Ioanna Chouvarda - CV

Personal data

Name: Chouvarda Ioanna

Parents Name: Gregorios and Eleni Chouvarda

Title: Electrical Engineer, PhD Medical Informatics

Birthdate: 26 April 1969

Birthplace: Thessaloniki

Address: Agrafon 13, Sykies, 56626, Thessaloniki

Work: Lab of Medical Informatics, The Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Work Phone: (+30-2310) 999 247

Fax: (+30-2310) 999 263

Ε-mail: ioanna@med.auth.gr

Summary

Ioanna G. Chouvarda received the Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering (1993) and the Ph.D. (2002) in Medical Informatics all from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece.

Her Ph.D. thesis was primarily focused on analysis of cardiac signals by means of time-frequency methods, entitled: "Time-Cardiac System Time-Frequency Analysis in microscopic and macroscopic level".

Currently, she is Associate professor at the Lab of Medical Informatics, A.U.Th., having R&D and educational duties. She is involved in research projects, actual conduction of research and educational tasks, including the supervision of student projects.

In 2011, she has been elected as Lecturer in Medical Informatics, AUTH and was officially appointed in this position in April 2013. In May 2015, she became assistant professor in medical informatics. In 2020 she was elected as associate professor.

In the FP7 EU founded research project HeartCycle, she was technical manager and active researcher of various tasks. Up to date, she has been involved in numerous R&D projects in the e-health sector, and several basic research studies and cooperations, and has been a co-author in a series of project deliverables.

In the FP7 EU founded research project WELCOME, she is workpackage leader in the sustem design (WP3) and active researcher of various tasks., and later undertook the scientific coordination.

In the DGSANCO EU founded research project ACT, she is technical manager of AUTH work in WP3 and active researcher of various tasks.

In H2020 she is involved in a series of projects (AEGLE, PATHWAY, INLIFE) in CERTH.

She was principal investigator at CHESS marie curie ITN, national project Milord (milord.med.auth.gr), and H2020 project Incisive (https://incisive-project.eu/about/).

Up to date, she has been involved in numerous R&D projects in the e-health sector, and several basic research studies and cooperations, and has been a co-author in a series of project deliverables.

Her past educational experience includes part-time lecturing at the M.Sc. Program in Medical Informatics of A.U.Th. and M.Sc Program in Medicine, at the graduate Medical Informatics course of the Medical School. She has been a Lecturer at the Department of Informatics of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, for two years. For the academic year 2004-5 and 2007-8, she also held a Visiting Lecturer position in the Medical School, A.U.Th.

As part of her current tasks in AUTH, she is the main educator in a series of of undergraduate and postgraduate Medical Informatics courses.

Her research interests involve biomedical and bioinformatics signal processing, cardiac modelling, ehealth and telemedicine applications, medical information management systems. In her postdoc research, she has close cooperation with medical clinics and institutes.

Dr. Ioanna Chouvarda is Member of the IEEE (EMBS and WIE) and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Education

• Electrical and Computer engineering, Polytechnic School (5yrs), AUTH, 1987-93

• PhD in Medical Informatics, AUTH, 1997 -2001 (defended Nov 2001)

Postgraduate education

• “Education of new researchers in Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering”., Medical School, AUTH. (Autumn 1993)

• Training at Vision Research Dept, Aston University, Birmingham, UK (Spring 1994) - EEG recording and processing

• Summer School of Chaos and Non_linear Systems , Patras GR (Summer 1996)

• «Cardiac Electrophysiology », AMC, Amsterdam NL and «Medical Informatics», Erasmus Univ, Roterdam NL (Oct 99)

• Summer School of Biomedical Eng, Patras, GR, (Summer 2002)

• Summer School, Emerging Biomedical Signal Processing Techniques, Siena, IT (summer 2003)

• Summer School, Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, Patras, (summer 2004)

• Summer School, Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, Patras, (summer 2006)

• Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, Patras, (4th International Summer School on Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, summer 2008)

• 5th IgCLL Educational Workshop on Immunoglobulin Sequence Analysis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Brno, 26-27 Sept 2013

• Cost Action Charme summer school: Big data analysis of metagenomes and microbiomes, Istanbul Sept 2019

Languages:

English, French

Scholarships

1983 Greek Math Organisation

1987 AUTH.

Current and former positions

Research

• 1994 – 1995: Researcher in Physiology Lab, AUTH and BIOTRAST Co, brain image processing, software development in C.

• 1996 – 1999: scientific software development in Imaging Arts Co (C, C++ and Java).

• 1995-2001: R&D in the Lab of Medical Informatics, research projects, development of medical applications, web applications, and medical information analysis applications (C/C++, SQL, HTML/ASP, Matlab)

• 2002-today: staff in The Medical School. Coordination of the Medical Informatics Postgraduate Course.

• 2002-today: senior researcher, Lab of Medical Informatics, AUTH

• Cooperation with the Informatics and Telematics Institute (I.T.I.), Center for Research and Technology, Hellas (CE.R.T.H.) in various research projects

• PostDoc at Politecnico di Milano, BME Dept, Nov 2009-May 2010

• 2019 (3 months) visiting researcher at VTT, Tampere, Finland

• today: Close research collaboration with members of the Cardiology Clinic, AHEPA University Hospital, A.U.Th, Ophthalmology Clinic, Papageorgiou Hospital and CERTH Institute, ICU clinic at DUTH, Sleep Disorders Center of Parma and Politecnico di Milano, Italy .

