Dimitrios Zafeiriou is Professor of Child Neurology and Developmental Paediatrics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Professor Zafeiriou graduated from medical school in 1988 and undertook specialist training in paediatrics at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) University of Munich, Germany, achieving his certification in 1993. He achieved his doctoral degree in 1993 on the course and prognosis of epilepsy in children with cerebral palsy from the LMU University of Munich. Returning to Greece in 1993, Professor Zafeiriou took a position as a lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in1997, becoming an Assistant Professor in 2001 and a full Professor in 2012.
Professor Zafeiriou’s clinical and research interests include neurometabolic disorders, cerebral palsy, clinical neurophysiology, paediatric epileptology, neuromuscular disorders, neonatal neurology, paediatric stroke and autism. He has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications in the field of child neurology and is a member of numerous societies including the International Child Neurology Association, the European Paediatric Neurology Society, the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and the European Society of Paediatric Research. Professor Zafeiriou is a founding member and currently elected President of the Greek Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, past President of the Greek Association of Paediatric Neurology and Board Member of the European Paediatric Neurology Society.
Since 2013, Professor Zafeiriou is a Guest Professor at the Department of Paediatric Neurology and Behavioral Paediatrics, at Boston’s Children Hospital, Harvard University, USA.
