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Education
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Chaiditsa Ina Bouzi

Clinical Neuroscientist/ Medical Advisor
Athens

Summary

Clinical Neuroscientist with 2 years experience as Medical Advisor, having contributed in various medical fields (i.e. oncology, immunology, dermatology and ophthalmology) related to multinational Pharmaceutical Corporations (Novartis Hellas, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Théa). 8 years of Medical Experience in Hospital Environments (i.e. Eginitio Hospital-Center for Neurological Disorders, General Anti-Cancer Hospital “Saint Savvas”, Evangelismos Hospital, General Hospital of Athens "Sotiria"- University Mental Health Research Institute/UMHRI), providing neurological assessment and diagnosis and treatment assistance to the patients with disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system. Participation in national and global conferences, helping to increase professional development and expertise in Clinical Trials. Self- driven, highly motivated and patient-centered, who enjoy working in teams. Focus on serving patients by providing them personalized healthcare and innovative therapies. Soft skills i.e. trusting, caring, actively listening, work well individually as well as part of a team, flexibility, critical thinking, decision making, research skills, willingness to learn and working well under pressure.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
25
25
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Medical Advisor

Creative Pharma & HR Services S.M.S.A.
Athens, Chalandri
10.2021 - Current

- Provide medical expertise and advice for company’s projects.

- Oversee patient safety within clinical trials and discuss patient management issues with the investigators, acting as Medical Monitor of various studies.

- Successful develop, write and conclude Clinical Trial related documents, i.e. Clinical Trial Protocol and/or Synopsis, Informed Consent Form (ICFs), Case Reports forms, taking into consideration the GCP guidelines.

- Attend and provide input to external meetings, advisory boards, investigators’ meetings, and symposia.

- Collaborate with and provide medical/ clinical input to the study’s Medical Data Manager (DM)/ Medical Statistician (MS) (internal or external) for the development of Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) and the Statistical Analysis Report (SAR) of a Clinical Trial.

- Coordinate, review and approve data management and medical statistics projects and tasks (i.e. DMP, SAP, SAR).

- Certified MedDRA coder.

- Compile scientific and clinical research information for the purposes of medical writing such as educational material, abstracts, posters for conferences and manuscripts for publication purposes and assist/ advise the client on the submission/ review procedures of such manuscripts.

- Design, implement or endorse and approve tailor made training courses on clinical research, and medical/ therapeutic areas to accommodate clients’ needs.

Clinical Neuroscientist

General Anti-Cancer Hospital “Saint Savvas”
Athens, Alexandras Avenue
01.2020 - Current

- Neurological assessment and diagnosis and treatment assistance to the patients with Brain Tumor and Epilepsy.

- Engage in the implementation of individualized short-term and long-term treatment plans.

- Clinical Neuroscience Research Coordinator/Head Investigator in a clinical observational study related to clinical control and evaluation of the functional areas and the connectivity of the brain networks using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in patients with Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy during goal-directed auditory tasks.

- Medical writing of the Clinical Trial Protocol.

- Medical writing educational material, abstracts, posters for conferences and papers for publication purposes.

- Data preprocessing and programming analysis.

Biomedical Engineer/ Ph.D. Candidate

National Technical University Of Athens (NTUA), School Of Electrical And Computer Engineering (ECE)
Athens, Zografou Campus
10.2018 - Current

- Image Processing, Computer Neuroscience and Clinical Data Analysis in Biomedical Simulations and Imaging (BIOSIM) Lab.

- Ancillary teaching work in the context of the undergraduate courses i.e. Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Signal Analysis and Processing, Medical Imaging and Image Processing, M-health and E-health Technologies and Physiological Systems Modeling, Simulation and Control.

Clinical Neuroscientist

Evangelismos Hospital, Neurosurgery
Athens, Ipsilantou Str
11.2016 - 07.2018

- Neurological assessment and diagnosis and treatment assistance to the patients with disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system.

- Neuroscience Head Investigator in a clinical observational study related to effects of dopaminergic treatment in inhibition of saccadic eye movements in Parkinson and DBS Parkinson disease patients.

- Medical writing and statistical analysis.


Neuroscience Researcher

University Mental Health Research Institute (UMHRI)
Athens, Papagou
07.2015 - 07.2018

- Laboratory experiments, research of saccadic anti-saccadic eye movements in patients with schizophrenia and patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and healthy controls.

- Medical writing and statistical analysis.

Clinical Neuroscientist

Eginitio Hospital, Center For Neurological Disorders -
Athens, Vasillisis Sofias
04.2015 - 07.2018

- Neuropsychological assessment and mental empowerment in patients with dementia.

- Engage in the implementation of individualized short-term and long-term treatment plans.

- Monitoring, administration of the neuropsychological examination, diagnosis, and preparation of the neuropsychological evaluation reports for patients with schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and dementia.

- Medical writing and statistical analysis.

Clinical Neuroscientist

Alzheimer Hellas, Greek Association Of Alzheimer’s Disease And Related Disorders
Athens, Pangrati
06.2016 - 07.2017

- Neuropsychological assessment and mental empowerment in patients with dementia.

- Engage in the implementation of individualized short-term and long-term treatment plans.


Neuroscience Researcher

Biomedical Research Foundation (BRFAA) Of The Academy Of Athens
Athens, Soranou Ephessiou Street
02.2013 - 06.2013

- Laboratory experiments and in vivo research using mice models.

