Nikos Stefanis
Prof. of Psychiatry, Chairman First Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Eginition Hospital
Nikos C. Stefanis MD, PhD, FRANZCP, is the Chairman of the First Department of Psychiatry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School (NKUA-MS) at Eginition Teaching Hospital in Athens, Greece and vice-chairman of the University Mental Health Research Institute in Greece. He also chairs the First Episode Psychosis Task Force within the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and is a member of the Schizophrenia Network of the European College of Psychopharmacology (ECNP).
He trained in Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital / Institute of Psychiatry in London UK. He joined the faculty of the First Dep/ment of Psychiatry at the NKUA-MS in 1999 as a lecturer, receiving tenure in 2008. He was elected and served as Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia (2010-2013). He has published extensively aspects of his research in high impact international scientific journals including Molecular Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry and Schizophrenia Bulletin
He has received grants from the Greek Ministry of Research and Technology, the European Regional Development Fund, the NIMH (USΑ) and was the country coordinator for several large European Collaborative Projects.
His main academic interests have gravitated towards the better understanding of the complex interplay between genetic and environmental risk factors that shape the vulnerability for major psychiatric disorders and innovations in psychopharmacology. He is a vocal advocate for mental health reform in Greece