Teaching

• 2011-today

  • undergraduate courses in Medical Informatics at the Medical School, AUTH

  • graduate courses in Biodata Management, Scientific Programming, Biomedical Signal Processing and Modelling

• 2004-5 and 2008: invited lecturer in Medical Informatics, AUTH

• 2002 – 2011: Coordination Associate of the 2nd year course "Simulation of Biological Systems ", of the M.Sc. Program in Medical Informatics, A.U.Th.

• 2002 – 2011: Coordination of the 1nd year course "Medical Records and Databases", of the M.Sc. Program in Medical Informatics, A.U.Th.

• 2000 – 2005: Associate Lecturer in the 1st year course "Signal Processing" of the M.Sc. Program in Medical Informatics, A.U.Th.

• 2005 – today: Teaching Assistant in the 1st year course "Medical Informatics" of the M.Sc. Program in Medical Research Technology, A.U.Th.

• 2004 – 2006: Professor in the Department of Informatics, Technological & Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, "Signal and Image Processing"

• Associate Laboratory Lecturer in the graduate program of Medical Informatics, AUTH.

Research interests

• Medical Signal Analysis and Processing

• Cardiac Modeling

• Applications in Medicine and Bioinformatics

• Pervasive Healthcare

• Healthgrids and Biomedical Semantic Grids

• eHealth and Telemedicine Systems

• Bioinformatics

• Decision Support Systems

• Biomedical Knowledge Modeling and Sharing

Main Research Projects Involvement

(before H2020)

1.FP7 – 216695 –HeartCycle - Compliance and effectiveness in HF and CHD closed-loop management, 2008- Senior researcher

2.FP7 – 216130 - PSIP - Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in Medication, deals with Adverse Drug Events (ADE). Senior researcher

3.IST-1-507674-IP AIDE - Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle InterfacE 10/2005-12/2005

4.eSafety: PReVENTive and Active Safety Applications PReVENT 11/2006-12/2006

5.(greek project ΠΥΘΑΓΟΡΑΣ ΙΙ, Γ΄ΚΠΣ) «Glaucoma phenotype study and the use of laser iamging technologies in early diagnosis and phenotypic classification». 9/2005 - 4/2006 . post-doc research

6.IST – 2003 – 507231 :SENSATION ‘ADVANCED SENSOR DEVELOPMENT FOR ATTENTION, STRESS, VIGILANCE & SLEEP/WAKEFULNESS MONITORING ’, IST – 2003 – 507231, post-doc research in biomedical signal analysis, 12/2003 – 12/2007.

7.IST- 2001 – 33369 : ‘Citizen Centered Health and Lifestyle Management via Interactive TV : The PANACEIA Health System (PANACEIA-ITV)’, project IST-2001-33369, R&D, 8/2001 – 1/2004.

8.IST – 1999 - 13352 : ‘Distance Information Technologies for Home Care : The Citizen Health System (CHS)’, R&D, 1/2000 – 12/2002.

older projects

9. EU/US COLLABORATION - CPT-CPTUSA-U4014 Project ‘Local Health Policies and International Telemedicine Applications (ASCLEPIOS)’, CPT-CPTUSA-U4014 - EU , R&D, 10/2000-9/2002.

10. (ΕΠΕΑΕΚ - ΠΡΟΜΕΣΙΠ & ΕΠΕΑΕΚ - ΠΡΟΜΕΣΙ) : Postgraduate studies in medicine and medical informatics, R&D, 1/1998-12/2000.

11. (greek) ΕΠΕΑΕΚ - ΚΕΔΙΠ : ‘Medical Information management Center ’, R&D, 1/1998-12/2000.

12. ΗΕΑLTΗ TΕLΕΜΑTΙCS : R&D in Ι4C 1/1996-6/1999.

13. ΗΕΑLTΗ TΕLΕΜΑTΙCS : R&D in I4C-TRIPLE C 7/1998-6/2000.

14. ΕΠΕT ΙΙ - ΙΗΙS, R&D 1/1995-6/1998.

Besides R&D and coordination in projects, Ms Chouvarda has participated in the setup of numerous project proposals.

Technical Activities

• Co-editor of the book Biological and Medical Data Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4345, 2006, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

• Co-author of the HealthGrid Whitepaper, available at: http://whitepaper.healthgrid.org/

• International OPENECG contest (in cooperation with A. Kokkinaki) for the implementation of SCP-ECG protocol (4th in rank).

• Peer-reviewer in publications of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) since 2004, and in IEEE Potentials, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier Ed) , Physiological measurement (IOP press)

• Peer-reviewer in the 7th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis (ISBMDA2006) , in the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC2007 -08 -09 -10, 11), ITAB09, WC2009-World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, etc.

• Member of the Organising committee of Computers in Cardiology, 2003, Thessaloniki

• Steering Committee Member in the 7th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis (ISBMDA2006), December 7-8, 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece

• Organizing Committee Member in the 4th Personalized Health Conference (pHealth2007), June 20-22, 2007, Porto Carras, Chalkidiki, Greece, and MEDICON 2010, May 2010, ITAB 2009, phealth2016 in Crete

• Chairwoman in ISBMDA2006, pHealth2007, Computers In Cardiology 2008, Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, 2008

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and in particular member of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Computer Society and the (WIE) Women in Engineering Society. Board member in 2020-21

• Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 1993

Scientific Publications

PhD Dissertation . Ioanna Chouvarda “Analysis of the cardiac system in macroscopic and microscopic level”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2001

more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed Journals

18 publications in book chapters

more than 160 publications in international conferences

1 scientific volume edition

Up to now, Dr Chouvarda’s published work has been been well cited .