Professor in Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Contact details
Telephone: +30.2310.999.900
Email: garyalex(@)auth.gr
Concise curriculum vitae
Dr Alexandros Garyfallos is a Professor in Internal Medicine – Rheumatology and Chairman of the 4th Department of Internal Medicine of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) at Hippokration General Hospital. He graduated from the Medical School of AUTh in 1981 and he got his PhD in November 1985 from the same Medical School. In March 1990 he was elected as lecturer and in July 2008 as Professor in Internal Medicine – Clinical Immunology in AUTh. From January 1994 up to November 1994 he has worked as a Research Fellow at the Rheumatology Unit of Guy’s Hospital in London.
Dr Alexandros Garyfallos is a representative of the Medical Department at the Senate of AUTH and for the last 15 years he has been a member of the Special Training Committee, designing the future policy of the Medical School. From 2002 to 2004 he was elective member of the Disciplinary Board of the Medical Association of Thessaloniki. He has also been a member of the Postgraduate Committee teaching in the Postgraduate Programme, since it started in 2002, and a member of more than twelve special committees of the Medical Department. He is one of the coordinators of an Interdepartmental Training Programme in Rheumatology across Greece. He has also been a Member of the Central Board of Health (KESY) from 2015 since now and Coordinator of the specific Trans-ministry Committee of the Greek Ministry of Health and the Greek Ministry of Education, during the years 2018-2019.
He has supervised or acted as a member of the Examination Committees in more than 30 Doctoral Dissertations and in more than 25 Master Theses. In June of 2011 he was elected as Vice President and in July of 2013 as President of the Medical Department of AUTh.