Stefanos Dimitrakopoulos is a psychiatrist - psychotherapist and military doctor. He graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2004. In 2013 he completed his specialization in Psychiatry at the 1st University Clinic of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, at Aiginition Hospital.
He is a consultant psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Clinic of 414 Military Hospital of Athens and works in private psychiatry since 2013. He is a scientific associate of the 1st University Clinic of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, at Aiginition Hospital, participating in research protocols such as "Detecting Gene-Environment Interaction in Patients with a First Episode Psychosis" and "European Long-acting Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia Trial". He is also a member of MGene Lab at Aiginition Hospital, participating in similar research studies. His ongoing doctoral thesis at the Medical School of the University of Athens is about cognitive deficits in patients with First Episode Psychosis.
He has received postgraduate training in neuroimaging of schizophrenia at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Center of the Melbourne University in 2016-2017. He has been the inaugural recipient of "Greek-Australian Fellowship in Neuropsychiatry" (University of Melbourne - Melbourne Health). He has completed his masters in "Human Genetics" at the University of Thessaly.
Since 2011, he has been a member of the teaching team in the Training Course in Clinical Psychopathology “PANAGIOTIS OULIS”. Since 2017, he has been a coordinator and trainer for the training program in the psychiatric clinic of 414 Military Hospital. From 2018 he participates as a trainer at the EPIPSY annual Seminar on Early Intervention in Psychosis.
His areas of scientific interest are preventive psychiatry, psychiatric genetics and epidemiology, mainly in the domain of Psychotic Disorders with emphasis on the 1st Episode Psychosis, early recognition, intervention and treatment. His work has been awarded at the 26th Greek Psychiatric Congress in 2018. He participates in the publication of international and greek peer-reviewed articles and books and is a speaker in Greek and international conferences.
George Konstantakopoulos studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Athens and specialized in psychiatry at the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital. He has also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and specializes in the Psychotherapy of Eating Disorders. He is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Athens Medical School.
Ηe has worked as a scientific supervisor of psychosocial programs and as a trainer in training courses for mental health professionals that have been implemented in Greece, Denmark, and Finland as part of the psychiatric reform program "Psychargos". Since 2008, he has been working as a scientific associate of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens at the Byron-Kessariani Community Mental Health Center and the Eating Disorders Unit. At the same time, he has been a research associate of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College London, and of University College
London. His main research interests are: insight (awareness of illness), cognitive functioning, and, in particular, social cognition in mental disorders, meta-cognition, and its relationship to psychopathology.
To date, he has published 95 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in 6 scientific books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatriki, the scientific journal of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, member of the editorial board of Social Neuroscience and Brain Sciences, Review Editor of the Frontiers in Psychiatry, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, member of the editorial board of the Greek journal Synapsis, and reviewer in many international scientific journals. Since 2014, he has been the scientific supervisor of the annual post-graduate Course in Clinical Psychopathology of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and the University Research Institute for Mental Health (EPIPSY). Since 2016, he has also been the supervisor of another annual postgraduate Course in Clinical Skills in Psychopathology organized by the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and the Hellenic Psychiatric Association. Moreover, he has been teaching in post-graduate training programs for intern psychiatrists and other mental health professionals and in MSc programs in Greece and in UK.