Dr. Charis Armeftis

Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Charis Armeftis
Respiratory Medicine Consultant


PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth: 14 July 1973
Place of birth: Limassol, Cyprus
Work address: 20 Nafpliou street, Nafplion Centre, 4th floor, 3025, Limassol, Cyprus
Contact details: T.: +357 25 747464, M.: +357 96 424741,
Email: armeftis@lung-centre.com
Civil status: Married with two children

MEDICAL EDUCATION

Present Position
Consultant in Respiratory Medicine-Director of The Lung Centre in Limassol- Cyprus.

Medical school
Degree in Medicine, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary -2000.

Pre-registration
September 2000 – March 2001: Limassol General Hospital.
Six months of internal medicine and six months of general surgery.

Specialty
2002-2003: Internal Medicine (Limassol General Hospital).
July 2004 – July 2007: Respiratory medicine (  University  Pulmonology Clinic of Athens Medical School- Thoracic Diseases Hospital “Sotiria”, Greece).
Onassis” Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece 1st Cardiology Clinic,
June 2007 -July 2007. July 2007 – January 2008: Intensive Care Medicine  (ICU, Athens University Medical School, “Evangelismos”, General Hospital of Athens, Greece).

Education
ALS course and PHTLS course
ALS Generic Instructor course.
2010 European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine
PhD candidate Medical University of Athens. 

Work
September 2008-June 2009: General Physician at Troodos Regional Hospital .

July 2009-March 2010:  Respiratory Medicine Consultant at Nicosia General Hospital.

March 2010-July 2010: Respiratory Medicine Consultant at Limassol General Hospital and Famagusta General Hospital. September 2010-July 2014: Private practice.


Teaching experience
Senior Lecturer at St George’s University of London Medical School – University of Nicosia, participating in the clinical placement training of Medical Students.

Participating in training of students of Department of Nursing of the Cyprus University of Technology.

Participation in Studies
Serum And Sputum Perforin Expression In Persistent Asthma: Athanasia Proklou Eirini Neofytou Sophia E Schiza Vasilios Tzilas Charis Armeftis Nikolaos Siafakas.

DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2010.181.1_MeetingAbstracts.A5616 Conference: American Thoracic Society 2010 International Conference, May 14-19, 2010.

Participation in congresses and seminars
European Respiratory Society, Annual Congress, Munich (Germany), September 2014.
23rd Hellenic Chest Diseases Congress, Athens (Greece), December 2014.
22nd Hellenic Chest Diseases Congress, Athens (Greece), December 2013.
European Respiratory Society, Annual Congress, Amsterdam, September 2011.
European Respiratory Society, Annual Congress, Barcelona (Spain), September 2010.
Seminar in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,  Eretria, Greece, 2006.
23 th  annual Pan-Hellenic Congress on Chest – Hellenic Thoracic Society, 2014.
9 th    State of the Art Interdisciplinary Review Course April 2005, Athens.
10 th  State of the Art Interdisciplinary Review Course April 2006, Athens.
11 th  State of the Art Interdisciplinary Review Course April 2007, Athens
16 th  Annual Pan-Hellenic Congress on Chest Diseases-Hellenic Thoracic Society Athens Greece, 2007.
15 th  annual Pan-Hellenic Congress on Chest Diseases-Hellenic Thoracic Society,
Herakion, Greece, 2006
14 th  Annual Pan-Hellenic Congress on Chest Diseases-Hellenic Thoracic Society, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2005.

Others details
Member of Cyprus Medical Association
Member of Cyprus Respiratory Society
Member of Hellenic Thoracic Society
Member of European Respiratory Society
Vice President of Cyprus Respiratory Society 2012-2014

Languages
Greek ,English