16/03/2006 – 19/03/2006
3d international Congress for Medical Students and Young Doctors, Iasi, Romania
04/05/2006 – 05/05/2006
12th Symposium of Clinical Endocrinology, Iasi, Romania
10/12/2007
Clinical tutorial: “Application in clinical practice of the guidelines for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia”, Surgical Society of Corfu, Greece
10/10/2009
Scientific workshop: “Medical liability”, Medical Association of Corfu, Greece
15/20/2009 – 18/10/2009
29th PanHellenic Congress of Gastroenterology, Chalkidiki, Greece (18 CME Credits)
13/12/2011
Seminar on Viral Hepatitis – Epidemiology, prevention, treatment options, Surgical Society of Corfu, Greece
06/06/2011
Clinical Presentation: “Diabetic patient with hypoxaemia and haemolytic anaemia”, Surgical Society of Corfu, Greece
28/10/2011 – 29/10/2011
11th International Congress of Obesity, Corfu, Greece (10 CME Credits)
24/11/2011 – 26/11/2011
22nd PanHellenic Congress of Haematology, Hellenic Society of Haematology, Athens, Greece (12 CME Credits)
08/02/2012 – 11/02/2012
5th International Conference on Advance Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes, Barcelona, Spain (11 CME Credits)
27/04/2012 – 29/04/2012
17th Congress of the Surgical Society of Corfu, Corfu, Greece (15 CME Credits)
18/05/2012 – 19/05/2012
7th PanHellenic Congress in Cytometry, Athens, Greece
06/07/2012 – 08/07/2012
11th PanHellenic Workshop of the Association for the study of the diabetic foot: “Diabetic foot – Ulcers on the lower limbs – amputation prevention”, Lefkada, Greece (8 CME Credits)
21/09/2012 – 22/09/2012
5th Conference of the Association for the Study of risk factors for vascular disease: “Prevention and Treatment of cardiometabolic risk factors: current views”, Corfu, Greece
26/10/2012 – 27/10/2012
12th International Congress of Obesity, Corfu, Greece (16 CME Credits)
01/11/2012 – 03/11/2012
12th PanHellenic Congress of Gerontology – Geriatrics, Athens, November 01-03, 2012 (16 CME – CPD Credits)
27/02/2013 – 01/03/2013
6th National congress of Clinical Microbiology & Hospital Infections, Athens (14 CME Credits)
23/10/2013
Meeting for the diagnostic and therapeutic approach in patients with Scleroderma, Ioannina (3 CME Credits)
04/05/2014
Meeting for the acupuncture in medicine, Scientific Association
of Medical Acupuncture in Greece, Athens
29/05/2014 – 31/05/2014
8th National congress of Medical Biopathology, Athens (17 CME Credits)
03/04/2015 – 05/04/2015
Hellenic Society of Rheumatology, Thessaloniki: “Autoimmune, Rheumatic and Metabolic disease – The need for cooperation between medical specialties and their contribution to the quality of patients’ life” (17 CME Credits)
22/10/2015 – 24/10/2015
9th Balkan Congress of Microbiology, Thessaloniki: Microbiologia Balkanica 2015
07/11/2015
Rare Diseases and Orphan Medicines, Arta, 2015, Greece
26/05/2016 – 29/05/2016
Annual Scientific Symposium in Rheumatology, Corfu, Greece.
01/06/2016
Scientific Event “New horizons in the treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”, 01 June 2016, Ioannina, Greece
08/07/2016 – 10/07/2016
1st Clinical Seminar of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Heraklion-Crete, (11 CME Credits).
08/12/2016 – 11/12/2016
25th PanHellenic Congress in Rheumatology, Athens, Greece (20 CME Credits).
20/01/2017 – 21/01/2017
19th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece, Ioannina, Greece (6 CME Credits)
27/04/2017 – 30/04/2017
Annual Scientific Symposium in Rheumatology, Drama, Greece (19 CME Credits).
30/06/2017 – 02/07/2017
1st Saint Petersburg Congress on Autoimmunity, Saint Petersburg, Russia (15 CME Credits).
16/11/2017 – 19/11/2017
Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy: cytology – biomarkers – histology – and further management», 16-19 November 2017, Ioannina, Greece (25 CME Credits).
19/01/2018 – 20/01/2018
20th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece, Ioannina, Greece (6 CME Credits).
