A study conducted at the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics (DHEMS) of the School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), provided a full-genome evolutionary analysis of the novel coronoa virus (2019-nCoV), responsible for the recent epidemic which initiated in Wuhan, China. The results of the study suggest that the 2019-nCoV…
One year after the passing of Assoc. Prof. Christina Bamia, the MSc Program on Biostatistics organizes an in memoriam event on December 16, 2019, 16:00-18:00, at the Amphitheater of Physiology in the premises of the School of Medicine. Attached you may find the invitation by the Director of the MSc program, Prof. Klea Katsouyanni with…
In the context of the 13th European Nutrition Conference organized by the British Nutrition Society and the Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS), Dr. Androniki Naska, Assoc. Professor in the Dept of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, presented the Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) for sodium intake for the European population. In her capacity as Vice-Chair…
On Saturday, November 2nd 2019, on the occasion of the World Breastfeeding Week, an event for the promotion of breastfeeding was organised in Athens by the Municipality of Attica with the scientific coordination of the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics (DHEMS). The theme was “Breastfeeding: a warm embrace, a healthy way of life”.…
In the context of the “2nd Round of the Greek ELIDEK Scholarships for Doctoral Candidates”, Dr. Charalampos Siotos, MD, a doctoral student at the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics (DHEMS), was awarded a scholarship for his dissertation on “Predictors and prognostic factors of surgical management/reconstruction in patients with breast cancer.” The aim of…
On October 29, 2019, Dr. Nicola Orsini, Assoc. Professor of Medical Statistics at the Dept. of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, visited the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics (DHEMS) and gave a seminar entitled: “Connecting the observed data is not a dose-response meta-analysis”. In his presentation, Dr. Orsini introduced the framework for…