Vaporidi Aikaterini
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Vaporidi Aikaterini
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Medical School, University of Crete, P.C. 71003 Heraklion, Crete
Dr Katerina Vaporidi is a Pulmonologist – Intensivist, Associate Professor of Intensive Care at the Medical School of the University of Crete. She graduated from the University of Patras Medical School, specialised in Pulmonology and trained in Adult Intensive Care at Pagni ICU. She completed her PhD thesis at the University of Crete and continued her postdoctoral research in Boston at the Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a faculty member of the Medical School of the University of Crete and has been working as intensivist in the ICU of PAGNH since 2010. She is also in charge of the Cardiopulmonary exercise testing laboratory at PAGNH hospital andof the experimental ICU laboratory at the Medical School. Her research interests include mechanical ventilation and immunological mechanisms in sepsis and acute lung injury. She is involved in education on mechanical ventilation, organizing seminars at the University of Crete and participating as trainer in Greek and international conferences and seminars.
Medical Degree from the Medical School of the University of Patras 1997
Specialization in Pulmonology at the PAGNH University Pulmonology Department 2005
Specialization in Adult Intensive Care at the PAGNH University ICU, 2008
Doctoral thesis from the Medical School of the University of Crete, 2007
Postdoctoral research at the Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research, Massachusetts General Hospital 2008-10
Τα ερευνητικά μου ενδιαφέροντα περιλαμβάνουν τον μηχανικό αερισμό και την αλληλεπίδραση ασθενούς αναπνευστήρα, τo ARDS τόσο σε ασθενείς, όσο και σε πειραματικά μοντέλα, καθώς και τους ανοσολογικούς μηχανισμούς που συμμετέχουν στην βλάβη του πνεύμονα και στη σήψη.
Ελληνική Εταιρεία Εντατικής Θεραπείας
Ελληνική Πνευμονολογική Εταιρεία
Ευρωπαική Εταιρεία Εντατικής Θεραπείας
Ευρωπαική Πνευμονολογική Εταιρεία
Research at the laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine focuses on mechanisms of common pathologic conditions encountered in Intensive Care that have significant effects on patient outcome, specifically sepsis, acute lung injury (ALI – ARDS) and ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). We use mouse models to study:
a) mechanisms that contribute to ventilator lung injury
b) mechanisms of sepsis-induced lung injury
c) Characterizing the immune system dysfunctions occurring at the late stages of sepsis
