Savvas Papadopoulos PATHOLOGIST Director, Pathology Laboratory

Doctoral thesis:

• “Effect of drugs on the absorption kinetics of p-amino ippurico and D-xylosio in isolated mouse intestine ” Medical School of the University of Siena, Italy

Board Member

• Board Member of the Greek Society of General Pathology in two terms 1996-97 & 1998-99.
• Member of the Scientific Council in Hygeia Hospital in two terms in the years 1999-2000 and 2007-2009.
• Board Member of the Greek Society Mastology in two terms from 2003 until 2008.
• President of the scientific non-profit organization “Drama against cancer from 2014 until now.

Member of scientific Societies

• European Society Medical Oncology (ESMO)
• European Society of Pathology (ESP)
• College of American Pathologist (CAP)
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 
• International Academy Of Pathology (IAP)
• Greek Society of Pathology
• Greek Society of Digestive Oncology
• Greek Society of Mastology

Editorial Boards

• Editor of the scientific journal “Mastologia” until 2010
• Member of the editorial board of scientific Greek medical journals

• General practitioner in the army from May 1982 until November 1983
• Obligatory Suburban Services from February 1984 until Jun 1986
• Resident in Pathology at EVANGELISMOS Hospital in Athens until 1990
• I worked in the Pathology Department of Hygeia Hospital as Consultant under the direction of Dr. Basil Tsakraklidis, from 1990 until 1999 and as Deputy Director from 1999 until 2004 when I took over the management of the Laboratory until now.

Education Experience

• Lecturer in the post-graduation program of Pathology Department at Medical School of Athens 
• Lecturer in Hellenic School of Mastology
• Correlator in clinical and experimental thesis “Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST). Clinical experience and new therapeutic frontiers” of Sachitzi Doctor in of Medicine and Surgery school of the University of Bari (ITALY).
• Supervisor of thesis work titled: “The technique Tissue Microarray for paraffin blocks in combination with the method of immunohistochemistry,” prepared by the student of TEI Athens Medical Laboratories Ms. Pantzartzi.
• Supervisor of Graduate Education in the training program for the FISH technique of Ms Konstantina Plastiras, Biologist of Tissue-nology Embryology Department of Medicine, University of Athens
• Participation in the doctoral thesis entitled “Study of apoptosis and angiogenesis in patients with operable breast cancer or non-small cell lung cancer,” prepared in Medicine Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Internist Oncologist Dr. Timotheadou
• Moderator and speaker at medical conferences round tables.
• Organization and coordination of educational meetings, seminars and medical conferences.
• State Scientific and Organizing Committees of Greek and international medical conferences.
• Speaker at information meetings-events for the public on cancer

• Breast cancer
• Lung cancer
• GI
• GIST
• CNS neoplasms
• Molecular Pathology
• Predictive and Prognostic Factors in Targeted Cancer Therapy
• Quality Assurance Systems

Awards

• 1st Prize poster presentation 11th Hellenic National Congress of Clinical Chemistry 2013
• 1st Prize oral presentation at the 10th Hellenic National Conference of Gastroenterology
• 3rd Prize poster presentation at Pan American Congress of Gastroenterology, USA, 1993
• Praise Academy of Athens

Books

• Participation in the publication “MODERN Mastology” of Pashalidis publications writing the Chapter “Histopathology of Invasive breast carcinomas” 549-556, 2007
• Participation in the publication «LUNG CANCER Diagnosis and Treatment» writing the Chapter Histologic Classification of lung Cancer 11-19, ATHENS 2005
• «GIST Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors” Athens 2002 Under the auspices of the Greek Society of Pathology and the Greek Department of IAP (International Academy of Pathology)

