Stathis Konstantinidis

Biography

Dr Stathis Konstantinidis is an Associate Professor in e-Learning and Health informatics and a Deputy Digital Learning Director of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham, UK, and an active member of DICE research group and HELM team, which work spans a number of intertwining themes on Digital Innovations in healthCare and Education. In the past, he was a researcher (2012-2015) for more than two years at the Northern Research Institute (NORUT) based at Tromso, Norway. He was teaching at Technological Educational Institute of West Macedonia, Kozani, Greece (2006-2011) and he was a research associate at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for 6 years (2006-2012). He served as a member of the Global Healthcare Workforce Council (2015- 2016) and as OKFN ambassador in Norway (2013-2016), while his teaching experience in higher education and CPD spans across different countries including UK, Greece and Norway, and he served as the director of the MSc course Quality and Patient Safety in the University of Nottingham, UK. He had participated in many EU, interregional and national co-funded projects from different roles with the vast majority around the medical informatics education field. He served as the project coordinator of CoViRR, CEPEH and HEALTINT4ALL ERASMUS+ projects, CAMEI (FP7 - CSA) (www.camei-project.eu) and PI for University of Nottingham for TBDTHC, EPoCFiNDS and ReHIn ERASMUS+ project, while serves as Co-I in a range of projects including ACoRD (ERASMUS+), TransCoCon (ERASMUS+), CREATE(COT Royal College of Occupational Therapist), technical coordinator for mEducator(EU eContentPlus) and others. He has a great publication portfolio, while he has served as the co-chair of 4 International Conferences : 2nd, 4th and 5th Interantional Conference on Medical Education Informatics (MEI2015, MEI 2021, MEI 2024) and IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems(CBMS2017) and the CAMEI Summer School, among other special sessions organisations in multiple international conferences. He is an Associate editor of Health Informatics Journal. His research includes among other conversational agents, internet of things, virtual reality and artificial intelligence in education, collaborative e-learning, co-creation of OER, social media, content sharing, retrieval and repurposing, educational standards, virtual patients, web of data, semantic web, learning analytics, serious games, gamification and exergames.