13 Facts About Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Dimitrios Trichopoulos, was a Mediterranean Diet expert and tobacco harms researcher.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos was Vincent L Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, and a past chair of the Department of Epidemiology, in the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos was first in 1981, along with an independent paper published a few days later, to report that secondhand smoke increases the risk of lung cancer.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos studied 51 nonsmoking women in Greece who had been hospitalized with lung cancer, then he compared them with age-matched women who had been hospitalized for other problems.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos was a Member of the Athens Academy and president of the Hellenic Health Foundation in Greece.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos held teaching appointments at the University of Athens Medical School and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos is survived by his wife Antonia Trichopoulou, with whom he co-published.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos was born in Volos, Greece, about 326 kilometres north of Athens.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos studied Medicine at the University of Athens Medical School.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos further studied Pathology, Microbiology, Public Health, and Epidemiology at universities of Athens, London, Oxford, and Harvard.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos had studied the multi-factorial etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma, with emphasis on the interactive effects of hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses, tobacco smoking, and ethanol intake.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos co-chaired for Oldways in 1993 their first International Conference on the Diets of the Mediterranean, the Conference where the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid was introduced.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos, as interviewed by current HSPH colleague and Chair of Epidemiology.