• ATRX CAN OCCUR IN IDH WILD-TYPE GBM A. Vernadou · E. Skarpidi · G. Rigakos · S. Papadopoulos · V. Kourvelos · S. Labropoulos · E. Razis Nov 2015 · Neuro-Oncolog
• Childhood central nervous system tumour mortality and survival in Southern and Eastern Europe (1983-2014): Gaps persist across 14 cancer registries Maria A Karalexi · Paraskevi Papathoma · Thomas P Thomopoulos· Anton Ryzhov · Anna Zborovskaya · Nadya Dimitrova · Snezana Zivkovic · Sultan Eser · Luis Antunes · Mario Sekerija · […] · Katerina Manolitsi · Georgios Orphanidis · Savvas Papadopoulos · Mathilda Papathanasiou · Eustratios Patsouris · Spyros Sgouros · Basilios Zountsas · Maria Moschovi · Eva Steliarova-Foucher · Eleni Th Petridou · Sep 2015 · European Journal of Cancer
• RESULTS OF TRANSPERINEAL MAPPING BIOPSY OF THE PROSTATE Vasileios Skouteris · Marios Metsinis Athanassios Dounis ·Thomas Georgiadis · Ioulia Evangelou · Dimitrios Papaioannou · Savvas Papadopoulos Michael Skouteris · Spyros Yarmenitis ·Georgios Zacharopoulos · Nelson Stone Apr 2015 · The Journal of Urology

• Central retesting of breast cancer with HER2 immunohistochemistry score of 0 or 1+ using silver-enhanced in situ hybridisation: A multicentre, prospective study in Greece Savvas Papadopoulos · Petroula Arapantoni-Dadioti · Konstantinos Sfikas · Artemis Stylianidou Helen Trichia · Eleftheria Katsamagou· Vaia Baleki · Johannes Noe Jan 2014 · Forum of Clinical Oncology

• EGFR mutations in Lung Adenocarcinomas and correlation with p63 and TTF1 Immunohistochemical expression in Greek population Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice Vol 20, No 3, June 2014  Savvas Papadopoulos, Marianna Mitratza, Chrysanthi Bili, Athanasios Krasas, Ioanna Saratsiotou, Kyrkou Elizabeth, Lina Florentin, Kosmas Iliadis, Paris Kosmidis 

• «Σύστημα εσωτερικού και εξωτερικού ποιοτικού ελέγχου των εξετάσεων που διενεργούνται στα σημεία φροντίδας των ασθενών ή εξετάσεις “παρά την κλίνη ” του ασθενούς, point of care testing (POCT)»  11ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Κλινικής Χημείας 11?12 Οκτωβρίου 2013. Κ. Μπελογιάννης, Χ. Μαντή– Σαφιολέα, Β. Πρασόπουλος, Ε. Σκαρπίδη, Δ. Κωστελίδου, Α. Κανελόπουλο, Χ. Βασιλειάδη, Α. Γκαβαρδίνα, Μ. Δρίβα, Σ. Παπαδόπουλος 

• Molecular predictors of response to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 09/2012; 31(1):77.  Samuel Murray, Vasilios Karavasilis, Mattheos Bobos, Evangelia Razis, Savvas Papadopoulos, Christos Christodoulou, Paris Kosmidis, George Fountzilas 

• All about KRAS for clinical oncology practice: gene profile, clinical implications and laboratory recommendations for somatic mutational testing in colorectal cancer. Cancer Treatment Reviews 05/2011; 37(3):221-33.  Helena Linardou, Evangelos Briasoulis, Issa J Dahabreh, Giannis Mountzios, Christos Papadimitriou, Savvas Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Bafaloukos, Paris Kosmidis, Samuel Murray 

• Detection of occult HER2 mRNA-positive tumor cells in the peripheral blood of patients with operable breast cancer: evaluation of their prognostic relevance. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 02/2009 Stella Apostolaki, Maria Perraki, Galatea Kallergi, Maria Kafousi, Savvas Papadopoulos, Athanasios Kotsakis, Athanasios Pallis,Nikolaos Xenidis, Lyda Kalmanti, Kostas Kalbakis, Sofia Agelaki,Antonia Kalykaki, Christos Stournaras, Efstathios Stathopoulos,Vassilis Georgoulias, Dimitris Mavroudis 

• Comparison of HER2 Detection Methods Between Central and Regional La-boratories in Greece Clinical Breast Cancer, Vol.7, N.10, p.784-790, Oct. 2007,  Savvas Papadopoulos, George Kouvatseas, Dimosthenis Skarlos, Nikolaos Malamos, Eleftheria Delliou, loanna Saratsiotou, Alexandras Ardavanis, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Evangelia Skarpidi, Petroula Arapantoni, Irini Karyda, Frideriki Patakioyta, Gerasimos Aravantinos, Evangelia Razis, George Fountzilas, Paris