Effrossyni Gkrania - Klotsas

Experience

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  Albert Einstein Medical Centre

  Jun 1999 - Jul 2002

  Internal Medicine Resident

  I received a nothing-less-than-excellent medical residency training in Einstein, due to both the quality of the hands-on teaching by people like Dr Glenn Eiger as well as the opportunities of peer training, as Einstein was always open to very high quality international medical graduates as their residency cohort. The personal success of Einstein graduates tells that story. I particularly benefited from the intensive care units based training and the extensive exposure to cardiology.

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  UChicago Medicine

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  Infectious Diseases Fellow

  I received high quality clinical training and really cherished my time at the UofC where I was exposed to a vast array of different infectious diseases problems, including global health and travel medicine. I was also given the opportunity to do a Master's in Public Health at the same time.

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  Geosentinel CDC project

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2014

  Cambridge Director

  I led the first Geosentinel UK centre and I have actively and extensively contributed to both the Geosentinel and the EuroTravNet project.

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  Department of infectious diseases, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals

  Oct 2008 - Jul 2016

  Clinical Lead

  I led a busy clinical department which has major responsibility for service provision for HIV, infectious diseases, travel & tropical medicine, sepsis, community and hospital acquired infections on an inpatient, outpatient and consult basis. The department has a virtual catchment area of over 5 million people. In this role, I doubled the department's manpower, I initiated and saw through three transformative projects that have so far saved more than ten thousand inpatient days and more than a million £ for our hospital (outpatient antibiotic service, the HIV EOE Network and the infectious diseases transplant service). I have also managed change extensively. I have stepped down from this role in August 2016 to take on the new role of the head for transplant and immunodeficiency infections. In this role, I am creating the first service of its kind in the UK. Show less

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  Medical Research Council

  Jan 2009 - Apr 2012

  Fellow

  I was awarded a special MRC Populations Fellowship in 2009. Since finishing my PhD, I have been working in the MRC Unit of Epidemiology, focusing on the association between chronic herpes infections and mortality.

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  University of Cambridge

  Apr 2013 - now

  I am actively involved in medical, epidemiology and public health teaching. Among other activities, In January 2016 I taught the Epidemiology module of the Harvard-Teikyo Course at the Teikyo School of Public Health, in Tokyo, Japan. In August 2016, I took on the role of the head for transplant and immunodeficiency infections. In this role, I am creating the first service of the kind in the UK. I am privileged to teach in the university in various roles and positions but arguably none is more responsible than helping shape the future physicians.

  • Affiliated Associate Professor

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Bye Fellow

    Jul 2015 - now

  • Consultant in Infectious Diseases

    Jan 2005 - now

  • Associate Lecturer

    Apr 2013 - Oct 2022
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  University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education

  Sept 2013 - Sept 2014

  Certificate of Medical Education (at MSc level)

  I was lucky to be supported by Health Education England to acquire new skills in medical education that I am putting in good use now. I was recently (11/2016) awarded an Excellence in Teaching award by the students of the clinical school society, that I feel particularly proud of. In my role, I actively participate in medical education and I am proud to have seen ten students already through their SSC and Master's thesis projects.

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  Teikyo University of Japan

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

  Visiting Professor

  I am a passionate servant of modern medical education methodology in the UK and abroad. I had the opportunity to put my new knowledge in good use recently, when I was invited to teach the 2016 Epidemiology module of the Harvard-Teikyo Course (http://www.med.teikyo-u.ac.jp/~tsph/150817-final_2016_Teikyo-Harvard_en.pdf) at the Teikyo School of Public Health, in Tokyo, Japan.Teikyo University invites five professors every January from world-renowned universities such as Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and Durham to provide us intensive courses since 2012, followed by the establishment of Graduate School of Public Health. The courses are designed to serve as a part of competency-based education which Teikyo SPH embraces as a methodology, and cover five core areas required by the Council of Education for Public Health: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy and Management, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.The teaching style is very interactive, including many discussions in a small group. Past sessions had approximately hundred participants a year. In addition to domestic participant, students from all over the world including the United States, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, as well as African and Caribbean countries, made a contribution to giving a global atmosphere to classroom. Show less

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  NHS England

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2018

  Clinical Reference Group representative for Infectious Diseases, Midlands and East of England

  This Clinical Reference Group (CRG) covers infectious disease services for NHS England. In this role, I also represent infectious diseases in the NIHR cross-cutting committee.

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  International Society of Travel Medicine ISTM

  Nov 2016 - Feb 2019

  Continuing Professional Development Committee

  -Design the new ISTM Travel Medicine Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program-Oversee the implementation of the new CPD Program and the CTH® credential -Liaise with other appropriate groups and organizations internationally

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  UK Department of Health

  Jan 2017 - Mar 2019

  Member of the Advisory Committee for Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP)
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  Health Education England

  Jan 2017 - May 2019

  Training Programme Director, Infectious Diseases
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  NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research)

  Sept 2022 - now

  • National Specialty Lead, Infectious Diseases

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Clinical Director, Research Delivery Network , East of England

    Sept 2022 - now
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  ESCMID - European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

  Apr 2024 - now

  Member of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Subcommittee