Periklis Giovas

Internal Medicine Specialist with a PhD in pediatric hypertension from the School of Medicine, National & Capodistrian University of Athens. He was trained in the University Hypertension Center ("Sotiria" Thoracic Diseases General Hospital). His clinical research focused on cardiovascular disease in Greece and Switzerland.

He has been actively involved in the telehealth field since 1994 - initially with electrocardiogram transmission from moving ambulance ("Laiko" General Hospital) and afterwards with home telecare of chronic patients ("Sotiria" Thoracic Diseases General Hospital).

He was lead author of "Telemedicine in Practice" (2005), "The 100 Secrets of Hypertension" (2012) and "Usual Suspects of Heart and Vessels" (2020).

He works as Medical Director at the local affiliate of Amgen (biotechnology company).