Professor Grigoris Stratakos, MD, PhD, FCCP, is Professor of Interventional Pulmonology and Head of the Interventional Pulmonology Unit at the 1st Department of Respiratory Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Sotiria” Hospital, Athens, Greece.
With extensive experience in interventional pulmonology, his clinical and research interests include interventional bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy, lung cancer diagnosis and management, central airway obstruction and stenosis, post-transplant airway complications, simulation-based training, and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction for emphysema.
Professor Stratakos served as President of the European Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (EABIP) from 2022 to 2025 and previously coordinated the Interventional Pulmonology Working Group of the Hellenic Thoracic Society. He is a certified interventional pulmonology trainer of the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (WABIP) and a faculty member of the European Respiratory Society’s EBUS and bEUS training project.
An experienced educator and international speaker, Professor Stratakos has organized numerous international training programmes and hands-on courses covering interventional pulmonology, lung cancer diagnosis, peripheral pulmonary lesions, central airway obstruction, and therapeutic bronchoscopy. He was President and organizer of the 6th European Congress for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (ECBIP), held in Athens in 2021, and has been invited to speak at more than 120 international symposia and congresses.
His scientific contributions include 90 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, more than 3,500 citations, an h-index of 28, and 14 contributions to scientific monographs.