George Haritakis

He was born in Athens in 1953 and is a cardiologist. He received his medical degree from the University of Bologna in Italy in 1978. In 1986 he completed his Cardiology fellowship training. From 1986 to 1988, he served as a family doctor at IKA (Social Security System), and from 1989 to 2009, he was the Deputy Director of the Olympic Aviation Diagnostic Centre. He is a licensed aviation medical examiner (AME) (class 1 and 2). He has been a member of the environmental movement in Greece and abroad since 1987. He is a founding member of a number of environmental organisations and actively contributes as a public speaker and in other ways. He has appealed to UNESCO and the European Union about health issues and environmental disasters, and he writes articles about current health issues caused by environmental destruction, inadequate nutrition, and social circumstances. He served on the editorial board of «Nature and Ecology» for a number of years, and a number of his articles have appeared in medical and other journals, as well as the daily and weekly press. In 1992, his book «The silence of doctors» was published, in which he focuses on omissions in both the prevention and treatment fields. In 2004 his second book was published ‘Experiments on animals? No thanks!” which proposes alternatives to health care. In 1994 he received the European Award for the promotion of alternative methods of non-animal research from the International Association Against Animal Experiments (IAAPEA). From 2001 to 2012, he served as a researcher and the coordinator of a postgraduate study course for physicians at the University of the Aegean. Since 2017 he has been a coach of the Heartmath Institute and since 2020 a trainer of the Heartmath Institute.