Dr Vitalis Panagiotis

Dr Panagiotis Vitalis was born in Athens in 1987, and today he is married and the father of one child. He holds a PhD in Clinical Exercise Physiology from the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom (UK), where he was visiting lecturer. In Greece, he is a visiting lecturer at the University of Thessaly in the postgraduate programme ”Clinical Exercise Physiologist” and a lecturer at the Mediterranean College. His research concerns the laboratory evaluation, application, and study of the effect of exercise and physical activity on cardiac and pulmonary physiology in patients with autoimmune rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases and in the general population. Specifically, his expertise evolves around how physical activity and exercise can improve both cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal systems through specific physiological mechanisms. As a researcher, he joined international research projects with multidisciplinary teams that consisted of leading academics in their fields. Some of these projects were funded by the European Union (EU) and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), the world’s leading organisation in rheumatology. The EULAR has presented results of his work, where he is now a member of the IMPACT-RMD consortium and part of the research team “Physical Activity, Exercise & Rehabilitation” in the community of Health Professionals (HPRs). Dr Panagiotis Vitalis is also a reviewer in international scientific journals and has a rounded and cutting-edge working experience in Physical Activity, Exercise & Health, having worked in world-class centres in both UK and Greece and Belarus.