Evangelos I. Kritsotakis
Short Bio
I joined the Medical School of the University of Crete as an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in December 2018. Before this, I held a post as a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the University of Sheffield, UK (2014-2018), where I maintained an honorary position of Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Population Health until December 2024.
My first degree was in mathematics (University of Crete, Greece, 1998), followed by a Master's in statistics and operational research (University of Essex, UK, 2000). I underwent training in applied epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA, 2005). I was awarded a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Crete in 2007.
My academic teaching includes introductory and advanced modules in Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Research Methodology in undergraduate medicine, and postgraduate programmes in Public Health and the Surgical Sciences. I supervise master's and doctoral students doing applied and/or methodological research in these fields at the University of Crete. I also teach the core module Survival Data Analysis in the MSc in Biostatistics and Health Data Science at the University of Athens.
I have over 15 years of experience in the design, data analysis, and reporting of clinical and epidemiological research studies in acute care hospitals and other healthcare settings. My published research comprises mainly collaborative applied and translational studies, with long-term interdisciplinary work on the clinical epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, multi-drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria, and antimicrobial drugs. My experience includes conducting aetiological studies using survival analysis methods, prognostic studies to develop and validate clinical prediction models and algorithms, quasi-experimental and time-series studies to evaluate population-based interventions, epidemiological cohort studies, complex sample surveys, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. I have served as the lead biostatistician for more than 65 research studies, resulting in publications in international scientific journals that have garnered over 2600 citations and a Hirsch index of 28 (i10 index = 44) as of February 2025, according to Google Scholar.
Career landmarks:
Recognising my research contribution, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America awarded me the William Jarvis Award in 2009. During 2010–12 and 2015–17, I contributed actively to the ECDC European Network for Healthcare-associated Infection Surveillance (HAI-Net). I was a member of the National Coordination Team to design and implement the first two national prevalence studies of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute-care hospitals in Greece.
In 2017, I achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK, following an external evaluation of my experience, practice, and leadership of teaching and learning. In 2018, the Royal Statistical Society elected me a Chartered Statistician (CStat), the highest professional designation awarded by the Society.
In May 2022, I was elected as an Associate Editor for the Royal Society of Public Health's journal "Public Health", published by Elsevier, and I was promoted to Senior Associate Editor in February 2024. In May 2024, I became an Associate Editor for the journal "npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine" of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (published by Springer Nature).
A recent academic CV can be downloaded from the link below:
Professional Activities
- Fellow and Chartered Statistician (CStat) of the Royal Statistical Society.
- Member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, serving on the ISCB Student Conference Award Committee since 2023. Member of the ISCB 45th Conference Local Organising Committee (to be held in Thessaloniki, July 2024).
- Fellow (FHEA) of the Higher Education Academy/AdvanceHE.
- Member of the Royal Society for Public Health (MRSPH).
- Senior Associate Editor of the journal Public Health and Member of the Editorial Board of the sister journal Public Health in Practice (Royal Society for Public Health, published by Elsevier).
- Associate Editor of the journal "npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine" of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (published by Springer Nature).
- Guest editor of special issues in the journals Medicina and Antibiotics.
- Statistical reviewer for the Lancet Infectious Diseases, the Lancet Regional Health, the Lancet Microbe, and other Lancet group journals.
- Acknowledged as one of the top reviewers in 2020 for the journal Clinical Microbiology and Infection (recognition letter here).
- Expert reviewer for several high-impact medical journals: see my record in Web of Science.
- Mentor, The Tipping Point organisation, providing group mentoring sessions for secondary school students on academic, professional and career decisions (profile here).
Identifiers
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9526-3852
- WoS ResearcherID: R-2276-2016
- Scopus Author ID: 9242853500
- Dimensions record: ur.01242115032.99
- Google Scholar: bEsrTzwAAAAJ
- Semantic Scholar
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