Vascular Dementia

Biography

Panteleimon Giannakopoulos has completed his MD at age of 23 years from the University of Athens and is board certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist from 1999. He completed his postgraduate training in London and Paris before taking the chair of old age psychiatry in Geneva. He has also a full training in cognitive neurosciences focusing on dementing conditions. He was the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry in Geneva from 2005 to 2015 before being appointed as medical director of the Forensic Psychiatry for the Geneva county. He has published more than 220 peer-reviewed articles (h index: 42), and has been serving as an editorial board member and reviwer of repute.

Research Interest

Identification of markers of cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment, late-onset depression and bipolar disorders, Cognitive impact of vascular lesions in brain aging, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Use of recombinant clusterin to prevent ischemic damage in organotypic cultures and after middle cerebral artery occlusion