15/02/2018 – 17/02/2018
5th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress, Bordeaux, France (20 CME Credits).
04/05/2018 – 06/05/2018
16th PanHellenic Congress of Liver diseases, Athens, Greece.
16/05/2018 – 20/05/2018
11th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Lisbon, Portugal (38 CME Credits).
01/06/2018 – 03/06/2018
Annual Scientific Symposium in Rheumatology, Volos, Greece (8 CME Credits).
13/06/2018 – 16/06/2018
Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (2018), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
05/09/2018 – 08/09/2018
The 37th Scandinavian Congress of Rheumatology (2018), Helsinki, Finland.
19/10/2018 – 24/10/2018
American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting (2018), Chicago, USA.
06/12/2018 – 09/12/2018
26th PanHellenic Congress in Rheumatology, Athens, Greece (20 CME Credits)
18/01/2018 – 19/01/2018
21th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece, Ioannina, Greece (6 CME Credits).
14/03/2019 – 16/03/2019
5th International Congress on Controversies in Rheumatology & Autoimmunity, Florence, Italy (15 CME Credits).
18/04/2019 – 21/04/2019
11th Panhellenic EPEMY Congress, Corfu, Greece (15 CME Credits)
15/05/2019 – 18/05/2019
45th Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress, Athens, Greece
31/05/2019 – 02/06/2019
Annual Scientific Symposium in Rheumatology, Kalamata, Greece
28/06/2019 – 30/06/2019
Spring Scientific Event: Autoimmune, Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal and Metabolic Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece
15/11/2019 – 17/11/2019
Panhellenic Symposium in Autoimmune, Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal and Metabolic diseases, Volos, Greece
05/12/2019 – 08/12/2019
Postgraduate Courses in Rheumatology (23rd), Thessaloniki, Greece
17/01/2020 – 18/01/2020
22nd Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece, Ioannina, Greece (5 CME Credits)
03/06/2020 - 06/06/2020
EULAR - European e-congress of Rheumatology 2020 (19 CME Credits)
06/11/2020 - 08/11/2020
27th PanHellenic Congress of the Greek Association of Bone Metabolism (EEMO) (18 CME Credits)
05/11/2020 - 09/11/2020
American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting - All virtual (2020), USA (80 CME Credits)
10/12/2020 - 13/12/2020
27th PanHellenic Congress in Rheumatology, Athens - Virtual, Greece (20 CME Credits)
18/12/2020 - 20/12/2020
Panhellenic Symposium in Autoimmune, Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal and Metabolic diseases, Virtual, Greece
22/01/2021 - 23/01/2021
23rd Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece. Ioannina-Virtual, Greece (10 CME Credits)
28/05/2021 - 30/05/2021
Spring days of Rheumatology, Annual Congress. Ioannina, Greece
02/06/2021 - 05/06/2021
EULAR - European Congress of Rheumatology 2021
02/09/2021 - 05/09/2021
13th Panhellenic EPEMY Congress, Chalkidiki, Greece (15 CME Credits)
08/10/2021 - 10/10/2021
3rd Immunology Workshop for Clinicians, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (21 CME Credits)
22/11/2021
Standardized Platelet-Rich Plasma for Musculoskeletal Disorders, BioBridge Foundation
16/12/2021 - 19/12/2021
Postgraduate Courses in Rheumatology (24th), Thessaloniki, Greece (22 CME Credits)
21/12/2022 - 22/01/2022
24th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece, Ioannina, Greece (10 CME Credits)
01/06/2022 - 04/06/2022
EULAR - European Congress of Rheumatology 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark (21 CME Credits)
29/06/2022
EULAR Study Group on Microcirculation in Rheumatic Diseases (EULAR SG MC/RD) (MS Teams meeting)
09/09/2022 - 11/09/2022
4th Polythematic Panhellenic Congress of Autoimmune Diseases, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, 2022, Lefkada, Greece (23 CME Credits)
20/09/2022 - 23/09/2022
28th European Paediatric Rheumatology Congress, PReS 2022, Prague, Chezh Republic
29/09/2022 - 02/10/2022
14th Panhellenic EPEMY Congress, 2022, Rhodes Island, Greece
08/12/2022 - 11/12/2022
28th Panhellenic Congress in Rheumatology, Athens, Greece
21/01/2023 - 22/01/2023
25th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece, Ioannina, Greece (7 CME Credits)
22/04/2023 - 23/04/2023
Challenges and opportunities in the fight against rheumatic diseases, Kalamata, Greece
31/05/2023 - 03/06/2023
