Konstantinos Petsios

Konstantinos Petsios is an Assistant Professor of Paediatric Nursing at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He graduated from the NKUA's Faculty of Nursing in 2001, and then completed postgraduate studies in Clinical Nursing (2004) and Health Services Management (2019), as well as PhD studies in Paediatric Nursing in 2009. He has more than 15 years of clinical nursing experience, specializing in paediatric intensive care. He served for five years as Head of Clinical Research Office and the Research Unit at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (OCSC). His work focuses on enriching and updating paediatric nursing education, strengthening and supporting clinical research, developing databases for use in analytic and prognostic models, promoting innovation and implementation of digital technology in health services, implementing clinical governance and clinical effectiveness indicators, improving targeted retraining of health professionals, and systematically monitoring care quality and patient satisfaction.

Aside from his clinical work, he is involved in research and education, both in Greece and abroad. He has been lecturing in both undergraduate (since 2002) and postgraduate level (since 2006), primarily in Paediatric Nursing, but also in relevance to clinical practice, public health, and health services management. He has a great number of research publications in Greek and English language as well as chapters in academic books. He actively participates in scientific associations, organizing and scientific committees of International and European conferences and as an invited speaker in international forums and scientific conferences. He serves as a reviewer or/and as an Editorial Board Member in recognized international scientific journals and his published work is widely acknowledged in his field of expertise as indicated by the great number of published articles and the number of the citations that follow them.