Georgios K. Tsivgoulis currently serves as professor of neurology (since 2018) and chairman (since 2020) in the Second Department of Neurology in the School of Medicine at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is also the director of the Neurosonology Laboratory, and director of Resident Training and the Cerebrovascular Fellowship Programme in his department. Dr Tsivgoulis is a visiting professor of neurology in the Department of Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, Memphis, TN (since 2015), and a Fellow of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO), the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).
Dr Tsivgoulis graduated with honours from the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He completed his residency in the First Department of Neurology of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his PhD with honours in the School of Medicine of National & Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2005, and subsequently completed a two-year Stroke/Neurosonology Fellowship in the Department of Neurology of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
His research interests focus on acute reperfusion therapies in acute ischaemic stroke, applications of neurosonology in cerebrovascular diseases, secondary stroke prevention, clinical trial methodology and application of meta-analyses on stroke therapeutics.
Dr Tsivgoulis currently serves as vice-president of the ESO. He is a member of the ESO Guideline Board and serves in the ESO Education Committee.
Dr Tsivgoulis has authored more than 680 papers and 16 book chapters. He has acted as reviewer in over 60 international medical journals and presented 182 invited lectures at international scientific conferences and institutions.
His research has received more than 24,000 citations (Google Scholar) and his H-index is 76 (Google Scholar).
Dr Tsivgoulis has been the recipient of international awards including the European Stroke Conference Young Investigator Award (2003), the American Society of Neuroimaging McKinney Research Award (2007) in Neurosonology, the European Stroke Organisation Scientific Excellence Award (2021), and competitive grants from both academic institutions and industry.