European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR), Milan, Italy
15/06/2023 - 18/06/2023
3rd Panhellenic Summer symposium for the musculoskeletal health, Volos, Greece
28/09/2023 – 01/10/2023
29th European Paediatric Rheumatology Congress (PReS 2023), Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2023
21/10/2023 - 22/10/2023
RheumaLive: Individualized treatment strategy for patients with rheumatic diseases. Chania, Crete, Greece
21/01/2024 - 22/01/2024
26th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece, Ioannina, Greece (15 CME Credits)
02/03/2024 - 02/03/2024
7th Scientific Symposium “Innovative therapies and interdisciplinary collaborations in Rheumatology”, 424 Military Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (8 CME Credits)
06/04/2024 - 07/04/2024
Rheum for All - Opportunities and challenges in the management of inflammatory arthrititides, Rethymno, Crete, Greece
13/04/2024 - 14/04/2024
"Caring for old age", Pantheon, Igoumenitsa, Greece
Congresses/Conferences
23/11/2006 – 26/11/2006 10th National Congress for students and young doctors, Bucharest 2006 “Evolution of nosocomial infections, microbial sensitivity to antibiotics of isolated strains from patients in the pulmonology clinic in Iasi, Romania” (congress speaker)
27/04/2012 – 29/04/2012 17th Congress of the Surgical Society of Corfu, Corfu, April 27-29, 2012: “Clinical Case Presentation – Ischaemic Colitis, an interesting case” (congress speaker)
01/11/2012 – 03/11/2012 12th PanHellenic Congress of Gerontology – Geriatrics, Athens, November 01-03, 2012: “Infection as a cause of hospitalization in the elderly” and „Hospitalized elderly patients due to infection and factors associated with mortality” (posters)
27/02/2013 – 01/03/2013 6th national congress of Clinical Microbiology & Hospital Infections, Athens: “Study of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus strains, isolated from epidermic and soft tissue infections” (poster)
23/05/2013 – 26/05/2013 6th PanHellenic and 5th Paneuropean Scientific and Nursing Congress, Lefkada: “A comparative study of job satisfaction of the medical and nursing staff in two regional hospitals in Greece” (congress speaker)
29/05/2014 – 31/05/2014 8th National Congress of Medical Biopathology, Athens: “Relation of parietal cell antibodies with autoimmune diseases other than type A gastritis” (poster)
22/10/2015 – 24/10/2015 9th Balkan Congress of Microbiology, Thessaloniki: “Relation of parietal cell antibodies with anti-thyroid antibodies and diabetes mellitus Correlation with autoimmune polyglandular syndrome” (poster)
02/06/2016 – 04/06/2016 9th National Congress of Medical Biopathology, Athens: “Seroepidemiological dimensions of rubella in children of Northwest Greece” (poster)
20/01/2017 – 21/01/2017 19th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece: “Biologic Treatments during pregnancy and lactation” (congress speaker)
27/04/2017 – 30/04/2017 Annual Scientific Symposium in Rheumatology, Drama, Greece: Case presentation – fever, arthralgias and hepatosplenomegaly (congress speaker).
18/11/2017 “Biologics and HPV” in «Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy: cytology – biomarkers – histology – and further management», Ioannina, Greece (congress speaker).
20/01/2018 “Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis, a therapeutic approach” 20th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece (congress speaker)
15/02/2018 – 17/02/2018 5th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress, Bordeaux, France: “Systemic Sclerosis and Cancer Development. A single-centre experience” (poster).
04/05/2018 – 06/05/2018 16th PanHellenic Congress of Liver diseases, Athens, Greece: The incidence of Primary Biliary cholangitis in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome in a tertiary hospital in Northwestern Greece (oral presentation).
03/06/2018 Annual Scientific Symposium in Rheumatology, Volos, Greece: 50-years old patient with fever of unknown origin (congress speaker).
13/06/2018 – 16/06/2018 Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018), Amsterdam, Netherlands:
- FRI0101 Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Unmet needs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. An observational study and a real-life experience from a single university center (poster).
