Matthew Falagas MD, MSc, DSc

09/2000                       Management of patients with septic shock. General Hospital of Limassol, Cyprus

10/1999                       Increasing antimicrobial resistance: a major threat to humanity. Harvard Medical International-Partners-“Hygeia” Hospital Conference, Athens, Greece

01/1999                       Antimicrobial agents in the elderly: theoretical issues and clinical problems. 4^th Panhellenic conference of the Hellenic Society for Infectious Diseases, Athens, Greece

12/1998                       Modern management of neutropenic patients with fever.  Panhellenic Combined Conference of Greek Pain Society and Greek Society of Palliative Care, Athens, Greece

11/1998                       Viral hepatitis.  7^th Scientific Conference of Hygeia Hospital, Karpenisi, Greece   

05/1998                       The continuing medical education (CME) credit hour system in the USA: How does it work? 24^th Annual Panhellenic Medical Conference, Athens, Greece

04/1998                       Fever of unknown origin: Clinicopathologic Conference, Depatrment of Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital, Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

03/1997                       Metronidazole and cancer. Progress in research conference. New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

02/1997                       Controversial issue:  Are immunoglobulins useful for prevention and treatment of viral and bacterial infections in transplantation? Conference on Pulmonary Infections in Organ Transplant Recipients, Milan, Italy

02/1997                       Is cytomegalovirus an immunopathological condition? Conference on Pulmonary Infections in Organ Transplant Recipients, Milan, Italy

10/1996                       Infections in transplant recipients.  4th world biomedical conference of the Hellenic diaspora, Nicosia, Cyprus     

05/1996                       The impact of cytomegalovirus on short and long term survival of liver transplant recipients. Progress in research conference. New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts  

02/1995                       Recurrent cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant recipients. Symposium on Controversies in Transplant Infection, Tucson, Arizona 

05/1994                       Differential diagnosis of common symptoms in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  Department of Medicine Conference, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital of Boston, Tufts University School of Medicine                         

06/1993                       HIV and AIDS.  Medical Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Tufts Univ. School of Medicine, Boston

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONFERENCES

09/2005                       4^th conference of the International Society for the Prevention of  Tobacco Induced Diseaes (ISPTID), Athens, Greece (co-chair of the Scientific Committee)

06/2004                       3^rd Summer School of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Athens, Greece (local organizer and course director)

10/2003                       Obesity and complications: a 3-day seminar. Inter-University European seminar, Athens, Greece (local organizer and course director)

ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL MEDICAL CONFERENCES

12/2013                       “9^th Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

12/2012                       “8th Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

04/2012                        “Current treatment of common diseases in women”, seminar, Nafplio, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

11/2011                        “7^th Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

04/2011                       “Prulifloxacin:recent developments”, seminar, Nafplio, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

11/2010                       “6^th Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

03/2010                       “Antibiotics in clinical practice”, seminar, Loutraki, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

11/2009                       “Epidemic and endemic influenza”, seminar, Athens, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

03/2009                       “5^th Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar co-organizer and director)

10/2008                       “Prulifloxacin for respiratory tract infections”, seminar, Athens, Greece (seminar organizer and director)

03/2008                       “4^th Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar co-organizer and director)

10/2007                       “Respiratory infections”, seminar, Athens, Greece (seminar co-organizer and director)

03/2007                       “3^rd Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar co-organizer and director)

02/2006                       “2^nd Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar co-organizer and director)

02/2005                       “1^st Top-10 on infections”, inter-disciplinary seminar with interactive sessions, Athens, Greece (seminar co-organizer and director)

ORGANIZING/SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

(selection from international biomedical conferences)

11/2006                       1^st International meeting on the treatment of human brucellosis, International Society of Chemotherapy, Ioannina, Greece

05/2006                       19^th  European Congress on Surgical Infections, Surgical Infection Society - Europe, Athens, Greece

REVIEWER IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

1. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
2. Acta Tropica
3. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
4. American Journal of Critical Care
5. American Journal of Infection Control
6. American Journal of Managed Care
7. American Journal of Medicine
8. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
9. American Journal of Transplantation
10. Annals of Internal Medicine
11. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
12. Archives of Dermatology
13. Archives of Internal Medicine
14. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapia Experimentalis
15. Atherosclerosis
16. BMC Developmental Biology
17. BMC Infectious Diseases
18. BMC Public Health
19. British Journal of Cancer
20. British Journal of Dermatology
21. British Journal of General Practice
22. British Medical Journal (BMJ)
23. Canadian Family Physician
24. Canadian Journal of Microbiology
25. Canadian Medical Association Journal
26. Chest
27. Clinical Infectious Diseases
28. Clinical Microbiology and Infection
29. Clinical Microbiology Reviews
30. Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research
31. Clinical Theraputics
32. Critical Care
33. Critical Care Medicine
34. Current HIV Research
35. Current Medicinal Chemistry
36. Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs
37. Diabetes Care
38. Diabetic Medicine
39. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
40. Emerging Infectious Diseases
41. Epidemiology and Infection
42. European Journal of Dermatology
43. European Journal of Public Health
44. European Respiratory Journal
45. Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy
46. Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
47. Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs
48. Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology
49. Infection
50. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
51. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice
52. Intensive Care Medicine
53. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
54. International Journal of Clinical Practice
55. International Journal of Infectious Diseases
56. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
57. International Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
58. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases
59. JAMA
60. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
61. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
62. Journal of Chemotherapy
63. Journal of Clinical Microbiology
64. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
65. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
66. Journal of Infection
67. Journal of Endovascular Therapy
68. Journal of Endourology
69. Journal of Medical Case Reports
70. Journal of Medical Microbiology
71. Lancet
72. Lancet Infectious Diseases
73. Laryngoscope
74. Mayo Clinic Proceedings
75. Medical Decision Making
76. Medical Science Monitor
77. Medical Education
78. Mycoses
79. Mycopathologia
80. Nature
81. Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology
82. Nature Clinical Practice Urology
83. Nature Reviews Microbiology
84. Occupational and Environmental Medicine
85. Obesity Reviews
86. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal
87. Pediatrics International
88. Pediatric Nephrology
89. PharmacoEconomics
90. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
91. PLoS Medicine
92. PLoS ONE
93. Respiration
94. Respiratory Medicine
95. Rheumatology
96. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
97. Southern Medical Journal
98. Surgical Infections
99. Swiss Medical Weekly
100. Trials
101. Yonsei Medical Journal
102. World Journal of Surgery