Magda Tsolaki
Professor
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece
Biography
Magda Tsolaki was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Medicine (1972-1978) and Theology (1981-1985) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). Afterwards, she initiated her collaboration with AUTh in 1982 as scientific collaborator and a year later received her specialty as a Neuropsychiatrist. She has been a Professor of Neurology since 2010, and currently she is the Head of the 1st University Department of Neurology (since 2017) where she is still committed to her clinical, educational and research work. In 2004, she was invited as a visiting professor at the Boston University, Massachusetts, USA. She has formed the Greek Alzheimer Association in 1995 and the Greek Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in 2007, in which she is up to today the Chair, while also being the scientific director of two Public Dementia Units (founded by her in 2007 and 2009) for outpatients. The last two years she was invited to join as a member the Greek National Observatory for Dementia. In a chair of Greek Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease, she has given more than 516 lectures throughout Greece. She has participated in more than 40 funded research programmes and 31 funded clinical trials. In total, she has received 66 awards. Dr. Tsolaki has been the main author of many Books (53), many abstracts in Greek (531) and International (466) Conferences, she is the first author or co-author in many Papers in Greek (285) and International Journals (451 - 316 in PubMed), (h-index=53, 55, 63 and more than 12146, 12513 and 18628 citations, in Web of Sciences, Scopus, Google Scholar respectively). She has participated as invited speaker in 90 meetings-confernces. Furthermore, she has been a reviewer for Conferences and Journals (330) and has organised 27 national and 5 international conferences on AD. Finally, she was one of the three or seven advisory members for 28 doctoral theses-completed. Her main scientific interest revolves mainly around Neurology, Memory and Dementia, and focused on Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and AD, care and management of services for older people, non-pharmaceutical interventions as a form of treatment for MCI and AD patients (such as music, computers, art, dancing, diet, etc.) along with her ever going clinical work with patients.
Research Interest
Neurology and Dementia