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Prof Spyridon Konitsiotis received his degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ioannina in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the same Faculty in 1990 with the thesis topic "Neuropharmacology and Functional Anatomy of the Basic Ganglia". He is a Neurologist and Professor of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ioannina. He was a fellow of the Alexander Onassis Foundation and a Fellow of the American Parkinson's Disease Association and of the National Parkinson Foundation at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. His research interests focus on motor diseases, neuropharmacology, Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis. He has more than 130 publications in scientific journals, conferences and books in books, and has received more than 3.400 citations (h-index=31). He has significant clinical experience in patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. He also has specialized training on subjects such as: extrapyramidal diseases, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) as well as selection, preparation, intraoperative assessment, postoperative monitoring, regulation and programming of electrical stimulus parameters in patients with electrodes implanted in basal ganglia (deep brain stimulation).

Prof Dimitrios I. Fotiadis received the Diploma degree in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering and materials science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1990. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, where he is also the Director of the Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, and is also an Affiliated Member of Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Dept. of Biomedical Research. He was a Visiting Researcher at the RWTH, Aachen, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He has coordinated and participated in more than 200 R&D funded projects. He is the author or coauthor of more than 250 papers in scientific journals, 450 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and more than 50 chapters in books. He is also the editor or coeditor of 35 books. His work has received more than 12.000 citations (h-index=57). He is IEEE EMBS Fellow, Technical Committee of information Technology in Healthcare, Editor in Chief of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and Associate Editor for Computers in Biology and Medicine. His research interests include multiscale modeling of human tissues and organs, intelligent wearable/implantable devices for automated diagnosis, processing of big medical data, sensor informatics, image informatics, and bioinformatics. He is the recipient of many scientific awards including the one by the Academy of Athens.Prof Dimitrios I. Fotiadis received the Diploma degree in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering and materials science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1990. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, where he is also the Director of the Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, and is also an Affiliated Member of Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Dept. of Biomedical Research. He was a Visiting Researcher at the RWTH, Aachen, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He has coordinated and participated in more than 200 R&D funded projects. He is the author or coauthor of more than 250 papers in scientific journals, 450 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and more than 50 chapters in books. He is also the editor or coeditor of 35 books. His work has received more than 12.000 citations (h-index=57). He is IEEE EMBS Fellow, Technical Committee of information Technology in Healthcare, Editor in Chief of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and Associate Editor for Computers in Biology and Medicine. His research interests include multiscale modeling of human tissues and organs, intelligent wearable/implantable devices for automated diagnosis, processing of big medical data, sensor informatics, image informatics, and bioinformatics. He is the recipient of many scientific awards including the one by the Academy of Athens.

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