Talia Tsivitanidou Kakourou

Background

Kakourou, Talia Tsivitanidou was born in Cyprus.

Education

Medical diploma, University Athens, 1975; Specialized pediatrician, University Athens, 1980; Doctor of Medicine, University Athens, 1988.

Career

House officer in internal medicine Tzanion Hospital Pireaus, 1976-1977. Registrar in pediatrics Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, University Athens, 1978-1980, senior registrar in pediatrics fellow, 1980-1985. Clinical assistant pediatrics dermatology St. Thomas Hospital, London, 1986-1987, Hospital for Sick Children, London, 1986-1987.

Clinical assistant dermatology Syngros Hospital for Skin Diseases, Athens, 1988-1989. Consultant in pediatric dermatology Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, University Athens, since 1990.

Achievements

• She participated in 72 European/ international congresses with oral presentations/ lectures or as a chairperson.

Works

• article

  • 130 papers (40 of them in English)

• book

  • Author of the chapter of dermatology in four Greek pediatric textbooks and the chapter of “venereal diseases in children” in a Greek textbook of venereology.

• PhD

  • Parathyroid function in thalassaemic children and correlation with iron load

Membership

Member European Society for Pediatric Dermatology

• Member

  European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.

• Member since 1999. Secretary general 2008-2010. President 2010-2012.

  European Society for Pediatric Dermatology

• Founding Member. Secretary - current.

  Hellenic Society of Paediatric Dermatology

• Secretary

  9th congress of the ESPD

  2008

• Organizer

  2nd ESPD Summer School on board in the Agean

  2011

Connections

Daughter of George and Melanie (Efthymiou) Tsivitanidou. Married Stavros Kakouros, Children: Nikos, Melania, Georgia.