Sandy Kolovos
She graduated from the Medical School of the GR.T.Popa University, Iasi, Romania, in 2001. Following the degree recognition examinations at the Greek Inter-University Center for the Recognition of Foreign Degrees, that same year, she completed her rural service obligation at the Artificial Kidney Unit and the Intensive Care Unit of the Tripoli Regional Hospital. While waiting for her specialty training, she worked as an unskilled nephrologist and administration manager at the private clinic ‘Galinos’ Artificial Kidney Unit. In 2008, she had completed the two years of prerequisite training in Pathology at ‘KAT’ Hospital, Athens, and for nine months she worked as a non-specialty doctor at UK clinics working on behalf of the NHS, doing morning shifts and on-call time. She received a one-year training at the University Nephrology Clinic of the Ioannina Hospital, and completed her specialty training in Nephrology, in 2013, at the Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Clinic of ‘Laiko’ General Athens Hospital. In 2018, she received the title of Doctor from the University of Athens Medical School, with a grade of “excellence.” Afterwards, she completed her training in Intensive Care at the Intensive Care Unit of ‘Laiko’ Hospital and received the respective specialty title in 2019. Since 2013, she has been working as a skilled nephrologist at the Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Clinic of ‘Laiko’ – even while training at the ICU of the same hospital.
Her doctoral thesis was informed by her research on the pathogenesis of autoimmune kidney diseases. She also participates in seven multicenter clinical trials, phase I & II, as a co-researcher, and for two of them is a coordinator for all medical centers nationwide. She lectures and publishes independently at various conferences and educational events, in Greece and internationally, and takes part at the training program for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University of Athens Medical School.
Her writings have appeared in international journals and Greek collective volumes.