Niki Katsiki, MSc, PhD, MD, FRSPH is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Diabetes and Lipids and an Assistant Professor in the International Hellenic University. Her PhD was based on obesity-related peptides in patients with type 2 diabetes. Dr. Katsiki’s clinical and research interests involve cardiometabolic diseases, including dyslipidemia, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hyperuricemia and diabetes prevention and treatment. She has participated in obesity, lipid, diabetes, and peripheral artery disease outpatient clinics, as well as Phase III multicenter, randomized clinical trials with PCSK9 inhibitors. Dr Katsiki has given talks and lectures in several international conferences (in Greece, UK, Austria, Serbia, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey) and participated in Expert Panel meetings, guidelines publications and clinical trials. She has also been involved in teaching medical students, trainees as well as postgraduate students in different countries. Furthermore, she was an examiner for 2 theses in the University of Cordoba, Spain.
Dr Katsiki was an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital campus, University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL), UK. She was awarded an educational grant from the Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society and the Northern Greece Diabetes Association. Some of her clinical studies have been awarded by the Northern Greece Diabetes Association. Dr Katsiki is also a SCOPE member of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) and a member of the Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). She is currently a member of the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP), the Executive Board of the Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society (HAS), the IAS Regional Federation: Europe Executive Board and an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Medical School of the European University of Cyprus. Furthermore, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.
Dr Katsiki serves as a reviewer for several journals and she is currently Associate Editor of Angiology, Journal of Diabetes and its Complication and Diabetes Cardiovascular Complication, Section Editor of Archives of Medical Science as well as Book Review Editor and News and Views Editor of Current Vascular Pharmacology. She is also an Editorial Board Member in Metabolism Clinical and Experimental and Current Medical Research and Opinion.
Dr Katsiki has contributed chapters in national and international medical books on cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She has 403 papers published in PubMed and >7,000 citations on the ISI, Core Collection (H-index = 44).