OUR Directors
Dr Nass Lamprakis, MD MBA PGDip PGCert
Nass holds a Doctor of Medicine (MD) alongside postgraduate qualifications in Psychiatry, Management and Business Administration, and Health Policy, from prestigious institutions.He believes that in the current environment of ever-increasing demand, there is a need for systems and organisations to be highly flexible and adaptable in order to provide high quality services sustainably and effectively.
He considers innovation and technology to be essential in this and his focus is on restructuring and reconfiguring organisations with the use of the latest advances in their area of involvement. He wants to be part of a process of leading service transformation that is based on an analytical, evidence based, systematic approach with focus on simplified and streamlined processes, innovation and sustainability.
Nass aspires to help so that the new models of operations are able to offer services that are friendly to the user and the environment, cost effective and equitably available at a wide scale. Overall, Nass considers that his greatest accomplishment is to be considered as an industry disruptor and an innovator that promotes cultural shifts and inspires new ways of working within organisations.
Dr Igho Onakpoya, MD MSc DPhil
Igho is a Physician and Senior Associate Tutor at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, UK. He is also a Senior Advisor with the World Health Organization. His research involves evaluating the benefits and harms of healthcare interventions, critically appraising the methodology of clinical trials, exploring the associations between exposure and outcome, and investigating the risks associated with the use of medicinal products.
He has extensive experience and expertise in the design and conduct of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, including complex reviews, and has co-authored over 70 systematic reviews. He supervises postgraduate students in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC). He was previously Research and then Deputy Editor, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, and academic Editor with Medicine®. On occasion, he works clinically.
OUR TEAM OF EXPERT ADVISORS
Professor Elias Mossialos
Professor Christos Lionis MD PhD FRCGP(Hon) FESC FWONCA
Professor Christos Lionis MD PhD FRCGP(Hon) FESC FWONCA
Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy and Director of LSE Health. He was the founding Head of the LSE Department of Health Policy (2017-2020). In 1998, Professor Mossialos co-founded the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a major health policy research and knowledge transfer programme.
His research focuses on transformation strategies for health organisations, healthcare regulation, access to healthcare, healthcare quality and patient outcomes, digital health, healthcare financing, pharmaceutical policies, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and cancer care and policy.
In 2010 he was awarded the Andrija Stampar medal by the Association of Schools of Public Health in Europe (ASPHER) for contributions to European public health. He received the 2021 Choice award by the Association of US College and Research Libraries for Outstanding Academic Title, the 2002 and 2007 Baxter Awards from the European Health Management Association for the best publication in health policy and management in Europe, the 2022 Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research. In 2009, under his directorship, LSE Health was honoured with the biennial Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in the UK.
Professor Christos Lionis MD PhD FRCGP(Hon) FESC FWONCA
Professor Christos Lionis MD PhD FRCGP(Hon) FESC FWONCA
Professor Christos Lionis MD PhD FRCGP(Hon) FESC FWONCA
Christos Lionis, a distinguished medical doctor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Crete, has made significant contributions to primary care and public health education, practice, and research. Since 1995, he served as a Professor and Director at the Clinic of Social and Family Medicine until August 2022, and has been actively involved in numerous European and international research projects. Christos holds a Guest Professorship at the University of Linkoping, Sweden since 2018.
Renowned for his efforts in medical training and quality standards in Greece and internationally, he has also been an editorial and advisory figure for several journals, and occupies leadership roles in professional organizations including chairing the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health.
His impressive academic output includes 444 papers with notable citations and indexes. Furthermore, he has been recognized with honorary fellowships from prestigious medical organizations and has contributed to the European Commission Expert Panel on Health and serves in advisory roles for the European Medicines Agency and national committees on mental health and bioethics.
Professor Dimitrios Georgopoulos MD PhD
Professor Christos Lionis MD PhD FRCGP(Hon) FESC FWONCA
Professor Dimitrios Georgopoulos MD PhD
Dimitris Georgopoulos is Professor Emeritus and was the Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of the University Hospital of Heraklion Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. Dr. Georgopoulos received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
After completion of his training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in General hospital “G. Papanikolaou”, Thessaloniki, Greece, Dr. Georgopoulos continued his postgraduate training in Respiratory System Physiology in the Section of Respiratory Diseases and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
He is author, co-author or editor of over 200 books, book chapters and articles. His research interests include control of breathing during mechanical ventilation, patient-ventilator interaction, lung mechanics, sleep in critically ill patients, and lung echography, among others. His work is cited more than 4000 times with an h-index of >30. Dr. Georgopoulos is a member of numerous scientific societies.
Dr Vasilleios Christopoulos PhD
Dr Vasilleios Christopoulos PhD
Professor Dimitrios Georgopoulos MD PhD
Dr. Christopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the University of California, Riverside Department of Bioengineering and Cooperating Faculty in the Graduate Neuroscience Program. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC).
Prior to joining UC Riverside, Dr. Christopoulos was a Research Faculty and Director of Neurotechnology at the T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center at Caltech. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, with minor in Cognitive Neuroscience, from the University of Minnesota.
Dr Leonidas Palaiodimos MD
Dr Vasilleios Christopoulos PhD
Dr Leonidas Palaiodimos MD
Leonidas Palaiodimos works as an academic hospitalist at NYC H+H / Jacobi and assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in the Bronx, New York. In addition, Leonidas serves as the director of clinical research for the division of hospital medicine at Jacobi.
Leonidas is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and board certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine.
Leonidas has co-authored more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles and has served as a reviewer and editor for prestigious journals.
Dr Antonios Kaniadakis PhD
Dr Vasilleios Christopoulos PhD
Dr Leonidas Palaiodimos MD
Dr Kaniadakis is a Reader in Digital Economy and Information Systems at the Computer Science Department, Brunel University London. He specialises in socio-economic analyses of digital technology innovation. He is an experienced ethnographer and expert in qualitative research methods.
He is widely published in information systems, management and social science journals and holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies from The University of Edinburgh. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Dimitri Varsamis PhD
Dimitri Varsamis PhD
Dimitri Varsamis PhD
Dimitri Varsamis PhD spent 13 years working at the national level of the English National Health Service and Ministry, and additionally 4 years on local service redesign.
More recently, he was NHS England’s Head of Digital Innovation Delivery. Previously, as National Senior Policy Lead for Digital Primary Care, he oversaw the national General Practice contract and financing in rolling out new digital services through all 6,500 GP practices.
He had previously worked on national clinical policy and at the governmental quality inspectorate.
Internationally, he represented the UK on the EU Joint Action on Chronic Diseases; as Churchill Fellow, he researched digital primary care in USA, Australia and New Zealand; he served at the Government Department for International Trade.
He has a medical engineering degree from the University of Kent, UK, an MSc in medical diagnostics and a PhD in biosensor development, both from Cranfield University, UK.
Dodd Glynn
Dimitri Varsamis PhD
Dimitri Varsamis PhD
Experienced and energetic health and care Director in integrated care, commissioning and provider organisations. The focus is always on the delivery of transformational change for the benefit of the population, in complex multi-agency environments.
Glynn works by synthesising complex issues to create the clarity to enable pragmatic solutions. Building collaboration to generate a positive approach to resolving challenges and by bringing people together to develop great delivery teams.