Evangelos I. Kritsotakis is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece, since 2019.Prior to this, he was tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the University of Sheffield, UK (2014-2018), where he maintains an honorary position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Population Health.
Dr. Kritsotakis first degree was in Mathematics (University of Crete, 1998) followed by a Master's degree in Statistics and Operational Research (University of Essex, UK, 2000). He underwent training in Applied Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA, 2005). He earned a PhD degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Crete in 2007.
Dr. Kritsotakis teaches introductory and advanced topics in Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Research Methodology in undergraduate programs in Medicine and postgraduate programs in Public Health and Surgical Sciences, and supervises Master's and Doctoral students doing applied and/or methodological research in these fields at the University of Crete. He also teaches the core module in Survival Data Analysis on the MSc in Biostatistics and Health Data Science, at the University of Athens.
Research interests of Dr. Kritsotakis focus on statistical and epidemiological principles and methods for designing, analyzing and reporting clinical and epidemiological studies in acute care hospitals and other healthcare settings. In acknowledgement of research contribution, he was awarded with the William Jarvis Award 2009 by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Dr. Kritsotakis’ current record of published research includes more than 60 articles in international journals, with more than 2,000 citations and H-index = 24 (i10 index = 36) in Google Scholar (as of December 2023). These publications comprise mainly collaborative applied and translational research, including prognostic factor studies, clinical prediction models, quasi-experimental and time series studies for public health intervention evaluations, population-based cohort studies, complex sample surveys, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, with special focus on healthcare-associated infections, multi-drug resistant pathogens and antimicrobial drugs.
Dr. Kritsotakis has achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, and the status of Chartered Statistician (CStat) of the Royal Statistical Society, UK. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal "Public Health" and on the Editorial Board of the sister journal "Public Health in Practice" (Royal Society of Public Health). He has guest edited special issues for the journals “Medicina” and “Antibiotics”. He is statistical reviewer for the Lancet journals and ad-hoc reviewer for several other high-impact medical journals, and was acknowledged as one of the top reviewers in 2020 for the journal "Clinical Microbiology and Infection" of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He is member of the ISCB Student Award Committee of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics. Dr. Kritsotakis has substantial experience as independent expert evaluator in large-scale national and international/EU research funding programs.
