Alexandros Gerakis NEPHROLOGIST

• 1995 Medical School. University of Athens “Correlation of osteocalcin and procollagen-I with bone histomorphometry in renal osteodystrophy”

AD-HOC REVIEWER for peer-reviewed international journals

• Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation
• Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions

• Private surgery
• Renal unit of”Red cross”clinic, Athens
• Vice –Director of haemodialysis unit of ”Hygeia” Hospital, Athens
• Director of renal unit of “Aristotelion” clinic, Athens
• Nephrology Department, “Hygeia” Hospital, Athens

Education Experience:

• Clinic lessons in Nephrology Department of Evagelismos Hospital, “Laikon” General Hospital, General Hospital of Athens and Nikaea and Medical school University of Herakleion, Creete .
• Postgraguate seminars of osteoporosis Κ.Α.Τ.
• Postgraguate lessons,Medical School of university of Athens
• Nurse’s Seminars, Gereral Hospital of Athens
• Lectures in clinical seminars

• Acute kidney disease
• Glomerulonephritis
• Minerals disturbances
• Osteoporosis

• Metabolic bone disease
• Renal nutrition
• Minerals metabolism

• Giant cell vasculitis, Takayasu arteritis and Kawasaki disease in: Kidney and systemic disorders, Athens 2001. Volume A, pages 238-245.
• Acute renal failure in: evolutions of Internal Medicine. Athens 2001, pages 391-410.
• Contrast nephropathy in “Clinical Nephrology” Athens 2004
• Renal osteodystrophy in “Clinical Nephrology” Athens 2004
• Nephrotic syndrome: disturbances of calcium and vitamin D in “Clinical Nephrology” Athens 2004
• Nephropathies in malignancy in: evolutions of Internal Medicine, Athens 2006
• Bone and mineral disorders in in: evolutions of Internal Medicine, Athens 2011
• Renal osteodystrophy in Metabolic bone diseases, Athens 2007 and 2013
• Nephrolithiasis in Metabolic bone diseases, Athens 2007 and 2013

• Gerakis A, Kapasouri E, Hadjidimitriou G, Billis A. High prevalence of anti-HCV in renal patients determined by first and second generation assays and con-firmed by alternate methods. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1993;8:1307-1308.
• Gerakis A, Apostolou Th, Billis A.“Release of osteocalcin fragments in the se-rum of dialysed patients during desferrioxamine treatment. Nephron 1995; 71:124 (letter).
• Gerakis A, Apostolou Th, Bagiatoudi G, Tzouganatou A, Margellos B, Ni-kolopoulou N, Billis A.Serum procollagen type I carboxyterminal propeptide in CAPD and haemodialysis patients. Perit Dial Int 1996;16(Suppl 1): S309-S316.
• Α. Gerakis, A. J. Hutchison, Th. Apostolou, A. J. Freemont, A. Billis. Biochem-ical markers for non-invasive diagnosis of hyperparathyroid bone disease and ady-namic bone in patients on haemodialysis. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1996;11:2430-2438.
• Ahuja M, Goumenos D, Shortland JR, Gerakis A, Brown CB .Does immunosup-pression with prednisolone and azathioprine alter the progression of idiopathic membranous nephropathy? Am J Kidney Dis 1999;34:521-529.
• Gerakis A, Hadjidakis D, Kokkinakis E, Apostolou Th, Raptis SA, Billis A. Corre-lation of bone mineral density with the histological findings of renal osteodystrophy in patients on haemodialysis. J Nephrol 2000;13:437-443.