Dr. Ioannis Arkadianos MD

Dr. Ioannis Arkadianos is the President and co-founder at the European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO).  

He graduated from Athens University Medical School. He is certified in General Medicine with extra Post Graduate studies in Obesity, Nutrition and Nutrigenomics.  

He holds the SCOPE Certification (Strategic Centre for Obesity Professional Education) from “World Obesity Federation” (WOF).  

He is a pioneer Medical Doctor of Lifestyle Medicine in Europe, having practiced in this field for the last 30 years and was the President of the Organizing Committee of the “1st European Lifestyle Medicine Congress” (Geneva 10-11 November 2018), the “2nd European Lifestyle Medicine Congress” (Rome 8-10 November 2019), the “3rd European Lifestyle Medicine Congress” (Virtual) 5-7 November 2021 and the “4th European Lifestyle Medicine Congress” (Athens 7-9 October 2022). 

Instructor in the Postgraduate Program of the University of Athens - Medical School (2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021 -2022 and 2022-2023) "Arterial hypertension and concomitant cardiovascular disease". 

Instructor in The European Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine organized by the European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO). 

Instructor in the Postgraduate Program of the University of Aegean – Department of Environment (2020-2021 and 2021-2022) " Nutrition, Well-being and Public Health " with the topic “Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine and its importance in health”

Lecturer in the University Certificate for Lifestyle Medicine, organized from the University of Ricardo Palma (Lima, Peru) / Catedra de Medicina Del Estilo De Vida and the Latin American Lifestyle Medicine Association of the academic year 2020 -2021 on the subject: "Obesity and Lifestyle Medicine".

 He is an active member of the: European Lifestyle Medicine Organization, Athens Medical Association,  Hellenic Medical Association for the study of Obesity, World Obesity Federation, European Association for the study of Obesity, American Society for Nutrition, Obesity Canada, , European Association of Preventive Cardiology and Founding member of the Mediterranean Lifestyle Medicine Institute. 

 He is also a Council Member of the True Health Initiative.

 He is elected President of the Disciplinary Board (2021-2022) in “Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity”.

 He has over 100 attendances at conferences dealing with Obesity, Lifestyle Medicine, Nutrition, Internal Medicine, diabetes, metabolic diseases, Lipids Disorders, hypertension, nutrigenomics, etc.

 He also has participations with speeches, oral presentations, posters, presidency and presentation co-ordination at many Greek and International scientific conferences.

 Member of the Organizing Committees of the Congresses of the “Hellenic Medical Association for the study of Obesity” (2014-2020)

 His medical practice is in Athens, Greece.