Stanford Club of Greece

Board of Directors Announcement

Dear Friends,

We would like to thank you all for your participation in our first ever virtual

general assembly. A special thank you goes out to our Election Committee

for their assistance and excellent work.

The new Board of Directors consists of the following individuals:

Officers

George Mavros, President

Dimitris Kalligas, Vice-President

Irina Taka, Secretary

Alexandros Benos, Treasurer

Members

Panos Bassios, Member

Stavroula Kampouridou, Member

Panos Karelis, Member

Paris Tsogkarlidis, Member

Vasilis Vassalos, Member

We are thankful to the membership for the trust and support and look forward to a productive two years! We look forward to the easing of the measures so that we may resume our in person activities. In the meantime Save the Date for October 19^th for a Special US Election themed event that we are organizing.

The Board of Directors

“COVID-19: high risks, high prevalence, high-level evidence,

and high-stake decisions”

Monday June 22nd, 2020 at 19:00 EEST

Dear friends,

We are very excited to invite you to the second webinar of the “virtual” speaker series we are organizing as Stanford Club of Greece titled “Deconstructing Covid-19, Re-Constructing the Economy”. The invited speaker will be Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis from Stanford School of Medicine and the title of his presentation is “COVID-19: high risks, high prevalence, high-level evidence, and high-stake decisions”. The event will take place on June 22nd at 19:00-20:00 EEST through Zoom.

The webinar will delineate efforts to understand the magnitude of risk conferred by COVID-19 and the gradient of risk across different populations and settings. It will also present data that try to assess the prevalence of the infection, since many infected people are asymptomatic or have very limited symptoms (and thus not tested). Furthermore, it will also provide an overview of the research agenda on rigorous testing and evaluation of interventions against COVID-19 and the caveats thereof. Finally, the implications of emerging evidence for high-stake decisions will be discussed.

Our goal is to hold a 1 hour Zoom session with Dr. Ioannidis as the speaker with the opportunity towards the end for the audience to ask written questions.

To register for the event click here.

Short Bio of Dr. Ioannidis

Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis , MD, DSc holds the C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention at Stanford, where he is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, and Professor (by courtesy) of Biomedical Data Science at the School of Medicine, Professor (by courtesy) of Statistics at the School of Humanities and Sciences, and co-Director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). He is the recipient of many awards and he has been elected as Einstein fellow at the Berlin Institute of Health. He has been inducted in the Association of American Physicians, the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, the American Epidemiological Society, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the US National Academy of Medicine. He has received honorary titles from FORTH and U Ioannina, honorary doctorates from U Rotterdam, U Athens, and U Tilburg and multiple honorary lectureships. He has published 7 literature books in Greek, the last four of them by the Kedros publishing house and with 3 of them being shortlisted for the best book of the year Anagnostis awards. The PLoS Medicine paper on “Why most published research findings are false” has been the most-accessed article in the history of Public Library of Science (>3 million hits). He is among the 10 scientists with the highest current citation rate in the world (~4,500 new citations per month per Google Scholar). In his website he states that he loves to be constantly reminded that he knows next to nothing.

Dr. Schulman on

“Deconstructing Covid-19, Re-Constructing the Economy”

Wednesday May 27th, 2020 at 19:00

Dear friends

We are very excited to invite you to the first of a “virtual” speaker series we are organizing as Stanford Club of Greece titled “Deconstructing Covid-19, Re-Constructing the Economy”. The event will take place on May 27th at 19:00-20:00 through Zoom.

Our first guest will be Dr. Kevin Schulman Professor of Medicine, Associate Chair of Business Development and Strategy in the Department of Medicine, Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Schulman’s research interests include organizational innovation in health care, health care policy and health economics. With over 300 original articles, 80 review articles/commentaries, and 40 case studies/book chapters, Kevin Schulman has had a broad impact on health policy. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Annals of Internal Medicine.

A few words from Dr. Schulman on the topic of his presentation: “The initial response to the COVID-19 crisis was implementation of policies mandating social distancing. The economic consequence of these policies has been severe. Across countries, we are now trying to understand how we can re-open economies while balancing public safety. At Stanford, we’re working to address these issues by building a working collaboration between faculty from the GSB, the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. This presentation will highlight the framework that been developed through these discussions, and provide some early results of our analysis.”

Our goal is to hold a 1 hour Zoom session with Dr. Schulman as the speaker with the opportunity towards the end for the audience to ask written questions.

To register for the event click the following link: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SI_yiDy4SauEtZcuFqmKHQ

We hope to see you all then!

Stanford Club of Greece

When: Wednesday May 27, 2020 at 7:00 PM

Register in advance here: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SI_yiDy4SauEtZcuFqmKHQ

You will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Dear Friends,

Following a record-breaking attendance in the recent elections -on 15/05/2018- we would like to thank you for your participation. A special thank you goes out to our Election Committee for their assistance and excellent work.

The new Board of Directors consists of the following individuals:

Officers

Giorgos Mavros, President

Dimitris Kalligas, Vice-President

Irina Taka, Secretary

Paris Karasso, Treasurer

Members

Alexandros Benos, Member

Stavroula Kampouridou, Member

Christos Stergiou, Member

Panagiotis Tsilingiris, Member

Paris Tsogkarlidis, Member

Alternate Members

1. Panos Karelis

2. Vasilis Vassalos

3. Haris Siganos

We are thankful to the membership for the trust and support, and look forward to a productive two years!

The Board of Directors