Maria Makatounaki
Back to the centerMD, MSc Nephrologist
EDUCATION
- MSc "Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity", School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Master's Thesis: "Monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of autoimmune diabetes" - Doctor of Medicine (MD), Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Sofia (Bulgaria), 2012-2018
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- From March 2022 to February 2026 Residency in Nephrology, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki
- From December 2019 to December 2021 Residency in Internal Medicine, "Papanikolaou" General Hospital
- From September 2021 to December 2021 Clinical Observer, Outpatient Diabetes Clinic
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / LECTURES
- Discussant in the session "Glomerular Diseases II" with the presentation "Small vessel vasculitis in elderly patients: diagnosis and management" at the Hippocratic Days of Nephrology (March 2026)
- Speaker in the session "Clinical Cases I" with the case presentation "CNSI in a patient with MCD and IgAV" at the Acute Kidney Injury Meeting 2025 (October 2025)
- Speaker on "CKD and components of cardiometabolic risk" at the 2nd Panhellenic Congress of Metabolic and Chronic Diseases (June 2025)
- Speaker in the session "Monoclonal Gammopathies of Renal Significance" with a clinical case presentation at the 2nd Clinical Workshop on Kidney Histopathology (February 2025)
- Speaker in the session "Learning through clinical cases" with a clinical case presentation at the 2nd Educational Workshop "Learning interventional nephrology: training in vessel mapping" during the 1st Scientific Meeting of the Department of Nephrology, "Papanikolaou" General Hospital (April 2024)
CONFERENCE / SEMINAR ATTENDANCE
- 17th Annual Educational Seminar on Fluids, Electrolytes and Acid-Base Disorders (October 2025)
- 16th Annual Educational Seminar on Fluids, Electrolytes and Acid-Base Disorders (October 2024)
- 9th Symposium on Vasculitis (September 2023)
- 24th Panhellenic Congress of Nephrology (May 2023)
- 1st Congress of Interventional and Diagnostic Nephrology (March 2023)
- 23rd Panhellenic Congress of Nephrology (June 2022)
- 33rd Panhellenic Congress of the Hellenic Company for the Study and Education of Diabetes Mellitus (November 2019)
LANGUAGES / OTHER SKILLS
- Excellent command of English (IELTS 7.5)
- Good command of Swedish (B2 Level)