Evangelos I. Kritsotakis
Short Bio
I was appointed Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Medical School of the University of Crete in December 2018, following a post as tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the University of Sheffield, UK (2014-2018), where I maintain an honorary position of Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Population Health.
My first degree was in Mathematics (University of Crete, Greece, 1998) followed by a Master's degree 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 earned my PhD degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Crete in 2007.
I teach introductory and advanced topics in Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Research Methodology in undergraduate programs in Medicine and postgraduate programs in Public Health and Surgical Sciences, and 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 in Survival Data Analysis on the MSc in Biostatistics and Health Data Science, at the University of Athens.
My research interests lie in statistical and epidemiological principles and methods for the design, analysis and reporting of clinical and epidemiological studies in acute care hospitals and other healthcare settings. My record of research publications comprises mainly collaborative applied and translational research, including prognostic factor studies, clinical prediction models, quasi-experimental and time series studies for public health intervention evaluations, population-based cohort studies, complex sample surveys, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, with long-term research focus on healthcare-associated infections, multi-drug resistant pathogens and antimicrobial drugs.
In acknowledgement of research contribution, I was awarded with the William Jarvis Award by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in 2009. During 2010-12 and 2015-17, I actively contributed in the works of ECDC's European Network for Healthcare-associated Infection Surveillance (HAI-Net), serving as 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.
I achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, in 2017, following external evaluation of my experience, practice and leadership of teaching and learning. In 2018, I was elected Chartered Statistician (CStat), which is the Royal Statistical Society's, highest professional award.
I was elected Associate Editor in May 2022 and was appointed Senior Associate Editor in February 2024 for the journal "Public Health" of the Royal Society of Public Health (published by Elsevier).
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 and on 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).
- 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
- Exaly: 6953622
- Semantic Scholar
Profiles
- ScHARR, University of Sheffield
- ResearchGate
- Kudos
- SciProfiles