CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael Rentzos
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth:
12/02/1959
Nationality:
Greek
Place of Birth:
Athens
Address:
N. Politi 13
Ilioupoli, 100 00 Athens
Work Address:
Department of Neurology
X Hospital
Vas. Sofias 72-75
100 00 Athens
Tel:
210 99 65 166
Work Tel:
210 72 89 200
210 72 89 305
E-mail: mrentzos@med.uoa.gr
CURRENT POSITION
June 2012 to date
Permanent Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Athens
MILITARY SERVICE
December 1983 – April 1986
Infantry
June 1984
Sanitary Junior officer, Trained at the Supreme Joint War College
ADISPO in Psychological Warfare
Now is Sanitary Reservist Captain
RURAL GENERAL PRACTIONER
August 1986 – December 1987, Pelasgia, Central Greece
EDUCATION
1971 – 1976
1978 – 1983
1984
Junior High School – Senior High School (Secondary School)
Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, degree: very good
Licence to practice
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
1985
six-month residency in psychiatry, 401 General Hospital of Army, Athens
1985 – 1986 five-month residency in internal medicine, 401 General Hospital of Army, Athens
June 1985
one-month residency in internal medicine, Preveza Prefecture Hospital
Dec 1987 – Jun 1987
start of residency in speciality in Neurology at Pammakaristos Hospital
Oct 1988 – Mar 1991
final residency in speciality in Neurology at the University Neurological
Clinic, Eginition Hospital
1991
Speciality: Neurologist
1995 Doctorate: tumor necrosis factor (TNF – a), interleukin 1 – b (IL – 1b),
interleukin – 6 (IL – 6) in the serum and the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with MS
Degree: excellent
CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael Rentzos
Wk Tel: +30 210 72 89 200 & +30 210 72 89 305
e-mail: mrentzos@med.uoa.gr
TEACHING
Undergraduate education:
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Wrote Metabolic Diseases of the Nervous System (Chapter) in the textbook
NEUROLOGY, Epitome Theory and Action, Professor D. Vasilopoulos, used in the
teaching of fifth year students in Medical School

1992
ward rounds, teaching students in the hospital

2002
teaching students in the amphitheatre
Postgraduate education:
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Teaching postgraduate students for research programmes of the Neurobiology –
Neuroimmunology laboratory of the Neurological Clinic of Eginition Hospital

Training speciality students of neurology (ward rounds in the hospital, seminars,
teaching in the amphitheatre)
CLINICAL
1992 – 2002
research collaborator for the University Neurological Clinic A of Eginition
Hospital
2003 – 2008 Lecturer University Neurological Clinic A of Eginition Hospital
2008 – to date Assistant professor, University Neurological Clinic A of Eginition Hospital
2003 – 2007 Attended patients in the Outpatient Department of the Neurological Clinic of
Eginition Hospital
2007 to date Head of Clinical Department for Disorders of the Peripheral Nervous
System of the Neurological Clinic of Eginition Hospital
2007 to date Head of the Special Clinics for Diseases of Motor Neurons, Polyneuropathy
and Disorders of the Neuromuscular Synapses
1992 – 2002 Consultant Neurologist for the Dermatology Clinic of Syggros Hospital
RESEARCH
1991 – to date
 Coordinator of the Neuroimmunology – Neurobiology Laboratory of the Neurological
Clinic of Eginition Hospital
 Active member and constant participant in funded research programmes and clinical
protocols of the Neuroimmunology – Neurobiology Laboratory of the Neurological
Clinic of Eginition Hospital
AWARDS
Candidate for the prize Μοίρα (Fate) of the Athens Academy in 1996 with the paper:
Tumor necrosis factor, interleukin 1b, interleukin 6 and soluble adhesion molecules
intercellular in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with MS and other neurological
diseases
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael Rentzos
Wk Tel: +30 210 72 89 200 & +30 210 72 89 305
e-mail: mrentzos@med.uoa.gr
MEMBER OF SCENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Hellenic Neurological Society
Hellenic Society of Immunology
Representative of the Myasthenia branch of the Hellenic Neurological Society
MEMBER OF ELECTORAL BODIES
Member of electoral bodies in choice of three Lecturers and one Assistant Professor
MEMBER OF THREE DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Supervising member on one committee
Member on one three-member committees
Member on two seven-member committee
BOOKS


Principles of Neurology, 1997, Adams and Victor et al.
Wrote three chapters in the Greek edition of the book
HIV / AIDS – Basics, 2001,
Wrote one chapter in the monograph
PARTICIPATION AS A CHAIRMAN, SPEAKER OR ORGANIZER AT 23
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
REVIEWER IN 7 JOURNALS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
RESEARCH – WRITING
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE
Total: 49
Thematic Distribution
Neurology: 19
Neuroimmunology: 26
Neurogenetics: 3
Neuroradiology: 1
Type of publication
Clinical – trials: 35
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael Rentzos
Wk Tel: +30 210 72 89 200 & +30 210 72 89 305
e-mail: mrentzos@med.uoa.gr
Case-reports: 14
Candidate series between authors
1 First in: 23 (47%)
2 Second in: 8 (16%)
Another position: 19 (37%)
Impact factor (2012)
Total: 108.301
Average: 2.30
Citations from scholar google: 499
from Scopus
: 361
h – index: 14 in Scholar Google
h – index: 11 in Scopus
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Total: 25

GREEK LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE
Total: 22

GREEK LANGUAGE ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Total: 32
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