Melpomeni Peppa

Melpomeni Peppa

Professor of Endocrinology

Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Graduated from Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki (1988). She completed her residency in Endocrinology in Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece (1999). She has received a 3-year scholarship for her postdoctoral training, at the Division of Experimental Diabetes and Aging, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA (2000-2003). Dr. Melpomeni Peppa is a Professor of Endocrinology in Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Chief of the Endocrine and Bone Metabolic Disorders Unit, in the 2nd Propaedeutic Dept of Internal Medicine, and in the 3nd Dept of Internal Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital for Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece. She is the coordinator of the ERASMUS+/CIVIS Committee for Medicine, in Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and academic Coordinator for European Universities. Her research interests focus on the clinical, molecular, and environmental aspects of metabolic and hormonal abnormalities in diabetes, obesity, metabolism, psychiatric disease, cancer, and their complications. She has an active role (President, Vice President, Secretary, Member) in the Council of national and international scientific societies. She has written 30 chapters in books,105 publications in peer reviewed Journals,  with an H-index = 40, i10-Index 71, Citations = 9240, she is teaching in 13 postgraduate master programs, and she participates with lectures in many national and international conferences.