CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr Efthymia Vargiami
Assistant Professor of Child Neurology
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stPediatric Clinic, Aristotle University of Theaasloniki
I. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full name Efthymia Vargiami Date of birth 26 March 1968 Place of birth Kozani, Greece Mailing address keva@med.auth.gr Contact telephone +00302310892470
II. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
High School 1st Lyceum of Trikala, Greece
Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1986-92) Graduation date: 15/7/1992
Medical License issued 29/7/1992, Directorate of Public Health, Prefecture of Trikala, Greece (License No 7362)
Specialist Examination in Paediatrics taken and passed 20/12/2000, Thessaloniki, Greece
Certificate of Specialist Training in Paediatrics issued 6/2/2001, Directorate of Public Health, Prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece (Serial No Γ2/47.688)
University of Cambridge Certificate in English Certificat de langue française (1995)
ΙΙΙ. SPECIALIST TRAINING
5/10/94 – 7/10/96 Senior House Officer in Paediatrics, Hospital for
Infectious Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece (four months:
March-June 1995 were spent in the Neonatal
Department, Hippocration Gen. Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece).
7/10/98 – 7/10/00 Senior House Officer in Paediatrics, G. Gennimatas General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece (two months:
October-December 1999 were spent in the Neonatal Department, Hippocration Gen. Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece).
IV. POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
1/5/97 – 31/6/98 Honorary Assistant, 1st Paediatric Department and Endocrine Outpatient Clinic, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
6/9/00 – 16/7/02 Honorary Assistant, 1st Paediatric Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in
Developmental Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology, working on my Doctoral Thesis (“The use of visual evoked potentials in the diagnosis of cerebral palsy”) 17/7/02 – current Specialist Registrar, Apostolos Focas Center for
Developmental Paediatrics, 1st Paediatric Department of Aristotle University, Hippocration Gen. Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
V. RURAL SEVICE
28/9/92 – 27/9/94 Sofades Health Center, seconded for one year to the Paediatric Department of Karditsa General Hospital, Karditsa, Greece
VI. SCIENTIFIC WORK
1. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 1. Hellenic Paediatric Society
2. Paediatric Society of Northern Greece 3. Thessaloniki Medical Association 4. Hellenic Paediatric Neurology Society 5. European Paediatric Neurology Society 6. Hellenic Metabolic Society
2. DISTINCTIONS
Awarded the Prize for best paper presented at the 6th Scientific Meeting of Paediatricians of East Macedonia & Thrace, Komotini, Greece, 23-24/3/2002 [Economou M, Zafiriou D, Vargiami E, Kousi A, Tsatra I, Perifanis V, Athanassiou-Metaxa M. Neurophysiological study of patients with homozygous β-thalassaemia]
3. SCHOLARSHIPS
A one year scholarship provided by the Hellenic Paediatric Society (16/2/2001- 16/2/2002) for specialization in Neurodevelopment at the Apostolos Focas Center for Developmental Paediatrics, Hippocration General Hospital of Thessaloniki
4. PhD (2006): Flash VEP findings in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy:
Correlation with clinico-radiological parameters
5. ORIGINAL PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS (PUM MED): 40
6. ABSTRACTS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: 34
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES: 38
8. REVIEWER OF JOURNALS: JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY, JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
9. CITATIONS: 183 (2002-2012)
10. PERSONAL INFORMATION: I am working as Consultant Child Neurologist from 17.7.02 –11.1.2012 in 1st Pediatric Clinic of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from 11.1.2012 –7.3.2014 as a Lecturer in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Child Neurologist in 1st Pediatric Clinic of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and from 7.3.2014-today as an Assistant Proffesor in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Child Neurologist in 1st Pediatric Clinic of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and especially in the Neurodevelopmental and Neurophysiological Departemnents.
11. Impact factor for the original papers: 85.520
12. H-index ή H-factor: 7
Thessaloniki 9.4.2014
E. Vargiami
