Maria Piagkou (DDS, MD, MSc in forensic medicine and toxicology, Ph.D. in anatomy) is an oral surgeon and is currently working as an associate professor at the Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She is a Deputy Vice-President of the Hellenic Association of Public Health in Greece and a Deputy President of the printed material handling committee of the National Organization for Medicines. She has twenty-one years of teaching activity in the field of anatomy, focused on head and neck, oral and maxillofacial area, as well as on skull base anatomy and anatomical variants. Her main areas of interest are head and neck anatomy and surgery, skull base anatomy, oral surgery, maxillofacial and dental trauma, rehabilitation, intraoral fixation after condylar fractures, and teeth replantation.She is an associate editor in 2 journals of Anatomy and acts as Editorial Board Member in other 6 journals. She authored 6 chapters in neuroanatomy and oral and maxillofacial surgery and thoracic surgery books, 2 monographs, and edited the translation of 9 books. She is a reviewer in 30 international scientific journals. She authored 150 publications in PubMed, 91 abstracts in 26 international congresses, and 318 abstracts in Greek scientific meetings.She is General Secretary of the Sports Medicine Association of Greece and treasurer of the Hellenic Association of Anatomy. She speaks English, French and Italian.
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skull base, anatomy, head and neck anatomy, neuroanatomy, variations, surgical anatomy, clinical anatomy, vascular anatomy, neural anatomy, gross anatomy