Our People

According to the current organizational chart, the Chairwoman and founder of the Academy is Professor Christina Darviri .

Ms. Darviri is among the world's most distinguished scientists in the field of health promotion and stress science. Indicative of the global recognition she has received, Ms. Darviri is the only Greek woman,and 197th worldwide among 11,649 scientists  ranked in the top 2% of the world's top scientists for 2021-2022 in her field of knowledge /Health Science/Health Promotion /Stress Science, stress management. The selection was made from 9 million scientists worldwide evaluated in 22 fields and 176 subfields of all sciences based on a list published by the scientific publishing house Elsevier in collaboration with Stanford University, USA, which includes the top scientists for the year 2021. Her academic and research career includes long-term academic work and collaborations with universities in Greece and internationally. She has also trained at internationally renowned universities such as the Universities of Berkeley and San Francisco, and has been a Visiting Professor and Associate Researcher at the National Institutes of Health, USA in Washington, DC.In 2008, Professor Darviri founded in collaboration with Professor George Chrousos the Postgraduate Program in "Stress Science and Health Promotion" at the University of Athens School of Medicine, which has been operating uninterrupted since then, where she continues to be a professor, and has been scientific supervisor in numerous research projects. Professor Darviri has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, books and monographs, and she has supervised a large number of PhD theses and postgraduate dissertations, fervently supporting young scientists, physicians and health professionals. I in particular, she has conducted over 100 interventions using the Pythagorean self-awareness technique on different groups, having vast experience in interpreting the results of the method and its benefits to people, being very familiar with qualitative and quantitative research in stress and health promotion.

The position of Vice chairman is held by the internationally recognized Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Endocrinology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, George Chrousos George Chrousos

Since 2010 Mr. Chrousos has held the UNESCO Chair in Adolescent Health and Medicine and is also Director of the University Research Institute on Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has received worldwide recognition for being one of the most highly cited scientists in the world (ISI highly cited) and the only Greek medical scientist included in the ISI highly cited list in Clinical Medicine, which includes the 200 most cited medical scientists in the world.Mr. Chrousos is internationally recognized for his research into the molecular system of glucocorticoid signal transduction in the cell, adrenal axis diseases and the physiological and molecular mechanisms of stress. He has made significant contributions to the biomedical literature and authored over 1,100 scientific publications. According to the Google Scholar citation counter, he is the 37th most recognized scientist in the world, a compelling testimony to the importance and influence of his research. Over the years he has received countless awards and honors, most recentlythe Transatlantic Alliance Award for 2023 from the American Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE), an award given to international leaders in science who have made major contributions to endocrinology research on both sides of the Atlantic,i.e. in Europe and the USA.