- AB0720 Pelechas E, Kaltsonoudis E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Systemic sclerosis and cancer development. A single-centre experience (poster).
- AB0542 Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Konitsiotis S, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Multiple sclerosis in patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (poster).
05/09/2018 – 08/09/2018 The 37th Scandinavian Congress of Rheumatology (2018), Helsinki, Finland:
- PP73 Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Prolongation or discontinuation of TNF inhibitors in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Could this be a realistic scenario? (poster)
19/10/2018 – 24/10/2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting (2018), Chicago, USA:
- P680 Pelechas E, Kaltsonoudis E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Unmet needs in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis. A long-term observational study from a single University centre (poster).
06/12/2018 – 09/12/2018 26th PanHellenic Congress in Rheumatology:
- Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Papoudou-Bai A, Elisaf M, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. The impact of temporal artery biopsy for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis in clinical practice in a tertiary university hospital (poster).
- Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Unmet needs in the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. An observational study and a real-life experience from a single university center (poster).
- Pelechas E, Kaltsonoudis E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Unmet needs in the treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis. A long-term observational study from a single university center (poster).
- Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Prolongation or discontinuation of TNF inhibitors in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Could this be a realistic scenario? (poster).
- Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Svarna E, Kosta P, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Pulmonary involvement in rheumatoid arthritis. A long-term observational study in a tertiary university center (poster).
19/01/2019 “Spondyloarthropathies – an update” 21th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece (congress presenter)
18/04/2019 – 21/04/2019 11th Panhellenic EPEMY Congress, Corfu, Greece (15 CME Credits):
- Interesting Medical Cases from the Rheumatology Clinic of the University Hospital of Ioannina, Division of Rheumatology: “low back pain in a young lady”, and “Symmetrical polyarthritis – an unusual case”
15/05/2019 – 18/05/2019 45th Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress, Athens, Greece “The diagnostic value of temporal artery biopsy in temporal arteritis”
31/05/2019 – 02/06/2019 Annual Scientific Symposium in Rheumatology, Kalamata, Greece: “A patient with oligoarthritis” (congress speaker – 16 CME Credits).
12/06/2019 – 15/06/2019 Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2019), Madrid, Spain:
- FRI0394 Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Maintained Clinical Remission in Ankylosing Spondylitis patients switched from reference Infliximab to its biosimilar. An 18-month comparative open-label study (poster).
- THU0671 Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Pulmonary involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis: patterns and epidemiological characteristics from a monocentric cohort study (poster).
- AB1272 Kaltsonoudis E, Pelechas E, Voulgari PV, Drosos AA. Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with extension of the anti-TNF interdose intervals. A monocentric off-label study (abstract).
28/06/2019 – 30/06/2019 Spring Scientific Event: Autoimmune, Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal and Metabolic Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece: “Rheumatoid Arthritis. Patient approach and diagnostic dilemmas” (Congress presenter: 21 CME Credits).
15/11/2019 – 17/09/2019 Panhellenic Symposium in Autoimmune, Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal and Metabolic Diseases, Volos, Greece: “Diagnosis of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis” (Congress speaker: 19 CME Credits).
05/12/2019 – 08/12/2019 Postgraduate Courses in Rheumatology (23rd), Thessaloniki, Greece: “The specialty of Rheumatology in Greece: problems, needs, percpectives” (Congress speaker: 24 CME Credits).
03/06/2020 – 06/06/2020 EULAR – European e-congress of Rheumatology 2020: Nailfold videocapillaroscopy reporting in clinical research: International Delphi based cohort (as a member of the European League against Rheumatism – EULAR – study group on microcirculation in rheumatic diseases and the Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium).
06/11/2020 – 08/11/2020 27th Panhellenic Congress of the Greek Association of Bone Metabolism (EEMO) (18 CME Credits). Contemporary views on the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis – Relationship between osteoarthritis and osteoporosis (congress presenter: 18 CME Credits).
10/12/2020 – 13/12/2020 27th PanHellenic Congress in Rheumatology, Athens – Virtual, Greece. Update on Rheumatoid Arthritis and Sjögren’s syndrome from ACR 2020 (congress presenter: 21 CME Credits).
