Prof. Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis

Germany

Professor of Internal Medicine. Director of Master (MSc) Program of Infectious Diseases, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, ATTIKON University Hospital, Greece. Guest Professor, Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena University Hospital, Germany.

Professor Giamarellos-Bourboulis is an internal medicine and infectious diseases specialist. His main research contribution is immunomodulation in sepsis and in auto-inflammatory disorders, for which he was awarded the Young Investigator Research Award by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He has received a total of 39 awards for his studies on sepsis and has published 433 peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals.

Professor Giamarellos-Bourboulis is a leading expert in immunomodulatory treatment of septic shock and he has contributed to the recognition of hidradenitis suppurativa as an auto-inflammatory disorder. He is the current President of the European Shock Society, chairs the Hellenic Sepsis Study Group and he is the coordinator of Hellenic Sepsis Study Group (www.sepsis.gr).