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Gerasimos E. Krassas, M.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine
and Head of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Panagia
Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. He worked for 4 years as a research
registrar at the Endocrinology Department of Central Middlesex Hospital,
London. He also spent 6 months as visiting Professor at the Department of
Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, U.S.A.,
under a NATO fellowship. Recently, he was elected visiting Professor at the
University of Beograd, Serbia. Presently, he serves as president of the Hellenic
Society for the study and application of GH and he is past vice-president of the
Hellenic Endocrine Society. He is a member of the European Group for the study of
Graves' orbitopathy (Eugogo). Prof. Krassas, is author and co-author of numerous
national and international publications, mainly in thyroidology and contributed
to several textbooks. His main interests in thyroid disease are Graves'
ophthalmopathy, hyper- and hypothyroidism, thyroid autoimmunity and nonthyroidal
illness. He organized several national, Balkan and European meetings and symposia
and in 1998 he chaired the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on
Thyroid Eye Disease, which was held at Olympus Riviera, Pieria, Greece.
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