18/12/2020 – 20/12/2020 Panhellenic Symposium in Autoimmune, Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal and Metabolic diseases, Thessaloniki – Virtual, Greece. Treatment of HCV related cryoglobulinemia (congress presenter)
22/01/2021 – 23/01/2021 23rd Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece. Ioannina-Virtual. Greece (10 CME Credits). 1. Occupational mimics of Rheumatoid Arthritis: hair dye induced arthritis (congress presenter), 2) Opioid therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis (congress presenter).
28/05/2021 – 30/05/2021 Spring days of Rheumatology, Annual Congress. Ioannina, Greece. Year in review: inflammatory arthritides (oral presentation)
02/06/2021 – 05/06/2021 EULAR – European e-congress of Rheumatology 2021 (19 CME Credits). The effect of SARS-CoV-2 on the course and the treatment of rheumatic inflammatory diseases. Experience from the northwestern Greece (poster)
02/09/2021 – 05/09/2021 13th Panhellenic EPEMY Congress, Chalkidiki, Greece. Undifferentiated Spondyloarthritis (oral presentation).
20/09/2022 – 23/09/2022 28th European Paediatric Rheumatology Congress, PReS 2022, Prague, Chezh Republic. The adulthood transition of patients with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in the era of biologic agents (poster)
29/09/2022 – 02/10/2022 14th Panhellenic EPEMY Congress, 2022, Rodes Island, Greece. 1) Treatment persistence of anti-TNF treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis (poster), 2) Interdose interval extension or even treatment discontinuation of anti-TNFs. Could this be a realistic scenario? (poster), 3) Pulmonary fibrosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis. An observational study and real-world data (oral presentation).
08/12/2022 - 11/12/2022 28th Panhellenic Congress in Rheumatology, Athens, Greece. 1) Incidence and risk factors for neoplasia in systemic sclerosis. Data from a tertial hospital in north-western Greece (poster) 2) Risk of neoplasia in rheumatoid arthritis patients (poster) 3) Monocentric study of the use of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (synthetic and biologic) in patients with rheumatic diseases and COVID-19 infection (poster)
21/01/2023 – 22/01/2023 25th Winter Rheumatology Meeting of NW Greece. Ioannina, Greece. Psoriatic Arthritis: the importance of the patients’ profile and his expectations of the therapeutic intervention (oral presentation)
16/03/2023 - 18/03/2023 7th CORA (controversies in Rheumatology and Autoimmunity), Turin, Italy. Sex differences in disease severity among patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A retrospective cohort study.
31/05/2023 - 03/06/2023 European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR): 1) AB0930 - the value of the current diagnostic tools in the diagnosis of inflammatory myopathies. A multi centre study (abstract), 2) AB1338 - Clinical course in COVID-19 disease in immunosuppressed patients diagnosed with rheumatic diseases (abstract)
15/06/2023 - 18/06/2023 3rd Panhellenic Summer symposium for the musculoskeletal health, Volos, Greece. Rockport test II “analysis and presentation of data regarding cardiac changes with the exercise of different intensity during the morning exercise of the symposium delegates” (Chair Pelechas Eleftherios – presenter Metsios Georgios, Professor of clinical ergophysiology, University of Thessaly)
28/09/2023 – 01/10/2023 29th European Paediatric Rheumatology Congress (PReS 2023), Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2023, Similarities and differences between juvenile idiopathic arthritis and adult rheumatoid arthritis. Data from two university centres (poster)
21/10/2023 - 22/10/2023 RheumaLive: Individualized treatment strategy for patients with rheumatic diseases. Chania, Crete, Greece. "Therapeutic dilemmas in daily clinical practice: a case report with psoriatic arthritis and atopic dermatitis (oral presentation)
02/03/2024 - 02/03/2024 7th Scientific Symposium “Innovative therapies and interdisciplinary collaborations in Rheumatology”, 424 Military Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Rheumatic manifestations of malignancy (oral presentation)
14/03/2024 – 16/03/2024 8th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress, Prague, Chezh Republic. Sex-related differences in Systemic Sclerosis (Koletsos N, Pelechas E, Tziortzioti Z, Drosos AA, Voulgari PV, Kaltsonoudis E.) (poster presentation).
13/04/2024 - 14/04/2024
"Caring for old age", Pantheon, Igoumenitsa, Greece. Introduction to degenerative and inflammatory arthritides (oral presentation)
Oral presentations/Posters/Abstracts
