Professor Garyfallia Poulakou is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the third Department of Medicine of Athens National and Kapodistrian University, Medical School, at Sotiria General Hospital of Athens. She graduated from Athens National and Kapodistrian University, from which she also acquired her PhD (Medical Doctorate) by Thesis. She was trained in Internal Medicine (board-certified in 1998) and in Infectious Diseases (board-certified in 2009). She has accomplished a fellowship in infections in critically ill patients at Saint Joseph Hospital of Paris, France, and in Vall d’Hebron Hospital of Barcelona, Spain. Professor Poulakou is co-founder and served as Secretary and Vice-Chair in the International Study Group of the The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) International Study Group for Infections in Critically Ill Patients. She is member-elect of the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Society of Chemotherapy and member of several National and International Societies in the field of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care, and HIV Medicine. Dr Poulakou sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals Intensive Care Medicine (of which she is also Associate-Section Editor), DRUGS, and Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, and also serves as reviewer for more than 20 medical journals. Professor Poulakou has authored or co-authored more than 130 PubMed-Indexed publications in peer-reviewed journals, with more than 6,400 citations and a corresponding h-index of 41 by Google Scholar. Her scientific topics of interest are infections in critically ill patients, viral infections (influenza, COVID-19, and HIV), antimicrobial resistance, and new antibiotics.
