Demosthenes Bouros
Professor
Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greece
Biography
Demosthenes Bouros is a graduate of the Medical School of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and a PhD of the University of Athens. He was a research fellow at the Harvard University in Boston, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Boston University, senior Research Associate at the Royal Brompton Hospital and ERS visiting professor of the Medical University of Vienna. He is currently Professor of Pneumonology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has published >400 articles in national and international peer-review journals, has >15.000 citations, H index 60 (Google Scholar), he wrote >40 chapters in books, is member of the Editorial Board of many medical journals. He was a member of the committee for the development guidelines for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and the new classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. He has been elected as foundation member of the Fellows of the European Respiratory Society (FERS).
Research Interest
His main research interests include the pathogenetic mechanisms and treatment of interstitial lung diseases and sarcoidosis and the role of stem cells in chronic lung diseases.