Meletios Athanasios Dimopoulos#
| Membership Number: | 7300 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | http://mdimop.gr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8990-3254 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - today Professor and Chairman of the Department of Clinical Therapeutics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
- 2015 - 2023 Rector of the University
- 2011 - 2013 Dean of the School of Medicine
- 2007 - 2011 President of the University Hospitals “Aretaieio” and “Aiginiteio”
- 2007 - 2011 Vice-Dean of the School of Medicine
- 2005 to-date Chair of the Department of Clinical Therapeutics
- 2004 - 2007 Director of the Academic Department of Medicine
- 1994 to-date In charge of the Hematology/Oncology Unit of the Department of Clinical Therapeutics
Fields of Scholarship
- Hematologic malignancies
- MAMultiple myeloma
- Carcinomas
- Plasma cell dyskrasias
- Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM)
Honours and Awards
- October 2022 Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Belgrade
- May 2021 Greek Oncology Award «George Stathopoulos” from the Society of Oncological Pathologists of Greece
- February 2020 Medal of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix awarded by the President of the Hellenic Republic
- January 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, TX, USA
- October 2019 Hippocratic Orator Award from The Hellenic Medical Society of United Kingdom
- September 2019 Visiting Professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
- June 2019 Robert Kyle Life Achievement Award
- May 2018 Membre associe etranger of the National Academy of Medicine of France
- August 2017 Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes academiques
- 2017 Recipient of the CoMy Excellence Award (International Myeloma Award-May)
- March 2017 Recipient of Waldenstrom's Award for Myeloma Research of the International Myeloma Society
- Twelve National Awards for the best oral or poster presentations in Hematology and Oncology Meetings
- September 2009 Silver Award of the Mediterranean Multidisciplinary Oncology Forum
- October 2008 “Lifetime Achievement Award” for contributions in Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia
- May 2003 Recipient of the “Robert A. Kyle Award for outstanding contributions in Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia”
