Flora Bacopoulou

Dr Flora Bacopoulou is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics-Adolescent Medicine at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. She has both a Pharmacy and Medical Degree and a Ph.D. degree in Clinical Pharmacokinetics. She specialized in Pediatrics in the United Kingdom and further subspecialized in Adolescent Medicine. She completed an International Visiting Scholar Program in Adolescent Medicine at the Michigan State University in USA as well as the International Fellowship of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (IFEPAG) in 2008. She was a guest Researcher (2015) and Visiting Clinical Professor (2017) in Endocrinology and Genetics at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, USA and a Special Volunteer in the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Program at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC in USA in 2015 and 2017.

She is head of the multidisciplinary tertiary Center for Adolescent Medicine of the First Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, at the Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, that since 2010, hosts the UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care. She is the Academic Coordinator of the e-learning program on Adolescent Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Dr Bacopoulou has co-authored 31 original scientific papers, authored 4 book chapters, co-edited 3 books and has participated with oral/poster presentations and invited lectures in numerous conferences and meetings.