Dimitrios Mantellos NEUROLOGIST

• 19/7/2005: PhD: “A study of the plasticity mechanisms of the vestibule-ocular reflex and the cervico-ocular reflex in humans” University of Ioannina, Medical School

• Hellenic Neurological Society

• January 1996 – July 1997: Military service, Hellenic Army. Primary health care service.
• September 1997 – September 1998: SHO (equiv.) Health Center of Delvinaki, Ioannina, Greece. Primary health care service.
• April 1999 – February 2000: SHO (equiv.) Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Arta, Greece. Trainee in Internal Medicine, in sub-speciality level, rotation in the wards, in the emergency medicine department and the outpatient clinic.
• February 2000 – February 2001: SHO (equiv.) Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece. Trainee in Psychiatry, in sub-speciality level, including rotation in the wards, emergency rooms, outpatient clinic.
• March 2002– December 2005: SpR (equiv.) Department of Neurology, Aeginition University Hospital of Athens, Greece. Trainee in Neurology, in sub-speciality level, including rotation in the wards, emergency rooms, outpatient clinic and Neurophysiology labs.
• March 2006-March 2007: Consultant, department of Neurology, Aeginition University Hospital of Athens, Greece.
• April 2007 – October 2011: Consultant, department of Neurology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• October 2011 – today: Consultant, MITERA and HYGEIA hospitals 

Education experience:

• Academic year 2001 – 2002: Undergraduate teaching for students of the School of Nursing, University of Athens (Physiology Lab)
• Academic years 2005 – 2006 and 2006-2007: Undergraduate teaching for Medical students, Neurology clinic, University of Athens (Aeginition Hospital)
• Academic years 2013 – 2014, 2014 – 2015 and 2015-2016: Undergraduate and internal medicine trainees teaching, 3rd Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Athens (Sotiria Hospital)

Clinical Interest: 

• Neurology
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Neuro-otology

Research Interest:

• Multiple Sclerosis
• Neuro-otology

• Eye position signals modify vestibulo- and cervico- ocular fast phases during passive yaw rotations in humans. D. Anastasopoulos, D. Mandellos, V. Kostadima, V.E. Pettorossi. Exp Brain Res. 2002; 145: 480-488
• Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) in a Greek family. D. Mandellos, G. Limbitaki, A. Papapdimitriou, D. Anastasopoulos. Neurol Sci. 2005; 26:278-281
• Positional nystagmus and vertigo due to a solitary brachium conjunctivum plaque. E. Anagnostou, D. Mandellos, G. Limbitaki, A. Papadimitriou and D. Anastasopoulos. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr. 2006;77(6):790-792
• Ocipital neuralgia as an isolated symptom of C2 myelitis. P. Nikakis, G. Koutsis, C. Potagas, D. Mandellos and C. Sfagos. Headache 2006;46(8):1304-1306 
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo with and without manifest positional nystagmus : An 18-month follow-up study of 70 patients. E. Anagnostou, D. Mandellos, A. Patelarou and D. Anastasopoulos. HNO. 2007 Mar;55(3): 190-4. German.
• APOE genotypes in Greek multiple sclerosis patients: no effect on the MS Severity Scale. Koutsis G, Panas M, Karadima G, Mandellos D, Sfagos C, Potagas C, Vassilopoulos D. J Neurol. 2007 Mar;254(3):394-5.
• Acute onset paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration. Bonakis A, Papageorgiou SG, Mandellos D, Galani E, Kalfakis N. J Neurooncol. 2007 Sep;84(3):329-30.
• Cognitive impairment in different MS subtypes and clinically isolated sysdromes. Potagas C, Giogkaraki E, Koutsis G, Mandellos D, Tsirempolou E, Sfagos C, Vassilopoulos D. J Neurol Sci. 2008 Apr 15;267(1-2):100-6.
• Relationship of CSF neurotransmitter metabolite levels to disease severity and disability in multiple sclerosis. Markianos M, Koutsis G, Evangelopoulos M-E, Mandellos D, Karahalios G, Sfagos K. J. Neurochem. 2009 Jan;108(1): 158-64
• Nomogram for determining lower limit of the sural responce. Kokotis P, Mandellos D, Papagianni A, Karandreas N. Clin Neurophysiol. 2010 Apr;121(4):561-3
• Serum and cerebrospinal fluid prolactin levels in male and female patients with clinically-isolated syndrome or relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Markianos M, Koutsis G, Evangelopoulos ME, Mandellos D, Sfagos C. J Neuroendocrinol. 2010 Jun;22(6);503-8
• The onset of multiple sclerosis in Greece: a single-center study of 1034 consecutive patients. Koutsis G, Evangelopoulos ME, Andreadou E, Mandellos D, Karachalios G, Potagas C, Karantoni E, Karouli M, Chrysovitsanou C, Vassilopoulos D, Sfagos C. Eur Neurol. 2010;63(6):350-6
• Plasma homocysteine levels in patients with multiple sclerosis in the Greek population. Kararizou E, Paraskevas G, Triantafyllou N, Koutsis G, Evangelopoulos ME, Mandellos D, Sfagos C, Kapaki E. J Chin Med Assoc. 2013 Nov;76(11):611-4