Email: pkost@vet.uth.gr
Phone: +30 24410 66022

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Polychronis Kostoulas

Assistant Professor
Veterinary Epidemiology

 

Research interests

Reliability of diagnostic tests, Bayesian methods and artificial intelligence in epidemiology

 

Curriculum vitae

Polychronis Kostoulas is an epidemiologist and his main research interest is the development and application of Bayesian methods in disease surveillance programs. He has recently taken initiatives to apply artificial intelligence methods in epidemiology. He has more than 40 international publications (https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=wsDK6zgAAAAJ&hl=en) and has participated in 15 international research projects. In three (3) of them he was the coordinator for the Greek research team of the project and in another two (2) the general coordinator of the project. He recently took over as one of the three co-editors-in-Chief of Preventive Veterinary Medicine.

Full curriculum vitae

 

Courses

  • Biostatistics
  • Animal health Economics
 

Selected Publications

  • Kostoulas P, Leontides L, Enøe C, et al. Bayesian estimation of sensitivity and specificity of serum ELISA and faecal culture for diagnosis of paratuberculosis in Greek dairy sheep and goats. Prev. Vet. Med. 2006;76(1–2).
  • Kostoulas P, Nielsen SS, Branscum AJ, et al. Reporting guidelines for diagnostic accuracy studies that use Bayesian latent class models (STARD-BLCM). Stat. Med. 2017;36(23).
  • Kostoulas P, Giovannini A, Alba A, et al. Harmonisation Of Transmissible disease Interpretation in the EU (HOTLINE). EFSA Support. Publ. 2019;
  • Whittington R, Donat K, Weber MF, et al. Control of paratuberculosis: Who, why and how. A review of 48 countries. BMC Vet. Res. 2019;
  • Furuya-Kanamori L, Kostoulas P, Doi SAR. A new method for synthesizing test accuracy data outperformed the bivariate method. J. Clin. Epidemiol. 2020;