George Chrousos, MD, MACP, MACE, FRCP

Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics & Endocrinology Director, Univ. Research Institute for Maternal-Child Health and Precision Medicine UNESCO Chair, Adolescent Health & Medicine, National & Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens President, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Distinguished Investigator Emeritus, NICHD, NIH

Introduction to the Keynote speaker:

Dr. George Chrousos is the world’s leading scientific authority of stress and stress physiology. He is a member of the Athens Academy. Born in Patras, Greece, he is a Greek-American pediatrician, endocrinologist, neurobiologist and one of the world’s foremost medical clinical researchers. He serves as Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece and as Director of University Research Institute of Maternal And Child Health & Precision Medicine. He currently also holds the UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care. He is one of the 250 most cited scientists internationally (ISI highly cited), included not only in the list of Clinical Medicine, but also in that of Biology and Biochemistry, and is the highest cited clinical pediatrician or endocrinologist in the world.