Dimitris Dikeos MD

Dimitris Dikeos, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the 1st Department of Psychiatry of Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece and Director of the Sleep Research Unit of Athens University at Eginition Hospital. He is currently: President of the Hellenic Sleep Research Society (HSRS); Immediate Past President of the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA); Co-chair of the Task Force on Sleep Disorders of the World Federation of Societies for Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP); Secretary of the Planning Committee of the WFSBP; Deputy Chair of the International Scientific Programme Committee for the 13 th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry.

His research activities are focused on sleep medicine, psychiatric genetics, psychopathology and psychopharmacology. He has participated in various Multicentre Research Programmes in Europe and the U.S.A. such as: European Collaborative Studies of Affective Disorders, Johns Hopkins Genetic Epidemiology Schizophrenia Program, Meta-analysis of Sleep Laboratory Studies on Tolerance and Rebound Insomnia with Rapidly Eliminated Hypnotics, Maudsley Family Study, European Collaborative study by the Group for the Study of Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD), International Multicentre Study “FACTOR”, International Study on the Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa, The Psychiatric Genetics Consortium (PGC), Neurobiology and Treatment of Adolescent Female Conduct Disorder: the Central Role of Emotion Processing (FemNAT-CD), etc.