Background

She obtained her medical degree at the Aristotelion University Thessaloniki, Greece and trained in haematology at the transplant centre of The George Papanikolaou Hospital, gaining the title of Specialist in Haematology in 1996. She moved to London in 1997 with further Haematology specialist training at University College London Hospital. She did a clinical fellowship in haemopoietic stem cell transplant followed by a clinical and research fellowship in multiple myeloma in the department of Haematology of UCLH and at UCL. She obtained her PhD from University College London.

Her main clinical interests are lymphoma, plasma cell dyscrasias, multiple myeloma and transplantation, myeloma spinal and bone disease, myeloproliferative disorders (thrombocythaemia, polycythaemia), leukaemia and anaemias.

She works as Consultant Haematologist and is the lymphoma and multiple myeloma clinical lead.  She attends the Specialised Myeloma Spinal Unit MDT and is actively involved in national and international clinical trials in haematological diseases.

She is fluent in Greek.

Training

• 1983-1989 Medical School, Aristotelion University, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 1989-1995 Haematology Specialist Training: Haematology and Transplant Department, George Papanikolaou Hospital
• 1996-2000 Haematology Specialist Training : University College London Hospital, London, UK
• 2001-2004 PhD: University College London, London, UK

Clinical interests and areas of expertise

Subspecialist in haematological malignant disorders:

• Multiple myeloma
• Myeloma spinal and bone disease
• Waldentrom’s macroglobulinemia
• Hodkgin and Non Hodkgin lymphomas
• Haemopoietic stem cell transplantation
• Leukaemias
• Myeloproliferative disorders including thrombocytosis and polycythaemia

Research interests

Multiple myeloma, Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, lymphomas, stem cell transplantation, myeloma spinal disease and quality of life in patients with haematological malignancies