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Ο Vasilios Alevizos was born in Veligosti Megalopolis, Arcadia. He studied Medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in Neurology-Psychiatry at the Aeginite Hospital.
He retrained for two years at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of London with an IKY scholarship. He started his career at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Athens, at the Aeginite Hospital and accomplished a long clinical, organizational and research-writing project. He left in 2005 as an Associate Professor. Member of 12 Greek and 5 international scientific societies. He has published approximately 170 scientific papers in the international scientific press and approximately 160 in the Greek press. He has made approximately 120 announcements at international and more than 100 at Greek conferences. He has made more than 300 scientific lectures and presentations at various scientific events. His scientific work has been internationally recognized with approximately 700 references by foreign authors in the international bibliography.
He was a founding member and for 18 years a member of the Board of Directors. of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, one of the pioneers of the drafting and issuing of the National Prescription and its re-issues, for 10 years a member of the EOF Approvals Committee, member of the drafting committee of Law 2071/92 on involuntary hospitalization, organizer and co-organizer of scientific conferences and of seminars, member of examining committees for granting Psychiatry specialty, for 3 years president of the Disciplinary Council of the Hellenic Psychiatric Society, etc. He has contributed to the preparation of 31 doctoral theses. He has made interventions in the media on psychiatric and medico-social issues. He has written chapters in multi-authored books and has published a book entitled "Anxiety: Medical and Social Dimensions" (BETA Medical Publications, 2008, p. 522).

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