Journal of General Practice

Dr. Christos Lionis

Professor Christos Lionis Director Clinic of Social and Family Medicine University of Crete Tel: +30 2810 394621

Biography

Christos Lionis MD, PhD, Hon FRCGP is  an eminent Professor at Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, University of Crete Medical School, Crete, Greece. Christos Lionis graduated from the University of Athens Medical School in 1979, and is qualified in both Internal Medicine and Social Medicine. He also holds a PhD from the University of Crete entitled: "An educational intervention in junior high school students for the prevention of coronary heart disease". He has also worked at Crete Medical School as a professor and as Manager and Medical Director of Spili Health Centre. His major research interests are mainly focused in multidisciplinary approaches to health care, and consideration of social and psychological factors affecting health and health information and  interventions. His research goals aims to aid General Practitioners in diagnosis by integrating decision support directly into their electronic records systems and the second FP7 Project aims to optimize the delivery of primary healthcare to migrants by implementing evidence-based health information and interventions to address language and cultural barriers in primary care.

Research Interest

General Practitice, Electronic records systems, Optimize the delivery of primary healthcare to migrants by implementing evidence-based health information and interventions to address language and cultural barriers in primary care