Nikolaos Papanas

Biography

Dr. Nikolaos Papanas is Associate Professor in Internal Medicine at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has been specialized in diabetes and its complications in the Diabetes Center and the Diabetic Foot Clinic at King's College Hospital, London, UK, as well as in the German Diabetes Center at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. He has established an ongoing collaboration with the neuropathy study group of the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and serves in the editorial board of 20 international journals. He has also participated with numerous presentations in Greek and European medical congresses and repeatedly served as invited reviewer in medical journals. He has served in the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Society for Angiology. He is currently a member in the Executive Committees of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), and of the Study Group on Diabetes and Nervous System of the German Diabetes Association (DDG). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Greek Society for the Study of the Diabetic Foot, and the Secretary General of the Hellenic Diabetes Association.

Research Interest

Diabetic neuropathy