He received his Diploma Degree from the National Technical University of Athens and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He worked as Visiting Researcher in MIT, USA, (1990-91) and RWTH, Germany (1992) and as director of EGNATIA EPIRUS Foundation (1993-1995). He is currently Associate Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Ioannina (since 1996). He is the Director of the Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems and his major research interests include computational medicine, biomedical engineering and high – performance computing. He is the author of twelve books and more than one hundred and seventy papers in scientific journals and international conference proceedings. He coordinates the information technologies center of the University of Ioannina as well as the Science and Technology Park of Epirus. He is also the director of the wireless ATM network Epirus – Net which provides telemedicine and teleworking services in the Region of Epirus.

 

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Marc Arbyn obtained his MD diploma in 1984 at the University of Ghent; he obtained diplomas of MD in tropical medicine and an MSc degree in tropical epidemiology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. After a career of 10 years in Africa with Médecins Sans Frontières, he got involved in cancer research in Europe. Marc Arbyn is currently Coordinator for the Evaluation of New Screening Methods in the framework of the European Network of Cervical Cancer Screening. Since 1995, Dr. Arbyn coordinates the Unit of Cancer Screening within the Scientific Institute for Public Health in Brussels. Since 2001, he was appointed to lead the evaluation of organized breast cancer screening in Belgium. One of his main activities deals with systematic review and meta-analysis regarding screening or diagnostic methods. Another point of his interests consists in trend and spatial analysis of cancer incidence and mortality.

 

 

Matthias Ebert graduated from the University of Ulm in 1995 and worked as a post-doctorate researcher in the Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory of Prof. Murray Korc at the University of Irvine (California, Irvine). After moving back to Germany he joined Prof. Malfertheiner at the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (University of Magdeburg) and established a research group focussing on the molecular biology of gastric cancer. He published more than 50 articles on this and other related topics. He is member of several German and US gastroenterological and cancer associations and also serves as Assistant Editor of another GI journal. His main research interests are the molecular biology and pathogenesis of gastric cancer, including proteome analysis, molecular biology and clinical management of GI cancer patients.

Joshua Fogel has a PhD in Clinical Health Psychology from Yeshiva University (USA), completed his Clinical Psychology internship at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (Canada), and fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University (USA). He is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York ( USA ). He is a journal editor-in-chief and has published or accepted for publication over 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His breast cancer research focuses on the psychological aspects of Internet use. He also studies a variety of behavioral medicine topics and also the cultural aspects of individuals with medical and/or psychiatric illnesses.

He received his Degree from the Department of Biological Sciences of Unversity of Athens and his Ph.D. from the Medical Faculty of University of Athens. He worked as Associate Director in the Department of Medical Genetics in University of Odense in Denmark 1992-1994 and he has been Associate Professor in the Medical Faculty of this University. He has been Associate Professor in Lund University in Sweden in the same field since 1995. He is currently the Director of the Department of Genetics in Saint Savas Anticancer Hospital. His contribution to the field of Cancer Genetics has been translated into more than 1830 citations of his 100 publications. He has also been invited to speak in several International meetings and he is reviewer in 6 international Journals. He is also a member of various local and International boards and committees related to his field of expertise.

 

Dr. Nicholas Pavlidis is Professor of Medical Oncology in the University of Ioannina, in Greece. He studied Medicine at the University of Athens. He was trained in Internal Medicine in a University Department in Athens. He did his bench research in the field of tumor immunology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. His clinical training in Medical Oncology was done at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, U.K. He was secretary in the Early Clinical Trials Group of EORTC and is still an active member. He was chairman of European School of Oncology Office for the Balkans and Middle East and is still an active member of the ESO Program Committee. He is also member of the ESMO Education Committee and of the ESMO Guidelines Task Force. He is Member of the Editorial Board and Reviewer in 6 International Journals. He has approximately 200 publications in peer-reviewed International Journals and around 2000 citations.