PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
- Private practice, Pediatrician/Endocrinologist (since 2008)
- Scientific Advisor, Iaso Hospital (since 2008)
- Scientific Advisor, Metropolitan Hospital (since 2014)
EDUCATION
- Medical Degree, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 2001 - 2004: Intern Pediatrician, University Hospital of Patras
- 2004 - 2007: Specialty training in Pediatric Endocrinology (Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Endocrinology, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, FL, USA) and Pediatric Diabetes (Diabetes Research Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 2007 - 2008)
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
- 1996 - currently: Member, Athens Medical Association
- 2004 - currently: Member, Endocrine Society
- 2009: PhD, Medical School, University of Thessaly, grade summa cum laude
- 2013 - currently: Member, Hellenic Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology
- 2014 - currently: Pediatric Endocrinology Lecturer, Medical School, University of Thessaly
Publications in International Journals
- HLA-DR3/4 Heterozygosity is a Risk Factor for Autoantibody Conversion and Type 1 Diabetes Recurrence After Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation. S Diamantopoulos, G Allende, A Rosen, R Cirocco, G Ciancio, GW Burke, A Pugliese. Clinical Immunology 2007; 123: S22
- Gynecomastia and Premature Thelarche: A Guide for Practitioners. Diamantopoulos S, Bao Y. Pediatrics in Review 2007; 28:e57-68
- A Nine Year Old Girl with Thyrotoxicosis, Ataxia, and Chorea. Seeherunvong T, Diamantopoulos S, Berkovitz GB. Brain Dev 2007; 29:660-1
- Retrospective Assessment of Islet Cell Autoantibodies in Pancreas Organ Donors. Diamantopoulos S, Allende G, Ferreira JM, Ciancio G, Burke GW, Pugliese A. Diabetes Care. 2008 ;31:1741-2
- Metabolic Disease Risk in Children Born Small for Gestational Age: Catch-up Growth and Nutrition in Infancy. Myerly Kertis, Stavros Diamantopoulos. Support Line (American Dietetic Association). 2008; 30:9-13
- Insulin Mutation Screening of 1044 Patients with Diabetes: Mutations in the INS Gene are a Common Cause of Neonatal Diabetes but a Rarer Cause of Diabetes Diagnosed in Childhood or Adulthood. The Neonatal Diabetes International Collaboration Group. Diabetes 2008; 57:1034-42. (participated to Neonatal Diabetes International Collaboration Group).
- Recurrence of type 1 diabetes after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation, despite immunosuppression, is associated with autoantibodies and pathogenic autoreactive CD4 T-cells. Vendrame F, Pileggi A, Laughlin E, Allende G, Martin-Pagola A, Molano RD, Diamantopoulos S, Standifer N, Geubtner K, Falk BA, Ichii H, Takahashi H, Snowhite I, Chen Z, Mendez A, Chen L, Sageshima J, Ruiz P, Ciancio G, Ricordi C, Reijonen H, Nepom GT, Burke GW 3rd, Pugliese A. Diabetes. 2010 Apr;59(4):947-57
- Risk Factors for Type 1 Diabetes Recurrence in Immunosuppressed Recipients of Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplants. Vendrame F, Hopfner YY, Diamantopoulos S, Virdi SK, Allende G, Snowhite IV, Reijonen HK, Chen L, Ruiz P, Ciancio G, Hutton JC, Messinger S, Burke GW 3rd, Pugliese A. Am J Transplant. 2015 Aug 28. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13426.
