EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER - Nikolaos Papanas
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Nikolaos Papanas is Associate Professor in Internal Medicine-Diabetes Mellitus at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has been specialised in diabetes and its complications in the Diabetes Center and the Diabetic Foot Clinic at Kings College Hospital, London, UK, as well as in the German Diabetes Center at the Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany. He has established an ongoing collaboration with the neuropathy study group of the German Diabetes Center in Dusseldorf. He has published more than 230 papers in peer-reviewed journals and serves in the editorial board of 25 international journals. He has also participated with numerous presentations in Greek and European medical congresses and repeatedly served as invited reviewer in medical journals. He has served in the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Society for Angiology. He is currently a member in the Executive Committee of the Study Group on Diabetes and Nervous System of the German Diabetes Association (DDG). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Greek Society for the Study of the Diabetic Foot. He has served as Secretary General and is currently the President of the Hellenic Diabetes Association. He is also Vice President of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
PAPANAS RESEARCH INTERESTS
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetic complications
Diabetic foot
Diabetic neuropathy
Medical writing
Vascular disease
Metabolic syndrome in OSAS and obesity