Athanasios Diamandopoulos
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Prof. Diamandopoulos was born in the town of Arginio, Greece, in 1943 and spent his childhood in Patras and Ioannina. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1967 and in 1974 finished his specialization in Pathology at the Therapeutic Unit of the “Alexandra” Hospital in Athens. During the same year he left for Glasgow, having won a state scholarship. He returned to Greece in 1978 with the titles of PhD form the University of Athens, Philosophiae Doctorem from the University of Glasgow, a specialization in Nephrology and a Scottish wife.
Upon his return he was placed at the Renal Unit of the State Hospital “Agios Andreas” in Patras, where he still works as Head of the Department today. In 1986 he became an associate professor at the University of Athens and in 1996 he graduated in Archaeology from the University of Ionannina. During the same year he went to London where he conducted research on the History of Medicine at the Welcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He was the president of the Medical Society of Southern Greece for seven years. He is the president of the International Society for the History of Medicine and the Greek Society for the History and Archaeology of Medicine and a member of the administrative councils of the International Association of the History of Nephrology, the Commission for the History if Nephrology and the International Society for the History of Nephrology. He is the author of 16 books and 400 articles in Greek and international periodicals. He is interested mainly in bioethics, the history of water and Byzantine Medicine and is a reviewer for the London Times Literary Supplement and the medical periodical Kidney International.
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