Dimitra Ioanna Lampropoulou, is a Pharmacy School Graduate and MSc Diploma holder in Clinical Pharmacy. She earned her PhD in Cancer Pharmacogenomics (School of Medicine, NKUA). The past 4 years she is actively involved as a Scientific Collaborator/co-Investigator in several research projects, conducted under Professor Gazouli’s supervision - School of Medicine, NKUA.

Following her MSc Diploma, she was a community pharmacy owner for 3 years. In 2015, she worked as Research Collaborator in a research and education center (Hellenic Observatory of Corporate Governance-HOCG), participating in the development of syllabuses for Strategic Management and Leadership Modules and preparing both formative and summative feedback forms for each student (University of Roehampton & University of Liverpool). Since then, she worked as a Clinical Pharmacist and Leader of the Clinical Trials Unit at the 2 nd Dpt of Medical Oncology/GOHK “Agioi Anargiroi” for 7 years. She has participated in ~ 50 international phase II-IV clinical trials and gained extensive experience in clinical trials’ conduct. More specifically she provided overall management of all study-related aspects, she actively participated in patient identification/recruitment and education and she supervised the clinical trial staff as per GCP in order to maintain patient safety, confidentiality and the integrity of the clinical trial process. She also participated in Investigator Meetings and was responsible for budget negotiations.

She was also a designated member of the Committee for the Medical Information and Advertising Control at the Greek National Organization for Medicines (EOF) for almost 2 years. She has received 2 Scholarships from the Greek Society of Cancer Biomarkers and Targeted Therapy and the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology (HeSMO) for her Doctoral research and 1 scholarship for research at
Post-doctoral level. In the past, Dimitra has served as teaching assistant in the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics, School of Pharmacy, NKUA. She has authored and co-authored several articles in pubmed-indexed, peer-reviewed journals as well as conference abstracts and presentations at National and International Conferences. She has also participated as an invited
speaker and chairperson in several national oncology congresses and scientific meetings. Moreover, she has been a member of the scientific and organising Committee in 10 national Oncology Conferences. In 2022 she was elected Special Secretary of the BoD at the Panhellenic Association of Pharmacists. She is also a registered member of the GPhC and the RPS.
Her main experience and expertise include: Clinical Operations, Medical Writing, Regulatory and Medical Affairs.

Dr Gerasimos Aravantinos, Medical Oncologist, PhD, is currently the Director of the Oncology Department of the private hospital “Euroclinic Athens”. He previously served as the Scientific Director in the 2^nd Department of Medical Oncology, General Oncology Hospital of Kifissia (G.O.H.K) “Agioi Anargiroi”, Athens (2011-2022), and Deputy Director at the 3^rd Department of Medical Oncology, G.O.H.K “Agioi Anargiroi”, Athens (2006-2011). While serving at the G.O.H.K “Agioi Anargiroi”, he was repeatedly elected as a member of the Board of Directors representing physicians, for more than 20 years. Dr Aravantinos has been also the Vice President of the Greek Society of Cancer Biomarkers and Targeted Therapy since 2003 and a Member of the Medical Oncology Board Exam Committee (from 2019-2022). He has extensive experience in Clinical Research and has been the Principal Investigator in more than 90 interventional and non-interventional international oncology clinical trials. He also has been a member of the Board of Directors (1999-2017). Over the years he was elected as the General Secretary (1999-2005) and Vice President (2005-2009) of the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology (HESMO). He has also served as a designated member of the National Ethics committee of National Organization for Medicines (EED) from 2001 to 2009. He has been an Adjunct Professor in Clinical Oncology at the Clinical Pharmacy Masters Diploma (NKUA) (2005-2017). Dr Aravantinos has been a member (since 1999) and Scientific Responsible (1999-2007) in the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HECOG). He has authored and co-authored more than 220 articles in peer-reviewed journals (Scopus H-Index=42). Board Certified Member of ESMO since 1993 and full member of ASCO since 1999. He is also currently a member/founding member of more than 10 National Medical Professional bodies.

He currently collaborates with ECONCARE as Medical Consultant in the Clinical Research Department.

Garyfallia Stefanou studied Applied Mathematics at National Kapodistrian University of Athens and earned her MSc in Biostatistics with honors from the same university. She had worked as statistician consultant in the research team of the National School of Public Health and of the Department of Special Education, University of Thessaly. During her dissertation she volunteered as a research fellow at the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics of Medical School of Athens. Earlier in her career was an assistant in data management and analysis at the Hellenic Institution of Osteoporosis and an experienced tutor of Mathematics. She has published scientific work in reputable scientific journals and has participated in many international and Greek conferences.

Currently, she is equipped in the position of Head of Biostatistics and Programming at ECONCARE, a research and consulting firm. Her expertise includes statistical analysis of health care data, valuation of medical care costs (cost-of-illness studies), observational studies, surveys, registries, systematic literature reviews, pairwise and network meta-analyses, sample sizes estimations, quality appraisal of clinical evidence, and development of clinical studies and statistical analysis reports. Her interests include techniques of analysis of medical cost data, Bayesian analysis approach, as well as decision analysis models. She is also an experienced user of R, STATA and SPSS.

Katerina holds the position of Senior Health Economist, Consultant at ECONCARE. Following her studies in ‘Health Economics, Policy and Law’ in Erasmus University Rotterdam, she started her career as a Data Analyst in Health Economics and Outcomes Research in IMS Health in Belgium. Since then, she has extensively worked in Economic Evaluations of healthcare interventions in a broad spectrum of diseases. Her areas of expertise include Health Economic Modelling, Cost-Effectiveness Analyses, Budget Impact Analyses, Cost of illness Studies, Systematic Literature Reviews and the organization of Advisory Boards as well. She has gained experience on HTA submissions in various countries whereas she had also conducted presentations of Health Economic dossiers to the HTA organizations. Katerina has a proficient level of English and French.

