Roxani Efthimiadou RADIOLOGIST Director, PET-CT Department, & Associate Director of CT, MRI & Bone Densitometry Department

• PhD title: Contribution of HRCT in diagnosis of pulmonary lesions related to rheumatic diseases and correlation of the findings of this technique with clinical and laboratory indexes. (University of Athens).

• Board member of Empakan (Hellenic Medical Society for the Study of Risk Factors in Vascular Diseases). 

• Current professional position: Director of CT, MRI & Bone Densitometry Department, “Hygeia & Mitera” Hospitals, Athens, Greece. 
• Former consultant Radiologist of CT & MRI Department of “Kyanous Stavros” Clinic, Athens, Greece.
• During specialization in Radiology: , Konstantopouleio-“Aghia Olga” General Hospital of N.Ionia-Attiki, Areteion University Hospital of Athens.

Εducation Experience:

• Lectures, as invited speaker, in Medical Congresses & Postgraduate Courses: In total, one hundred twenty two (122) lectures in national (105) & international 17) meetings (up to the end of 2015).

Clinical Interest:

• PET-CT,CT, MRI 
• Coronary CT angiography
• Oncological Imaging
• Interventional Radiology under CT guidance
• Teleradiology

Research Interest:

• Scientific Presentations in Medical Congresses: In total one hundred twenty three (123), 55 in international & 68 in national congresses.
• Publications:fifty two 52, of which twenty eight (28) in international & twenty four (24) in national medical journals.

• President of Scientific Union of Hygeia Doctors (S.U.H.D.)03/03/2009-27/03/2011. 
• 2nd award of poster presentation : The role of PET/CT in restaging of Colorectal Cancer”. 14th United European Gastrenterology Week. Berlin, Germany, 21-25/10/200 (.Efthimiadou R, Roussakis A, Gogou L, Pagou M, Laspas F, Malamitsi J, Andreou J).

In “CT Coronary Angiography, Andreou I.-Gouliamos A., eds. Konstantaras Medical Publications, Athens 2010.

• The clinical significance of calcium scoring.
• Safety and radiation issues.

Lymphatic system diseases, V.Tsakraklides. Tsevelekakis Medical Publications, 2011.

• Imaging in thymic diseases
• Imaging in spleenic diseases
• Imaging in lymph node diseases

Clinical Nephrology. P.Zerogiannis, Athens 2007

• Τthe role of MRI in investigation of renal diseases .

“Imaging in Clinical Oncology”, Gouliamos AD, Andreou JA & Kosmidis PA, eds. Springer 2014.

• Melanoma : imaging findings 
• NM Findings: PET-CT in lung cancer .

• Association between habitual physical activity and brown adipose tissue activity in individuals undergoing PET-CT scan Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2015 Jan;82(1):147-54. doi: 10.1111/cen.12620. Epub 2014 Oct 27.
• Imaging of Coronary Artery bypass Grafts by Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol 2013;42:241-248
• Correlation of radiation dose and heart rate in dual-source computed tomography coronary angiography. Acta Radiol. 2011;52:273-7.
• «Percutaneous CT-guided fine-needle aspiration of pulmonary lesions: results and complications in 409 patients. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology 2008; 52:458-462. 
• Medical workers operating in nuclear medicine vs PET/CT: Radiation exposure comparison. European Journal of Medical Physics 2014 Sept: x.doi.org /10.1016/ j.ejmp .2014.07.100