Short Biography

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 five European Lifestyle Medicine Congresses organized by ELMO (2018-2023)
He is Faculty Lecturer in Post Graduate program of 3 Greek Universities (Medical School of Athens University, Thessaly University and University of Aegean) and has lectured to students at universities abroad as an invited speaker. He is instructor in the “European Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine : Health and Fitness Lifestyle Advisor” organized by the European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO).
He is a Faculty Lecturer in the International MSc in Lifestyle Medicine, from Thessaly University (Greece). The MSc comes from 3 University Departments (the Department of Medicine, the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, and the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics) and auspices from the European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO)
From April 2015 he is a Council Member of the “True Health Initiative”, a global coalition of experts from over 50 countries, united to combat misinformation and disinformation that impact public, personal, and planetary health.
He has participated as speaker and also chairing and coordinating presentations in many international and Greek scientific Congresses.
His medical practice is in Athens, Greece.

Workshop Title: Obesity Treatment through Lifestyle Interventions
- the first visit of a patient with obesity: diagnostic steps
- the lifestyle interventions proposed
- interesting clinical cases from my practice to discuss

Short description of the Workshop (WGD4):

Obesity is undoubtedly a lifestyle related disease and is a serious problem in our time which is reaching epidemic proportions.
The long - more than 30 years - clinical experience in obese patients of Dr. Arkadianos will be the base of this workshop.
In this workshop, we will teach:

• How to approach the obese patient during the first visit to the Physician’s Practice/Clinic and the diagnostic steps that should be followed.
• The therapeutic treatment methods proposed and based on interventions on the patient's lifestyle will be presented.
• Finally, interesting clinical cases from the Clinic of Dr. Arkadianos will be presented, and the participants will discuss the specificity of each clinical case.