Athanassios Trikas

GENERAL SECRETARY

Senior Director of Cardiology Department, General Hospital “EVAGGELISMOS"                                                 General Secretary of HCS

Date of birth: November 10,1959 .

Place of birth: Piraeus, Greece.

Marital status: Married with two children.

Educational experience: 1) 1966-1972: Kosmopoulos Elementary School, Athens, Greece – 2) 1972-1978: Leontios High School, Athens, Greece – 3) 1978-1984: Medical School of the University of Athens – 4) July 1984: Graduation with honors from the Medical School of the University of Athens.

Military experience: 1985-1987: Medical officer in the General Naval Hospital of Athens.

Medical training: 1)15/5/1987-25/3/1988: House Officer, Division of Cardiolo-gy of the Trikala General Hospital, Trikala – Thessaly, Greece – 2) 21/5/1990-21-5-1993: Fellowship in Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, University of Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital- 3) 30 April 1991: PhD award with honors from the Medical School of the University of Athens- 5) 14 july 1993: Board certification in Cardiology.

Scholarship: July 1993: Hellenic Heart Foundation Annual Scholarship. Award fro research work in Heart Failure at the Division of Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, RPMS, London, U.K.

Career appointments: 1) 14-7-1993-14/1/1995: Attending physician, Cardio-pulmonary Exercise Testing Laboratory, Department of Cardiology, Medical School of the University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece – 2) 15/1/1994-15/1/1995: Research Fellow, Division of Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, RPMS, London, U.K. – 3) 16/1/1995-5/9/1995: Attending physician, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Laboratory and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Department of Cardiology, Medical School of the University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece – 4) 6/9/1995-28-12-2006: Senior Registrar in Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Medical School of the University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece – 5) 29-12-2006 – 04/02/2024: Senior Director of Cardiology Department, General Hospital “ELPIS”, Athens, Greece – 6) 5/11/2018 Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, 5) 05/02/2024 to date: Senior Director of Cardiology Department, General Hospital “EVAGGELISMOS”, Athens, Greece, 6) GCP 5/7/2024, 7) Medical License number YG199754.

Research work: a) Medical treatment of Heart Failure, b) Left atrial physiology, c) Elastic properties of the arteries, d)  Cardiomyopathies, e) Athletes, f) ThyRepair study (STEMI pts).

Cardiology Societies: a) Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, b) Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, c) Secretary of the Hellenic Cardiological Society.