonds). Besides my current in-clinic duties, I am practicing an outpatients' clinic, for those with Lung Cancer, Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD), and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) requiring treatment with endothelin receptor antagonists, in a major hospital.