Associate Professor, Section of Pharmaceutical Technology

Education

• Degree in Physics (University of Athens)
• MSc in Physics (University of Athens)
• PhD in Pharmacy (University of Athens)

Teaching

Undergraduate courses/labs:

• General Mathematics, 
• Introduction to Programming and Computational Applications, 
• Introduction to Clinical Pharmacy, 
• Laboratory of Biopharmaceutics – Pharmacokinetics, 
• Introduction to Laboratory Practices

Graduate courses: 

• Pharmacometrics (MSc Biostatistics), 
• Applications of Statistics to Pharmaceutical Sciences, 
• Laboratory Exercises in Industrial Pharmacy (MSc Industrial Pharmacy),
• Application of Pharmacokinetics to Therapeutics (MSc Clinical Pharmacy), 
• Basics of Nanomedicine (MSc in Nanomedicine)

• Research topics

• Development of new methods in Pharmacometrics
• Model Informed Drug Development (MIDD)
• In silico clinical trials
• Clinical Pharmacokinetics 

Distinctions

• Member of the Modelling and Simulation Working Party (MSWP) of the European Medicines Agency (2016-now)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (2011-now)

Recent publications

• Tsakris A, Koumaki V, Dokoumetzidis A. Minocycline susceptibility breakpoints for Acinetobacter baumannii: do we need to re-evaluate them? J Antimicrob Chemother. 74:295-297 (2019)
• Athanasiadou I, Dokoumetzidis A, Voss SC, El Saftawy W, Al-Maadheed M, Valsami G, Georgakopoulos C. Hyperhydration effect on pharmacokinetic parameters and detection sensitivity of recombinant human erythropoietin in urine and serum doping control analysis of males. J Pharm Sci 108:2162-2172 (2019).
• Tsiros P, Bois FY, Dokoumetzidis A, Tsiliki G, Sarimveis H. Population Pharmacokinetic Reanalysis of a Diazepam PBPK Model: A Comparison of Stan and GNU MCSim. J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn. 46:173-192 (2019).
• Pillai N, Schwartz SL, Ho T, Dokoumetzidis A, Bies R, Freedman I. Estimating Parameters of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems in Pharmacology using Chaos Synchronization and Grid Search. J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn. 46:193-210 (2019).
• Athanasiadou I, Vonaparti A, Saleh A, Mbeloug M, Dokoumetzidis A, Valsami G, Georgakopoulos C. Effect of hyperhydration on pharmacokinetics and detection of orally administered budesonide in doping control analysis. Scand J Med Sci Sports 29:1489-1500 (2019).
• Tsiligiannis A., Sfouni M., Nalda-Molina R., Dokoumetzidis A. Optimization of a paediatric fixed dose combination mini-tablet and dosing regimen for the first line treatment of tuberculosis. Eur J Pharm Sci  138:105016 (2019).

Contact

Postal address: Section of Pharmaceutical Technology
Department of Pharmacy,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Panepistimiopolis, 157 84
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30(210) 7274122
Fax: +30(210) 7274207
e-mail: adokoum@pharm.uoa.gr