Paraskevi Alexandrou

I was born on 25 November 1966 in Athens and I’m the mother of two children. In 1993 I graduated from the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I obtained my specialization in Pathological Anatomy in 2000, after training in four hospitals in Athens as well as at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. I completed master’s degree after attending during 2019-2021 the postgraduate program ‘GLOBAL HEALTH – HEALTH CRISIS MANAGEMENT’ and wrote my thesis titled ‘Western dietary model and environmental impacts’. My doctoral dissertation on ‘The clinical significance of HuR protein expression in non-small cell lung carcinoma’ was conducted at the A’ Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy at the Medical School of Athens. Since 2004, I have been working as a Pathological Anatomist at the Laiko General Hospital of Athens and I hold the position of director the NHS at the A’ Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy of EKPA, Medical School of Athens. I participate in the training of resident pathologists at the A’ Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy, while delivering lectures to undergraduate students in their 5^th semester, as well as to the postgraduate students of the Master’s program ‘Neoplastic Disease in Humans’ at EKPA. I have contributed to the writing of 52 foreign-language original publications in PubMed and have served as a supervisor for the completion of four master’s theses. Since 2019 I have been an administrator at the company ‘thevegantree’, which aims to raise awareness about animal abuse and envisions a sustainable planet.