Konstantinos Zacharakis PSYCHIATRIST

• “Longitudinal Study of the Suicide Phenomenon in Greece” (1997, Aeginition Hospital, Athens University School of Medicine)

Editorial Boards

• Ad-hoc reviewer for peer-reviewed international journals

As a specialist in Psychiatry :

• University Mental Health Research Institute (ΜΟ.PA.PS.Y Unit) 
• South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre , London 
• Hospitals LETO (1997 – cont.) and MITERA (2005-cont.), consultant psychiatrist 
• Expert in Forensic Psychiatry (1998-cont.) 
• University Mental Health Research Institute (PSYCHARGOS Support Unit )
• HYGEIA Hospital (1999 – cont.), associate physician

Clinical Interest:

• Panic Disorder, Depression , Obsessive-Compulsive disorder, Psychoses (including treatment-resistant cases)
• Pregnancy and Postpartum depression and psychosis 
• Alcoholism

Research Interest:

• Psychosomatic Medicine
• Study and prevention of self-destructive behaviors

• 1st Award for Applied Research , from the Athens Medical Association (at the 20th Panhel-lenic Medical Congress) for the study “Anxiety and depression in a sample of end-stage renal disease patients on dialysis. Comparison to a sample of chronic respiratory patients” (Zacharakis C, Hadjidimoula A)

Medical Journals

• Zacharakis CA, Hadjivassilis V, Madianos MG, Papadimitriou GN, Stefanis CN. Sui-cide in Cyprus 1988-1999 Eur Psychiatry. 2005;20(2):110-4. PMID: 15797694
• Zacharakis CA, Madianos MG, Papadimitriou GN, Stefanis CN. Epidemiology of sui-cide in Greece: 1980-1997. Archives of Hellenic Medicine 2003;20(2):191-199 
• Zacharakis CA, Madianos MG, Papadimitriou GN, Stefanis CN. Suicide in Greece 1980-1995: patterns and social factors. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 1998 ;33(10):471-6. PMID: 9780809
• Madianos MG, Zacharakis C, Tsitsa C Development of quality of physical structure indicators: A nationwide study in public mental hospitals of Greece. European Journal of Psychiatry , 2004, 18(2):99-107
• Madianos MG, Zacharakis C, Tsitsa C, Stefanis C The mental health care delivery system in Greece: regional variation and socioeconomic correlates.. J Ment Health Policy Econ. 1999 1;2(4):169-176. PMID: 11967428
• Madianos MG, Zacharakis C, Tsitsa C. Utilization of psychiatric inpatient care in Greece: a nationwide study (1984-1996). Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2000;46(2):89-100.PMID: 10950357).
• Madianos MG, Tsiantis J, Zacharakis C. Changing patterns of mental health care in Greece (1984-1996 Eur Psychiatry. 1999 Dec;14(8):462-7. PMID:10683633
• Madianos MG, Zacharakis C, Tsitsa C, Stefanis C.Geographical variation in mental hospital discharges in Greece and socioeconomic correlates: a nationwide study (1978-1993). Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 1999;34(9):477-83. PMID:10541668

Citations : 130 (Sept. 2016)

• Zacharakis, K. “Psychoneuroimmunology” . In: Tsakraklides V(ed) : “Pathology of the Lymphatic System “(pp. 105-114), Athens 2011
• Alevizopoulos, A., Skondras M. Zacharakis, K. “Concepts and procedures in Greece” In . Salize, H and Dressing, H. (eds). “Placement and treatment of mentally disordered offenders-legislation and practice in European Union”, Pabst Science Pubs, Lengerich, 2005