Neuroscience Researcher

National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens, Cognitive Science Lab
Athens, Zografou Campus
01.2010 - 05.2013

- Member in the “ Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Educational Technology” research team.

- Experimental procedure to research Stroop effect test on volunteer students.

- Statistical analysis.

Education

Ph.D. - Biomedical Engineering

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Athens, GR
10.2018 - Current

Master of Science - Data Science And Machine Learning

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Athens, GR
10.2018 - 02.2021

Master of Science - Clinical Neuropsychology-Cognitive Neuroscience

Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Montreal, Canada
10.2016 - 07.2018

M.D. - Medicine

School of Medicine, KNUA
Athens, GR
10.2013 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Philosophy And History of Science

School of Science, NTUA
Athens, GR
10.2010 - 06.2013

Skills

    MATLAB Programming

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Additional Courses

- Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford LEAD, Online Business Program Executive Education – "Decision Making: Neuroscience and the Connection to Exemplary Leadership (2/2023).

- Webinar – "MedDRA Coding Basics"  (10/2022).

-  Udemy Athens, Greece Webinar – " Complete Python Developer: Zero to Mastery" (2/2021). 

- Udemy Athens, Greece Webinar – " Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp" ( 2/2021). 

- Udemy Athens, Greece – " Convolution Neural Network in Python: CNN Computer Vision" (2/2021).

- Udemy Athens, Greece – " Complete Guide to Image Processing with MATLAB" (2/2020). 

- Coursera Athens, Greece – " Computational Neuroscience"  (2/2020). 

Honor & Awards

  • Special Account of Research Funds of NTUA- ΕLKE– Scholarship APRIL 2019
  • Onassis Foundation – Scholarship SEPTEMBER 2014
  • 1st Class Honours in BSc, Department Of History And Philosophy Of Science from KNUA – Swearing In Ceremony.

Scientific Publications & Presentations


  • AD/PD™ 2022 International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases and related neurological disorders.” EFFECTS OF DOPAMINERGIC TREATMENT IN INHIBITION OF SACCADES IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE”.Abstract Topic: Theme C: α-Synucleinopathies / C04.j. Imaging, Biomarkers, Diagnostics: Other Authors:C. Bouzi1,A. ALEXOUDI2 P. PATRIKELIS3, A. VERENTZIOTI4, M. STEFANATOU4, S. GATZONIS2, N. SMYRNIS5; 1NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, NEUROSURGEY, Athens, Greece, 2NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, ATHENS, NEUROSURGERY, Athens, Greece, 3NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, NEUROSURGERY,, Athens, Greece, 4NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, NEUROSURGERY, Athens, Greece, 5NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, PSYCHIATRY, Athens, Greece.
  • C. Bouzi, D. Stefanou, M. Pelechrini, S. Gatzonis, V. K. Katsaros, K. Nikita, “Evaluation Of Functional Connectivity Of Brain Networks During Goal-directed Auditory Tasks In Patients With Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy”, RSNA 2021 Redefining Radiology, 2021.
  • 29th Hellenic Conference of Neurology. "Seizures and seasonality in Greece". Corfu, June 2018.
  • 29th Panhellenic Conference of Neurology. "Administration of perabanel to patients with drug-resistant epilepsy" Corfu, June 2018.
  • 12th Hellenic Epilepsy Conference "Perampaneli in daily practice in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy", Ioannina, May 2018.
  • 1st Hellenic Conference on Neuropsychology, "The effect of dopaminergic therapy on the mechanism of inhibition in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease", Athens 27-29 April 2018.
  • RIIP International Course- Hellenic Pasteur Institute, "Cell Biology and infection: Digital Image Processing/Analysis Tools for Quantitative Light Microscopy Imaging" · Athens 4/ 7 /2016 - 8/ 7/ 2016.

Timeline

Medical Advisor

Creative Pharma & HR Services S.M.S.A.
10.2021 - Current

Clinical Neuroscientist

General Anti-Cancer Hospital “Saint Savvas”
01.2020 - Current

Biomedical Engineer/ Ph.D. Candidate

National Technical University Of Athens (NTUA), School Of Electrical And Computer Engineering (ECE)
10.2018 - Current

Ph.D. - Biomedical Engineering

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
10.2018 - Current

Master of Science - Data Science And Machine Learning

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
10.2018 - 02.2021

Clinical Neuroscientist

Evangelismos Hospital, Neurosurgery
11.2016 - 07.2018

Master of Science - Clinical Neuropsychology-Cognitive Neuroscience

Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
10.2016 - 07.2018

Clinical Neuroscientist

Alzheimer Hellas, Greek Association Of Alzheimer’s Disease And Related Disorders
06.2016 - 07.2017

Neuroscience Researcher

University Mental Health Research Institute (UMHRI)
07.2015 - 07.2018

Clinical Neuroscientist

Eginitio Hospital, Center For Neurological Disorders -
04.2015 - 07.2018

M.D. - Medicine

School of Medicine, KNUA
10.2013 - Current

Neuroscience Researcher

Biomedical Research Foundation (BRFAA) Of The Academy Of Athens
02.2013 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Science - Philosophy And History of Science

School of Science, NTUA
10.2010 - 06.2013

Neuroscience Researcher

National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens, Cognitive Science Lab
01.2010 - 05.2013
Chaiditsa Ina BouziClinical Neuroscientist/ Medical Advisor