Maria Koulentaki is a consultant at ECONCARE. Maria excels at managing projects across Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) and Market Access business areas, including HTA submissions and Pricing.

She has experience in the development of decision-analytic models (cost-effectiveness, cost-comparison, budget impact models etc.), using specialized techniques, according to the type of disease. She is collaborating with medical, market access and commercial teams of pharmaceutical companies to design and execute HEOR strategies and studies that investigate patient burden, economic impact, unmet needs and outcomes within a therapeutic area, supporting them up to HTA submission. Other Maria's expertise include the organization of Advisory Boards, Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR), evidence synthesis and documentation of full economic evaluation report, as well as pricing and reimbursement regulations and procedures within Greece and Cyprus.

She has a broad experience of different therapeutic areas, including cardiology, oncology, rheumatology, among others, and different therapeutic categories, such as generics, biologics and biosimilars.

Maria holds a BSc in Management and Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a MSc in Health Services Administration, from University of West Attica (ex. National School of Public Health).

Foteini Gialama is a medical writer at ECONCARE. She has extensive experience in synthesizing biomedical data, in conducting systematic literature reviews and literature-based regulatory submission documents and in scientific writing having published her work in several international peer-reviewed journals. As a medical writer in ECONCARE her main experience and expertise include the development of reimbursement/health technology assessment (HTA) dossiers for several medical technologies in a wide range of therapeutic areas.

In the past, Foteini has worked as a Human Resources Management Executive in IASO private clinic in Athens, Greece and as a Member of the Scientific Technical Secretariat of the Task Force for Greece (TFGR) providing technical assistance for the country’s reform process in the health sector. Furthermore, she has worked as an external research fellow at National School of Public Health (now University of West Attica). For the past 4 years she is also an administrative staff at Local Health Units (TOMY) at Ministry of Health.   

Foteini has gained extensive teaching experience in Health Management, Strategic Management and Health Workforce Policy & Planning at the National School of Public Health and the Medical School of University of Athens. She has also served for three years as an Academic Assistant and course developer in the distance Education Programme (E-learning) “Management and Organization of Health Services” of University of Piraeus in Greece. 

Foteini holds a B.Sc. in Human Resources Management from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in Greece and two MSc degrees, one in Health Information Systems from the University of Brunel in London and the other in Health Management from the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece. She earned her PhD in Health Workforce Policy & Planning from the University of Peloponnese, in Korinthos, Greece.

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Katerina Lioliou, MPharm, MSc, is a graduate of the School of Pharmacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and holds a master's degree from the School of Medicine's postgraduate program titled “Development of New Drugs: Research, Circulation, and Access”, (Grade: “Excellent”). Her thesis titled “Do neurosteroids have a neuroprotective role in an in vitro model of Parkinson's disease?” was conducted at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) (Grade: Excellent”).

Katerina currently works as a Medical Writer at ECONCARE, Health Research & Consulting. She has extensive experience in the development of clinical dossiers for submission to the Health Technology Assessment Committee (HTA) in Greece and Cyprus. Additionally, she offers consulting services to the pharmaceutical industry. Her responsibilities include designing and developing study protocols for observational studies, Delphi panels, and Advisory Boards, as well as writing scientific articles.

She has also contributed as an educator in the program titled “Drug Development and Principles of Pharmaceutical Policy” (Centre for Training and Lifelong Learning at NKUA) and has also served as an invited lecturer in the postgraduate program of the School of Medicine at NKUA titled “Development of New Drugs: Research, Circulation, and Access”. She has also participated as an invited speaker in a seminar on Clinical Research organized by the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association.

Katerina also holds a Certificate from the program 'Medical Devices: Regulatory Requirements, Evaluation, Certification, CE Marking (903).' She has also worked as a community Pharmacist for 4 years.

George Gounelas studied Mathematics at University of Patras and continued his studies in MSc Biostatistics at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He volunteered in data collection for use in epidemic analysis of SARS-COV2 during the pandemic. Earlier in his career, he was a Mathematics and Statistics tutor. His area of expertise includes statistical analysis of data from observational studies, monitoring and analysis of clinical trials and evidence synthesis. Currently, he is appointed as a Biostatistician at ECONCARE, a research and consulting firm. His interests include machine learning techniques, such as decision trees and neural networks, for statistical predictions and forecasting, database management and epidemic models. He also has experience working with R, STATA, Python, SPSS and SQL.

Angelos Nikolopoulos has studied Law at the University of Athens (UoA), holds an LL.M in Law, Technology and Economy, a master's degree in Political Science and Sociology and a bachelor's degree in Pedagogical Science, both from the UoA. He is a certified lawyer and member of the Athens Bar Association. He has significant experience in GDPR compliance projects and works as Data Protection Officer in both public and private sectors. He speaks English, Italian and Spanish fluently.

Myriam is a Pharmacist graduated from School of Pharmacy, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The completion of her MSc studies in “Clinical Trials: Design & Conduct” (Medical School, NKUA) has offered her thorough training in both the theoretical and practical aspects of clinical trials. More specifically, she has gained a deeper insight in clinical trial design, data management and analysis, the current regulatory and ethical framework and different types of trials and study populations. Her thesis focused on the comparison of GLP-1 analogues in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus. She has worked as a Responsible Pharmacist in a large Community Pharmacy for several years acquiring extensive knowledge in Primary Healthcare, in the context of Pharmaceutical Care. Myriam has also worked as a Hospital Pharmacist Intern at Andreas Syngros Hospital of Venereal & Dermatological Diseases and University Hospital of Heraklion. She currently works as a Clinical Trials Associate (CRA) in Econcare.