Athanasios Diamandopoulos

Who is Athanasios Diamandopoulos?

Athanasios Diamandopoulos is a Greek doctor and writer on medicine.

He was born in the town of Arginio, Greece, in 1943 and spent his childhood in Patras and Ioannina. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1967 and in 1974 finished his specialization in Pathology at the Therapeutic Unit of the "Alexandra" Hospital in Athens. During the same year he left for Glasgow, having won a state scholarship. He returned to Greece in 1978 with the titles of PhD from the University of Athens, Philosophiae Doctorem from the University of Glasgow, a specialization in Nephrology, and a Scottish wife.

Upon his return he was placed at the Renal Unit of the Regional State Hospital "Agios Andreas" in Patras, where he still works as Head of the Department today. In 1986 he became an associate professor at the University of Athens, and in 1996 he graduated in Archaeology from the University of Ionannina. During the same year he went to London where he conducted research on the History of Medicine at the Welcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

He acted as president of the Medical Society of Southern Greece for seven years. He is currently president of the International Society for the History of Medicine, the UNESCO Committee for the History of Medicine, the Greek Society for the History and Archaeology of Medicine and a member of the administrative councils of the International Association of the History of Nephrology, the Commission for the History if Nephrology and the International Society for the History of Nephrology.