George P. Chrousos - Biography#
George P. Chrousos is Professor and Chairman of the First Department of Pediatrics at the University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, and former Chief of the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland. He holds the UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care at the University of Athens since 2010 and held the John Kluge Chair in Technology and Society, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, for 2011.
Prof. Chrousos is internationally recognized for his research on the glucocorticoid signaling system of the cell, on the diseases of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of stress. His contributions span a range of medical disciplines, including Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Psychiatry, Rheumatology, Allergy, Surgery, Oncology and Reproductive Medicine.
Dr. Chrousos has written over 800 original scientific papers and his work has been cited in more than 118,000 other scientific articles, an irrefutable testimony to the importance and influence of his research. He is one of the most cited scientists internationally (ISI highly cited) both in Clinical Medicine and in Biology and Biochemistry and the highest cited clinical endocrinologist and pediatrician in the world. His Hirsch Index is 170.
Dr. Chrousos has received numerous national and international awards and has given many lectures in the USA, Europe and Japan. He was inducted as a master of both the American College of Endocrinology and the American College of Physicians. He is former president of the European Society of Clinical Investigation. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine, The US National Academies, Washington DC, USA and the Academia Europaea, London, UK.
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