Email: gc@vet.uth.gr
Phone: +30 24410 66003

 Contact with students: Thursday 11:00 – 13:00 (teleconference)

George Christodoulopoulos

Professor

Production Animal Medicine

 

Research interests

Veterinary Medicine; Veterinary Clinical Practice; Herd Health Management; Parasitology; Cattle; Small ruminants; Sheep; Goats; Cestodes; Taenias; Molecular Biology

 

Curriculum vitae

George Christodoulopoulos is Professor in Production Animal Medicine in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, in University of Thessaly (Greece). He was born 1966 in Filiatra Messinie, where grew up on a sheep and goat’ dairy farm. He holds a DVM and a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Thessaloniki (Greece), a PhD in Molecular Biology from Hohenheim University (Germany), a Certificate in Sheep Health and Production from RCVS (UK), and the diplomas of European Colleges of Bovine and Small Ruminant Health Management. He has pursued postdoc studies in Cornell (USA) as Fulbright scholar, and also in Massey (New Zealand) as invited researcher. George is an experience and caring veterinary clinician, with specialist interests in Ruminant Medicine and Clinical Practice. He has been employed by the University of Thessaly since 1999 and is author and co-author of more than 150 publications in the field of Veterinary Medicine. He is married and father of a child.

Full curriculum vitae

 

Courses

  • Production Animal Medicine Ι
  • Production Animal Medicine ΙI
  • Production Animal Medicine ΙII
  • Production Animal Medicine ΙV
  • Clinical Practice in Production Animal Medicine Ι
  • Clinical Practice in Production Animal Medicine ΙI
 

Selected Publications

Filioussis G, Kachrimanidou M, Christodoulopoulos G, Kyritsi M, Hadjichristodoulou C, Adamopoulou M, Tzivara A, Kritas SK, Grinberg A (2020). Bovine mastitis caused by a multidrug-resistant, mcr-1-positive (colistin-resistant), extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli clone on a Greek dairy farm. Journal of Dairy Science 103(1): 852-857.

Christodoulopoulos G, Dinkel A, Romig T, Ebi D, Mackenstedt U, Loos-Frank B (2016). Cerebral and non-cerebral coenurosis: On the genotypic and phenotypic diversity of Taenia multiceps. Parasitology Research 115(12): 4543-4558.

Christodoulopoulos G, Kassab A, Theodoropoulos G (2015). Characteristics of non-cerebral coenurosis in tropical goats. Veterinary Parasitology 211 (3-4): 216-222, doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2015.05.020

Christodoulopoulos G, Scott PR, Jehl N, Filioussis G & Smith SH (2013). Clinical, microbiological, and histological findings in lambs affected by “salivary abomasum disease”. Veterinary Record 172(4): 100. doi: 10.1136/vr.101050

Christodoulopoulos G (2006). Maedi-Visna: Clinical review and short reference on the disease status in Meditteranean countries. Small Ruminant Research 62(1-2): 47-53.