Panagiotakos is currently v\Rector of Financial Affairs, Research & Development at Harokopio University in Athens and past-Dean of the School of Health Science & Education. He studied Mathematics at University of Patras, and performed his graduate studies in Statistics, Biostatistics at University of Athens. His PhD in Medicine (cardiovascular epidemiology) was performed at the School of Medicine, University of Athens. Dr Panagiotakos has a Cert in Environmental Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Univ of London, UK) and has developed post-doctorate research in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Since 2013 he is Professor in Biostatistics, Research Methods and Epidemiology of Nutrition, at the Department of Nutrition Science - Dietetics, Harokopio University in Athens. In the past, he has served as a Lecturer at University of Portsmouth (UK), a senior Research Scientist at the First Cardiology Department, School of Medicine, University of Athens (Greece), in which he was involved in several epidemiological studies. From 2003 until now, Dr Panagiotakos also act as a visiting Distinguished Professor at School of Science -Arts/ Dept of Kinesiology and Health, Rutgers University ( NJ USA), visiting Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Athens, as well as at the Agricultural University of Athens, in post and pre-graduate programmes. His research interests include Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Risk modelling - risk analysis, Nutritional Epidemiology and Multivariate analysis.

 Nutrition, Diet