Socrates E. Papapoulous MD

Socrates E Papapoulos is Professor of Medicine (Diseases of Calcium and Bone Metabolism) and Senior Medical Specialist/Adviser at the Leiden Center for Bone Quality, the Netherlands. He received his MD from the University of Athens, Greece and he was trained in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in Athens and at the Middlesex Hospital, London, UK. In 1984 he joined the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the Leiden University Medical Center where he was Director of Bone and Mineral Research between 1989 and 2012. Since 1974 he has been engaged in basic and clinical research, patient care, and teaching of disorders of bone and mineral metabolism.