Invited Lectures

Invited Lectures (updated: 2014)

National/local

  1. «The psychological dimension of Infammatory Bowel Disease», Session: «Quality of life of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease», 7th National Meeting on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Athens, 1-2/6/2001.
  2. «The Grammar of Diagnosis: The Role of Ego Defense Mechanisms» 1st Spring Meeting of North-Western Greece on the New Practices in Psychiatric Care, Perdika, Thesprotia, 7-9/6/ 2002.
  3. «The basic role of psychoanalysis as an invitation and road towards a poetic living on earth»; Symposium-workshop: «Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy under the Greek light», 4th Scientific Meeting «Psychiatry and Human Studies: The Mutual Contribution», Kozani, Greece, 20-22/9/2002.
  4. «The joint operation of a mobile mental health unit and a rehabilitation guest-house in a rural area». Meeting «De-institutionalization and its relationship with the Primary Care”, Athens, 16-18/5/ 2002.
  5. «Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Medically Ill patients with Depression»; Session: «Depression in the General Hospital», 2nd Medical Conference in Epirus, Ioannina, 10-12/10/2002.
  6. «Burnout Syndrome in Community Psychiatric Services – Data – Suggestions for Prevention»; Session: «The need of acknowledgement of burnout as a professional illness», Meeting «Burnout Syndrome in Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Psychiatric Activities», Athens, 19/9/2003.
  7. «Comorbidity of Psychiatric and Physical Illnesses», Symposium: «Mental Disorders in Physical Illness», 2nt National Conference on Primary Mental Health, Nafplio, 30-1/11/2003.
  8. «Aspects of the Patients’ Experience During Involuntary Hospitalization in Clinical Practice», Lecture in the local conference, «Mental Illness, Involuntary Admission and Human Rights», Ioannina, 6/12/2003.
  9. «The Meaning of Time in Psychotherapy»; Scientific Meeting of the Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina «Understanding and Managing Time», Kapesovo, Ioannina, 25-26/9/2004.
  10. «Treatment of Depression in the Medically Ill»; Session: «Depression in the medically ill», 18th Medical Meeting, Ioannina, 15-16/10/2004.
  11. «The Psycho-emotional Development of the Adolescents». 14th Scientific Meeting in Paediatrics «From Being a Child to Being an Adolescent», Ioannina, 23-24/10/2004,
  12. «Meditation-Hypnosis-Spirituality»; 7th Scientific Meeting in Rheumatology in North-Western Greece, «The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rheumatology», Metsovo, Ioannina, 28-30/1/2005.
  13. «From ‘For Ever’ to ‘Not Forever and Not Anymore’»; Meeting of the Greek Existential-Phenomenological Analysis and Psychotherapy Association, Athens, 20/4/2005.
  14. «Anorexia Nervosa», 3rd Scientific Meeting of Nurses in Epirus, Ioannina 8-10/12/2005,
  15. «Pilot programmes for the Liaison of Secondary Psychiatric Services with Community-Based Services»; Meeting organised by the local town council, Ioannina, 7/4/2006
  16. «Are Autoimmune Diseases Equivalent to Depression?»; Symposium: «Liaison Psychiatry: From Research to Clinical Practice», 19th National Psychiatric Conference Athens, 4-6/5/2006
  17. «Growing old…», Lecture in local conference «Mental Health in Old Age», 3//2006.
  18. «The Role of the Body Image in Psychological Development». 6th Scientific Meeting, «The Body in Psychiatry», Kozani, 16-18/6/2006.
  19. «Depression in General Hospital in the Context of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry». Scientific Meeting «Depression in Primary Health Care», Metsovo 9-10/2/2007
  20. «Rehabilitation Guest Houses as Part of the Community Mental Health Network», Local meeting, Psychiatric Hospital of Chania, Crete, 23/5/2007.
  21. «Development and Operation of a Mobile Mental Health Unit in a Rural Area», Meeting of the Mobile Mental Health Unit of Corfu, Corfu, 11-12/5/2009.
  22. «Anxiety and Physical Illness», 4th Scientific Meeting «Psychiatry in Primary Health Care», Arta, Greece, 27/5/2009.
  23. «The role of skin in normal and abnormal development»; Symposium: «Dermatology-Psycho-Dermatology», Lecture in the 1st National Conference of Subspecialties in Dermatology, Athens 25/9/2009.
  24. «The role of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in Rehabilitation Units»; 1st Conference on the Rehabilitation of Degenerative Disease of the Spinal Cord, Ioannina, 27/10/2009.
  25. «Development and Operation of Consultation-Liaison Services», Meeting of the Psycho-Therapeutic Centre of Group Analysis, Ioannina, 16/1/2010
  26. «Psychodynamic Dimensions of the Treatment Decision Making and Quality of Life of Patients with Cancer», 1st Conference on Bio-psycho-social Approach in Medical Care, Thessaloniki, 17-19/3/2011.
  27. «Somatization, Defensive Profile and Quality of life in Chronic Medically Ill Patients»; Symposium «The Psychoanalyst at the Medically Ill Patient’s Side», 21st National Psychiatric Conference, Athens 5-8/5/2011
  28. «Independent Consultation-Liaison Units in the General Hospital: Potential, Problems and Perspectives», Symposium «Consultation-Liaison Services in Greece», 21st National Psychiatric Conference, Athens 5-8/5/2011.
  29. “Mobile Mental Health Units and Primary Care: A Chance for the Development of Collaborative Care in Psychiatry”, 4th National Conference of the Mobile Mental Health Units, Metsovo, Ioannina, 8/10/2011.
  30. ‘The Experience of the Operation of the Mobile Mental Health Unit of the Prefectures of Ioannina and Thesprotia and its Contribution to the Local Psychiatric Services». Meeting for the opening of the Mobile Mental Health Unit of Corfu, Corfu 10/11/2011
  31. “Psyche and Quality of Life in Patients with Cancer’. 1st Educational Meeting in Psychosomatic Medicine under the auspice of the International Society of Neurobiology and Psychopharmacology, the World Psychiatric Association and the 3rd Department of Psychiatry, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 15/10/2011.
  32. «Psychological Distress, Personality and Chronic Physical Illness», 2nd Conference on Bio-Psycho-Social Approach in Medical Care, Thessaloniki, 15-17/3/2012.
  33. «Unemployment and Psychological Distress», Meeting for the World Mental Health Day, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, 11/10/ 2012.

