Basile Spyropoulos
Head of BME-Department
Health
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Greece
Biography
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece (1953), B.Sc.-Degree, Univ. Athens/Greece (1976) and Ph.D.-Degree in Physics (Dr.rer.nat.), Universities Heidelberg/Saarland, Germany (1982). He held positions in CERN, Geneva/Switzerland, Radiology and Clinical Chemistry Institutes, Univ. Heidelberg/Germany, Head of BME-Department, Public Hospital-Construction Authority, Athens/Greece, and Patent-Examiner, European Patent Office, Munich/Germany.
Research Interest
Better understanding of how individuals think about and make decisions about their health behaviors; developing more effective ways of encouraging behavior change; role of affective associations in health decision making; how attitudes about health behaviors influence processing of health information; social cognitive processes involved in considering changes in health behaviors; role of mood in responses to threatening health diagnoses
