Dr Georgios K. Dimitriadis
Consultant Endocrinologist and Bariatric Medicine Lead Physician
- Year Qualified
- 2005
- Qualifications
- MD (Hons), MRCP (Lon.), MSc (Hons), MAcadTM, SCOPE & EASO (UK National Fellow), PhD
- Specialty
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Special Interests
- Endocrinology
- Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasia
- Obesity
- Pituitary, adrenal and thyroid disease
- Reproductive endocrinology
- Reproductive Medicine, Endocrionology & Assisted Conception
Biography
Dr Georgios K Dimitriadis is a Consultant in Endocrinology and Obesity Medicine at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences at KCL. He was awarded an MSc on Reproductive Endocrinology from the University of Athens for his work on the “effects of testosterone replacement therapy on energy expenditure of hypogonadal men”. He was also awarded an MSc on Obesity and related comorbidities from Karolinska Institute for his work on the “effect of bariatric surgery on Natural Killer cell activity in adult humans”. His PhD thesis for the University of Warwick is on the “cardioprotective effects of medical and surgical interventions for the management of obesity”.
Georgios is the lead physician for Tier 4 ASO/EASO COM across King’s College Hospital, Princess Royal University Hospital and South Sites. His areas of research interest involve clinical and pre-clinical studies on medical, endoscopic and surgical interventions for the management of obesity and related disorders (prediabetes, PCOS, CVD, NAFLD/NASH). Georgios is an investigator in several landmark obesity and T2DM studies (SCALE, LEADER, EXSCEL, STEP-1, DUAL-VIII, SUSTAIN 6 &10, AMYLIN, SELECT, SOUL and others).
He has received several awards and scholarships from SfE-BES, UEMS, Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation and recently NIHR South London CRN Strategic “Green Shoots” Investigator award in recognition of his clinical research outcomes. Dr Dimitriadis has graduated the 3rd European Obesity Academy (Karolinska/J&J) and UK 1st Emerging Obesity Leaders Programme (NN/ASO). He is a SCOPE and EASO UK National Fellow and a member of the board of trustees for the Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO).