The hellenic Medical society of New York

executive Board

Dr. Nicholas H. E. Mezitispresident

Dr. George Liakeas1st Vice-presidentDr. Stella Lymberis

2nd Vice-presidentDr. John Stathopoulos

secretaryDr. Elias Sanidasasst. secretary

Dr. Demetrios KaridesTreasurer

Dr. Gerasimos Petratosasst. Treasurer

Dr. Alexander Sotiropoulosscholarships

Dr. George Tsioulias(ex officio)

Dr. George Dangas(ex officio)

April 2013

Dear Colleagues

Happy Easter to you and your families and friends.

The advent of spring marks the close of a busy winter periodand new beginnings for our Society.

Many of you celebrated Tsiknopempti with us in traditionalGreek fashion, while others attended the Greek National Holi-day pageant at St. Demetrios High School in Astoria, whosescience program we now mentor. In March, we were also hon-ored to host the President of the Athens Medical Association, Dr. George Patoulis, for three days of community presentationsand meetings with our Executive Board and other Hellenic-American professional society representatives, during which aformal fraternal association ( ) was proposedfor our two organizations. On April 8, our Society was ap-plauded as we marched up Fifth Avenue in the Greek paradeand 2 weeks later we greeted our 2013 Distinguished FemalePhysician honoree, Dr. Artemis Simopoulos, at the annual Dr.Mary Kalopothakes Award Symposium at Lenox Hill Hospital North Shore LIJ.

Work continues on improving our website, our Physician Refer-ral Network and our electronic communications outreach. Ourevents are featured regularly on Facebook, YouTube and theMGTV-USA website, even as we are planning our presence onTV, in the knowledge that community education is an integralpart of our mission.

In May, you will have the opportunity to be part of history at the2013 George N. Papanicolaou Award Symposium. Dr. JohnZervoudakis will be this years honoree with a select group ofspeakers. Following presentations, a special celebration willformally introduce our fraternal relationship with the AthensMedical Association. President Dr. George Patoulis as well as

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other Association members and distinguished guests fromGreece will be in attendance.

As always, assistance to Greece in its hour of need is para-mount in our considerations. Our relationship with the AthensMedical Association will permit coordination of our members ef-forts to support healthcare needs in Greece. Collaboration withthe Federation of Hellenic Medical Societies of North Americahas enhanced our ability to be of counsel to national Hellenic-American associations such as the AHEPA and the Panarca-dian Association, with a presence in tertiary care in Greece,through their hospitals. Cross-cultural cooperation with the BnaiZion Foundation, which will honor our member Dr. DimitriosKostopoulos with its 2013 Humanitarian Award on May 9, willbenefit the programs of the Hellenic Relief Foundation feedingthe needy in Greece.

Much more remains to be done in our Administration, as we ad-dress scholarships, finances and other issues of relevance toour members in a period of major changes in the practice ofmedicine. Each and every one of you is our ambassador to theprofession and all should be members of our Society for trulyin unity there is strength.

Be well. Be strong. Be together. .

Nicholas H.E. Mezitis, M.D.President

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specialty areas

FinanceDr. George Liakeas (E)

Dr. Demetrios Karides (E)Dr. Dimitrios Kostopoulos

Dr. George YatrakisDr. Andreas CosmatosDr. Andreas Koutras

MembershipDr. Panagiota Andreopoulou

Dr. Dean Pappas

eventsDr. Stella Lymberis (E)Ms. Roula Lambrakis

Dr. Nicholas Mezitis (E)

information TechnologyDr. Elias Sanidas (E)

Dr. Dimitrios KostopoulosDr. Gerasimos Petratos (E)

education &community outreach

Dr. John Stathopoulos (E)Dr. Andreas Cosmatos

Dr. James Melis

real estate Dr. George Yatrakis

Dr. Demetrios KaridisDr. Spyros Mezitis

Dr. George Liakeas (E)

scholarships Grants / awards

Dr. Alexander Sotiropoulos

Media / News BulletinDr. Stella Lymberis (E)Dr. Nicholas Mezitis (E)

legalDr. George Tsioulias (E)Mr. Steven AteshoglouMr. George Zapantis

BylawsDr. Marinos Petratos

Dr. George Dangas (E)

professional representation

Dr. George Tsioulias (E)Dr. Frixos Goussis

Dr. Demetrios MarkouizosDr. George Dangas (E)Dr. Despina Komninou

Dr. Spyros MezitisDr. Alexander Sotiropoulos

advisors to the presidentDr. Marinos PetratosDr. Antoine Harovas

Dr. Artemis Simopoulos

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DONATIONS TO THE YOUTH

OF GREECE AND TO OUR HELLENIC-

AMERICAN YOUTH

The daughters of Dr apostolos Tambakis,past president andbenefactor of the hel-lenic Medical society ofNew York , donated$25,000 to our societyin honor of their father.The donation was di-rected for the purchase ofcomputer hardware andsupport services for thepupils in the school of As-prochoma, Messiniaswhere Dr. Tambakis at-tended class in his youth.Dr. Tambakis has also di-rected funds from a majorfoundation honoring him,to our Society in supportof our initiative of mentor-ship of the Science pro-gram at St. DemetriosHigh School in Astoria,Queens.

Such contributions andthe initiatives of the Hel-lenic Medical Society ofNew York set an examplefor the Omogenia in ad-dressing issues con-fronting our youth in theUnited States and inGreece.

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Mary Kalopothakes was born inAthens in 1859, the daughter of Michael D. Kalopothakes a medical doctor from Athens,Greece, and of Martha HooperBlackler from Marblehead,Massachussetts, USA. Shestudied at Greek and Americanschools and graduated from theHarvard Annex (now RadcliffeCollege). She wanted to studymedicine. However, because ofthe difficulties posed due to the

fact that she was a woman in the Greek University, she com-menced her studies in Paris, France on October 1886. She re-turned to Athens in 1894 and passed the oral and writtenexams and began practicing the specialties of Pediatrics andGynecology.

The pioneering female physician was an active member of theUnion of Greek Women which was mobilized at the onset of theGreco-Turkish War of 1897. She worked as a Director and asurgeon of the Hospital of the Red Cross in Volos. She wasrecognized by Queen Olga for her daily training and seminarsto prepare nurses to serve on the front. At the end of the war of1897 the Greek women were also recognized by FlorenceNightingale, the English nurse who made outstanding contribu-tions to the knowledge and improvement of public health.Mary Kalopothakes opened a clinic for women and children andtrained nurses focusing on public health and the prevention oftuberculosis while always working fulltime as a pediatrician.In 1909 she published a report on public health in Greece out-lining rates of infant mortality, hygiene and tuberculosis in thebook "The Health of the Nations". She continued her effortspublishing the book "Elements of Hygiene for Schools" in 1912and editing the "Hygeia" (Health) magazine.

During the Balkan War of 1912 she served in Arta at the Hospi-tal of the Red Cross. In the two wars in which she took part, hercontribution as a surgeon was legendary, demonstrating unpar-alleled dedication, unwavering courage and heroism.A modest, charitable humanitarian, she attended to poor pa-

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Distinguished pediatrician - surgeon.

Past President and faithful member of the

Hellenic Medical Society of New York.

Daughter of HMS NY Founder

Dr. Polyvios Coryllos.Established a scholar-

ship fund with our Society in honor

of her father. Presented on 'Tongue-Tie Revisited. Its Diag-nosis and Management.Impact on Breastfeed-ing and on the Dyad's

Emotional and PhysicalWell-Being.' at the FirstWorld Hellenic MedicalNetwork Conference in

Kos 2007.

***Athanassios

(Tom) VoudourisBeloved father

of our distinguished colleague, specialist inHematology-Oncology,former member of theExecutive Board of the

HMS NY, Dr. DialektiVoudouris.

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Andrew AthensPast President of theWorld Council of Hel-

lenes Abroad and friendof the Hellenic MedicalSociety of New York.

tients as well as to refugees of the Asia Minor Catastrophewithout seeking payment. She found courage in her faith prac-ticing medicine with a selfless dedication. A daughter of thefounder of the Greek Evangelical Church,she wrote manyhymns. She also wrote in the "Ephemeris ton Paidon" (Childs'paper) and the "Astir tis Anatolis" (the Star of the East) newspa-pers that her father edited. She died in January 1941 while theGreek troops enjoyed victories at the Albanian front.

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Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. isthe Founder and President ofthe Center for Genetics, Nutri-tion and Health, a nonprofit edu-cational organization inWashington, D.C. since 1990. Agraduate of Barnard College,Columbia University, with amajor in Chemistry, and a grad-uate of the Boston UniversitySchool of Medicine, she is aphysician and endocrinologist

whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wason the nutritional aspects of genetic and endocrine disorders;evolutionary aspects of diet and fatty acids; and the importanceof a balanced ratio of omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids in healthand disease and in growth and development.

She is the author of The Omega Diet (HarperCollins, 1999) andhas edited over 50 books and journal supplements in additionto publishing over 350 scientific papers. She has been the edi-tor of the Karger series World Review of Nutrition and Dieteticsfrom 1989 to 2011. Volume 102 in the series is on Healthy Agri-culture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People.

Dr. Simopoulos was Executive Secretary of the Division onMedical Sciences at the National Research Council, NationalAcademy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. from 1972 to 1977and Project Director for the pioneering book Genetic Screening:Programs, Principles and Research published in 1975 by theNational Academy of Sciences-National Research Council.This was the first book that analyzed in depth the scientific,legal, ethical, economic and public policy aspects of genetic

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and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Pol-icy, Executive Office of The President, The White House,and a member of its successor, the Interagency Commit-tee for Human Nutrition Research from 1983-1986.Dr. Simopoulos was a Founding Member of the Interna-tional Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids(ISSFAL) in 1991, Secretary/Treasurer of ISSFAL from1991 to 1998, and a member of the Editorial Board of the

ISSFAL Newsletter from 1994 to 2000. She is theFounder of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/ Nu-trigenomics (ISNN), was Past President from 2005-2009and Founder and Chair of the World Council on Genetics,Nutrition, and Fitness for Health (WCGNFH) since 2005.

Dr. Simopoulos is the recipient of numerous honors andawards, including the first Presidential Award for Studies inthe Field of Obesity and Weight Control (Columbia Univer-sity, USA); the 1991 Boston University School of MedicineDistinguished Alumna Award (USA); and the 1998 GopalanOration Award (India); the 1999 Geoffrey H. Bourne Lec-ture at Saint Georges University in Grenada ,British WestIndies; the 2003 Michael J. Hill Memorial Lecture in Lon-don, U.K.; and the 2010 Dr. Demetrios Flessas Lecture atthe Hellenic American Medical Society of New York City,NY. In 2008 she was 1 of 9 selected women in the U.S.recognized by the Education Update in their March issueWomen Shaping History.

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