EVANGELIA KOUIDI

Biography

EVANGELIA KOUIDI
Dr. Evangelia Kouidi is a Cardiologist, exercise physiologist, and Professor of Sports Medicine in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. She is also the Director of the Laboratory of Sports Medicine in School of Physical Education and Sports Science of AUTh, Greece. She is the supervisor of the exercise rehabilitation programs of the Laboratory for renal, cardiac patients, and patients with other chronic diseases. She has memorable research experience on the effects of exercise training on cardiac morphology and function and skeletal muscle atrophy. She is a member of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) and the European Association of Rehabilitation in Chronic Kidney Disease (EURORECKD) and the Vice-President from 2016. She participates in three EU projects about the development and implementation of a model promoting exercise training and behavioral change in patients with CHD, stroke and CKD. She also participates in an EU COST Action (DE-PASS: DEterminants of Physical Activity BehaviourS in Settings), which has a focus on identifying, understanding and measuring the determinants which promote, maintain or inhibit Physical Activity Behaviours across the lifespan and in different settings. She has successfully supervised to completion 55 research MSc and 12 PhD students, 36 of them as the Principal Supervisor on the effects of exercise training in patients with chronic diseases. She has been awarded seven times by the European Renal Association for her research and three times by FIMS and other medical Associations. Moreover, she has received an award for “Excellence and innovation” in Sports Sciences from AUTh, Greece, in 2020 and 2021. She has 123 manuscripts in Scopus with 4275 citations and h-index: 34.