Athanasios Diamandopoulos

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Athanasios Diamandopoulos (born 1943) is a Greek nephrologist and writer on medicine. He was born in Arginio, Greece, and grew up in Patras and Ioannina. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, finishing in 1967, and completed his pathology specialization at Alexandra Hospital in 1974. That year he moved to Glasgow on a state scholarship. He returned to Greece in 1978 with a PhD from the University of Athens and a PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) from the University of Glasgow, a nephrology specialty, and he had married a Scottish woman.

Back in Greece, he joined the Renal Unit at the regional hospital Agios Andreas in Patras, where he is head of the department. In 1986 he became an associate professor at the University of Athens. In 1996 he earned a degree in Archaeology from the University of Ioannina and also went to London to study the history of medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

He has led several professional organizations: president of the Medical Society of Southern Greece for seven years; president of the International Society for the History of Medicine from 2004 to 2008; and he has held roles in the UNESCO Committee for the History of Medicine, the Greek Society for the History and Archaeology of Medicine, and on councils of nephrology history groups.

Diamandopoulos has written 16 books and more than 400 articles in Greek and international journals, including Nature, The Lancet, and Kidney International. His main interests are medical research, nephrology, bioethics, and the history of medicine. He also reviews for The Times Literary Supplement and Kidney International. During his 30 years as head of the Renal Department at Agios Andreas, he supervised over 12,000 haemodialysis sessions. He lives in Romanou, near Patras, with his wife and children.