An Online Event

 

Education & preventive measures to avoid severe accidents in children and adolescents

 

Anastassios Hatzis

Pediatric Intensivist
Former PICU Director “Agia Sofia” Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

 

When: Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 18:00 – 19:00 (EET-Athens)

 

Organized by: Institute of Public Health – The American College of Greece

 

The lecture will be held in Greek.

You can watch it here.

 

Information: +30 210 331 4755

You can watch the videos of previous lectures here.

 

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Speaker’s bio

Dr. Anastassios Hatzis is a Pediatric Intensivist. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens and specialized in Pediatrics and Intensive Care Medicine in various hospitals of Greece as well as in other countries (mainly France but also U.K. and U.S.A.).

He served for almost forty (40) years as Director of PICUs at the three Children’s Hospitals of Athens, the majority of which in the Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital as well as in two private Pediatric Hospitals in Athens.

Dr. Hatzis, throughout his medical service, realized that accidents are the most serious issue of Public Health and treatment has a limited effect, since both mortality and sequelae have an extremely high incidence.

He strongly believes that education and prevention measures are the only effective tools to undoubtedly protect children from all kind of accidents. Given that, from the beginning of his carrier, he has been oriented towards and dedicated to the education of both adults and children, in order to reduce pediatric accidents in Greece.

Dr. Anastassios Hatzis has been giving lectures in various places (schools, congresses, seminars etc.) either in Athens or in other cities of Greece, in an attempt to sensitize parents, physicians and teachers.