RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Ann E. Thompson, MD

Medical Director for

Clinical Resource Management

Job Title Professor,

Critical Care Medicine,

Anesthesiology and Pediatrics,

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Job Title Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 5

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Phone 412-692-5164  412-692-5164      

412-692-5164

412-692-5164      

Fax 412-692-7076

Email thompsonae@ccm.upmc.edu

Stratakis, Constantine

Head, Program on Developmental Endocrinology & Genetics, NICHD/DIR/DEB/SEG

Scientific Director, NICHD, NIH

http://segen.nichd.nih.gov/

CV: http://cid-a2107eb072244f18.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Workgroup%201%20CV/Stratakis-CV-updated[1].pdf

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)The goal of the Section on Genetics and Endocrinology's (SEGEN) work is to understand the genetic and molecular mechanisms leading to disorders that affect the adrenal cortex, with emphasis on those that are hereditary and associated with multiple tumors and abnormalities in other endocrine glands (i.e. the pituitary gland) and tissues of neuroectodermal origin (i.e. the melanocytes). Our laboratory has studied families with Carney complex (CC) and through genetic linkage analysis, the participation of the two genomic loci harboring genes for CC (on chromosomes 2 and 17) in the expression of the disease is being investigated. Studies in cultured primary tumor cell lines (established from our patients) identified a region of amplification in the center of this map. A genome wide screen is also ongoing in our laboratory for the identification of the gene(s) responsible for inherited adrenocortical aldosteronomas ; additional work is being done collaboratively on the genetics of stress and hormonal response.

Dimitris Georgopoulos

Professor of Medicine

& ICU Director,

Department of Intensive

Care Medicine,

University Hospital of Heraklion,

University of Crete, Heraklion,

Crete, Greece

Tel: 6944727501 Fax : +30281392636                        

e-mail : georgop@med.uoc.gr

http://www.armyicu.gr/cv__en.htm

http://www.uoc.gr/Department/index.html

RESEARCH LABORATORIES OF INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

The Animal Laboratory of ICU studies the mechanisms of acute lung injury and ventilator-induced lung injury using animal models. The Laboratory of Sleep Studies of the Critically Ill studies sleep quality and disorders of ICU patients. The Laboratory of Respiratory System Mechanics studies the physiology of the respiratory system in mechanically ventilated patients and lung models, and the mechanisms of ventilator-induced lung injury.

Shekhar T. Venkataraman

Professor, CCM and Pediatrics

Department of Critical

Care Medicine

University of Pittsburgh,

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

3550 Terrace Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Tel 412 647-7980  412 647-7980      

412 647-7980           412 647-7980       

Fax : 412 647-8060

e-mail : venkataramanst@ccm.upmc.edu

http://www.ccm.pitt.edu/archive/faculty/bios

/VenkataramanS.html

In collaboration with the Clinical Chemistry Lab of the University of Crete it expands its research interests on the role of immune-nutrition and hormonal and inflammatory indices in animal models, including those which belong to the HPAA and chaperokines, on several physiological stressful situations such as the inflammatory stress and sepsis. For our studies we use wild type and knockout mice, cell cultures and several techniques such as: 1) Molecular Biology techniques, 2) RNA isolation 3) Real-Time PCR and RT-PCR 4) Protein isolation, 5) Western blotting 6) EMSA 7) ELISA 8) FACS 9) In collaboration with NICHD lab, NIH, we also work on projects on cAMP pathways and behavior in stress using  mice KO for R1a and Ca subunits of the PKA pathways.

Venihaki Maria, MD

Assistant Professor

Clinical Biochemistry

University of Crete

Heraklion, Crete, GREECE

Tel 2810394583 

Fax 22810394583 : e-mail : venihaki@med.uoc.gr

http://www.uoc.gr/Department/index.html

Serafim Nanas

Ass Professor of Intensive Care,

First Critical Care Department,

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Evangelismos Hospital,

Ypsilantou 45-47, 106 75,

Athens, Greece

Tel 2107201918, 6973036448                       

Fax e-mail : serafimnanas@med.uoa.gr

http://en.uoa.gr/

http://s3-051-ccavs.protocol.gr/0000000000/index.html

First Critical Care Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

This is the largest ICU in Greece all the time busy with severe medical and surgical patients allocated in 3 major subunits. Research projects and experience with critically ill patients with organic failures, such as studying the effects of interval exercise training on respiratory drive in patients with chronic heart failure, the improvement in respiratory muscle dysfunction with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices and antibiotic resistance in sepsis in intensive care unit: risk factors, clinical features and outcomes. There is extensive work on shock – especially hemodynamic – and also with prospective studies, treatment outcomes in patients with sepsis, physiology of hemodynamics and oxygen consumption and experimental studies.

Petrikkos G,

Professor of Medicine

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,

Medical School,

4th Dpt. of Internal Medicine,

Attikon University General Hospital,

Athens, Greece.

Tel 210-5831889-90, 210-58326426 Fax : 210-5326446                                      

e-mail : petrikos@med.uoa.gr , petrikos@hol.gr

http://en.uoa.gr/

http://www.attikonhospital.gr/index.php?lng=En

Daikos GL,

Ass Professor of Intensive Care,

First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine,

Research Laboratory of infectious diseases,

University of Athens,

Athens, Greece.

Tel 694414480    Fax : 2107462635                             

e-mail : gdaikos@med.uoa.gr

http://en.uoa.gr/

http://www.laiko.gr/

Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis

Assistant Professor of Medicine,

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,

Medical School,

Fourth Department of Internal Medicine

ATTIKON University Hospital

Athens, Greece.

Tel: +302106032959         Fax : 2105326446

e-mail : giamarel@ath.forthnet.gr

http://www.zoominfo.com/search#search/profile/person?personId=1208929349&targetid=profile

http://en.uoa.gr/

http://www.attikonhospital.gr/index.php?lng=En

CV

http://cid-a2107eb072244f18.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Workgroup%203%20CV/Giamarellos%20E%20CV[1].pdf

Management of infections by multidrug-resistant bacterial species with the application of peroxidative susbstances and particularly of polyunsaturated fatty acids

Immunomodulatory therapies for sepsis

Immunomodulatory effect of macrolides

Innate immunity in hidradenitis suppuarativa

Biological therapies for hidradenitis suppurativa

In vitro activities of antimicrobials and their interactions on multidrug-resistant species

Pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials

Pathogenesis of sepsis

First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine,

Research Laboratory of infectious diseases,

University of Athens,

Athens, Greece.

The lab of Infectious diseases of the 1^st Propaideutiki Clinic of Internal Medicine of Athens university focuses on clinical microbiology which is a specific combination of knowledge, attitude and practice aimed at direct clinical involvement in infectious disease management using the core principles of medical microbiology and clinical medicine. Clinical aspects include management of positive blood cultures, management of patients in intensive care units (ICUs), hospital infection control and public health microbiology, development of hospital and community anti-infective policy, organization of clinical-microbiological meetings and provision of emergency out-of-hours service. The economic and epidemiologic impact of broad-spectrum antibiotic use is assessed using research protocols, along with methodology of antimicrobial susceptibility testing and the potential value of an antibiogram.