Venetia Notara

Associate Professor Health Promotion – Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Dr. V. Notara holds a PhD in Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention from the Harokopeion University of Athens and an MSc in Health Promotion from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

She has many years of teaching experience at the undergraduate level and in particular during the years 1994-2000 she was a Laboratory Assistant at the Department of Health Visitors – TEI of Athens, 2008-2018 she served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health and Community Health – TEI of Athens, 2018-2022 she served as an Assistant Professor and since 2022 she has been serving as an Associate Professor at the Department of Public and Community Health – PADA.

She teaches in the fields of Health Promotion, Nutrition & Health and Healthy Ageing. At postgraduate level she teaches in the fields of Health Promotion and Health Education, Chronic Disease Prevention and Third Ageing.

Her research interests focus on old age, chronic disease prevention, health promotion and public health. Her research work, with publications in peer-reviewed international and national journals (>100 publications) and presentations/lectures at international and national conferences (>140 oral and poster presentations), covers the field of Health Promotion and focuses on knowledge, perceptions and lifestyle issues related to chronic disease prevention.

He coordinates, as scientific supervisor, research studies in collaboration with the Harokopeio University, Department of Nutrition Science-Dietetics and the Clinical Social and Family Medicine Department of the University of Crete Medical School and is a member of a research team in an international research project.

She participates, as a supervisor and as a member of a three-member committee, in the preparation of doctoral dissertations and postgraduate theses.

She is Chair of the Working Group on Epidemiology and Prevention of Atherosclerosis in the Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society (2021-).