Meet the team
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Agnieszka Fihel
coordinatrice scientifique du projet CODA-EU
Agnieszka Fihel, obtained Ph.D. in economic sciences from the University of Warsaw in 2009. She carried out post-doctoral research (in 2009, 2011) and other research projects (2014–2016) in the Institut national d’études démographiques in Paris, she taught at several French Universities (Paris Nanterre, Paris 1 – La Sorbonne, Sciences Po, de Versaillles et Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). Since 2018 she has been a fellow at the Institut Migrations Convergences, Paris. She conducted several research projects, both as a collaborator and a leader, on mortality by causes of death in Central Europe and demographic changes in post-communist countries.
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Justyna Grudziąż-Sękowska
PhD, MPH
School of Public Health, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
Role: preparation of materials on the most common causes of death in Poland and identification of the areas of the most common errors in their coding.
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Barbara Stawinska-Witoszynska
MD, PhD
Professor Stawinska-Witoszynska is the Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Hygiene, Chair of Social Medicine, at Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland. She is a highly specialized expert in WHO guidelines concerning causes of death: she was a medical coder and trainer of medical coders in Poland, she is the co-author of handbook on reporting causes of death dedicated to medical doctors (in Polish). Her research interests include: the application of secondary data to health evaluation of population (including children and teenagers) in Poznan and Wielkopolska, hypertension prevalence at young ages and excess male mortality.
Role : She contributed to practical exercises and other e-learning materials in CODA-EU project.
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Alicja Baska
MD
Department of Lifestyle Medicine, School of Public Health, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
Role: preparation of materials on the importance of information on causes of death, translating scenarios for the completion of death certificates in practical part of the course.
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Evangelia Ntzani
MD, PhD
Associate Professor & Head, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Paediatrician, Epidemiologist, Cancer registry co-ordinator, Death certificate submission trainer, Member of the School Education Committee.
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Evangelos Rizos
MD, PhD
Consultant in Internal Medicine, Diabetology
University hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece
Role in the project: Prepare different scenarios for the completion of death certificates.
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Anna Batistatou
MD, PhD
Professor and School Head
University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Pathologist, Member of the University Senate, Member of the School Education Committee,
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Panagiotis Filis
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
Role: preparation of scenarios for the completion of death certificates
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Stavroula Tsiara
MD, PhD;
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina School of Medicine; Internist, Head of the Ioannina Medical Council
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Minas Paschopoulos
MD, PhD
Professor
Vice-Dean, University of Ioannina; Department Head, University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Obstetrician/Gynecologist
Member of the National Deans’ Convention
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Ioanna Tzoulaki
PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Epidemiologist, UK Biobank Data Enhancement Coordination Group.