Kritsotakis Evangelos
March 21, 2025 2025-11-03 9:09Kritsotakis Evangelos
Kritsotakis Evangelos
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Laboratory of Biostatistics
Medical School, University of Crete, P.C. 70013 Heraklion, Crete
Evangelos Kritsotakis joined the School of Medicine at the University of Crete as an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in December 2018. Before this, he held a post as a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the University of Sheffield, UK (2014-2018), where he maintained an honorary position of Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Population Health until December 2024.
Dr Kritsotakis is an elected Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, UK, and an elected Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the journal ‘Public Health’ (Royal Society for Public Health, UK) and an Associate Editor for the journal ‘npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine’ (International Primary Care Respiratory Group). He is an active member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, serving on the ISCB Student Conference Award Committee. He is a statistical reviewer for journals in the Lancet group and conducts ad-hoc reviews of research papers in numerous reputable medical research journals. He was recognised as one of the top reviewers in 2020 for the journal “Clinical Microbiology and Infection” of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He has significant experience as an expert/reviewer in national and international (European Commission) large-scale research funding evaluations.
2017: PGCert Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.
2007: PhD, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Crete, GR. Dissertation topic: “Development of an antibiotic use surveillance system, statistical investigation of the relationship between antibiotic consumption and antimicrobial resistance, and implementation of evidence-based antibiotic policies in the district general hospitals of Crete” (supervisor: Dr Achilleas Gikas).
2005: PGCert International Course in Applied Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and CDC, USA. http://web1.sph.emory.edu/epicourses/internat.htm
2000: MSc Statistics & Operational Research, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Health, University of Essex, UK. Mater’s dissertation topic: “Statistical issues in credit scoring classification” (supervisor: Dr H.G. Li).
1998: BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences & Engineering, University of Crete, GR. Undergraduate dissertation topic “Applications of the Theory of Modules in Group Theory and Linear Algebra” (supervisor: Dr Alexis Kouvidakis)
Fields of research activity:
• Design and analysis of prognostic clinical studies using survival analysis methods
• Development, validation and application of clinical prediction models and algorithms
• Intervention evaluation using quasi-experimental designs and time series models
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of epidemiological studies
• Interdisciplinary research in healthcare epidemiology to control multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections
• International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) https://iscb.international/
• Royal Statistical Society (RSS) https://rss.org.uk/
• Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) https://www.rsph.org.uk/
• Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE) https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/
• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases https://www.escmid.org/