International

  1. «Quality of Life in Patients with Scleroderma»; Invited lecture at the 3rd World Congress in Quality in Clinical Practice, Thessaloniki, Greece, 28/9- 1/10/2006.
  2. «The Psychodynamically-Oriented C-L Unit of the University Hoapital of Ioannina, Greece»; Invited lecture at the C-L unit of the Manchester Royal Infirmary (12/5/2008).
  3. “Somatization and Chronic Physical illness”; Invited lecture at the Spinal Cord Injury Centre, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, Middlesex, London (Prof. George Ikkos, Associate Medical Director, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, then Treasurer of the Royal College of Psychiatrists); November 10, 2008.
  4. ‘The role of Psychological Distress, Somatization and Personality Traits in the Formation of IBD patients” Health-Related Quality of Life and Smoking Habits’; Workshop ‘Liaison Psychiatry: Psychiatric illness in Inflammatory Bowel Disease’, 19th European Congress of Psychiatry, Vienna, Austria 12-15/3/2011.
  5. “The role of personality in the formation of long-term medical illness’s outcome”; Invited lecture at the Psychiatry Division of the Department of Clinical Medicine,Federal University of Ceara, CE, Brazil (4.1.2012).
  6. «Consultation-Liaison Units in Greece: The C-L Unit of the University Hospital of Ioannina»; 29th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research (ECPR) & 15th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Association for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (EACLPP) “Towards a New Agenda: Cross-disciplinary Approach to Psychosomatic Medicine”, Aarhus, Denmark, 27–30 /6/2012.

Lectures in the community

  1. Co-organiser and invited speaker at the conference organised in collaboration with the 4th Centre for Older Adults in Ioannina titled «Mental Health in Old Age», Ioannina, 3/6/2006.
  2. Invited lecture in the Association of Friends of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis titled «Multiple Sclerosis and Mental Health», Ioannina, 3/6/2009.
  3. Invited lecture «Unemployment and Mental Health» at the Epirus Studies Society, in the context of a series of lectures of social-medical content organised by the Society in collaboration with the Medical School of the University of Ioannina, Ioannina 6/4/2012.

Media interviews – Broadcasting

  1. Interview on the local TV channel TV1 regarding the development and the operation of the Mobile Mental Health Unit of the prefectures of Ioannina and Thesprotia, Ioannina, December 2007.
  2. Interview on the local TV channel TV1 regarding the development and the operation of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Unit, Ioannina, 24/2/2010.
  3. Interview on the radio channel “Greek Radio” regarding the relationship between Unemployment and Psychological Distress, Ioannina, 24/10/2012.