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Achilles S. Demetriou M.D., Ph.D., FACS

President and Chief Operating Officer, University Hospitals Of Cleveland, Inc.

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Dr. Achilles S. Demetriou, MD, FACS, PhD, serves as the Chief Operating Officer at University Hospitals Health System, Inc. Dr. Demetriou serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of University Hospitals of Cleveland. Dr. Demetriou serves as Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He holds the Esther and Marc Schulman Chair in Transplantation Medicine and Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. ... Dr. Demetriou served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center since 1995 and also served as its Director of the Liver Support Unit. He served as Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery at UCLA School of Medicine. He served as the Paul W. Sanger Chairman in Surgery and Director of the S.R. Light Surgical Research Laboratory at Vanderbilt. He served as Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board at Spectral Molecular Imaging, Inc. He served as the Chairman of the Advisory board at Cascade Technologies Corp. and serves as its member of the Advisory board. Dr. Demetriou co-founded Arbios Systems Inc. and served as its Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board. He serves as a Trustee at Southwest General Health Center Inc. He serves as a Director of BioEnterprise Corporation. He serves as a Member of Medical Advisory Board of PinnacleCare International LLC. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at HepaLife Technologies Inc. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. Dr. Demetriou is Journal Reviewer for the American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Hepatology, and New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Demetriou is the Editor of a standard monograph "Support of the Acutely Failing Liver" and Associate Editor of the definitive "Textbook of Surgical Research". He was the Secretary of the Surgical Biology Club. In 1998, he was elected into the Academy of Athens as a Corresponding Member. Dr. Demetriou serves on several National Institutes of Health Study Sections and Consensus Conference panels. He is a Founding Member and Councilor of the Cell Transplant Society and a Founding Member of the World Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. He was a Member of the Marion Bessin Liver Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He served on numerous national and international professional committees. He was Professor of Surgery at UCLA. With his appointment in 1982 as Assistant Professor of Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center, Dr. Demetriou began a teaching and professional career that has included a number of positions at Einstein, Vanderbilt University and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville. He has written extensively, with 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals to his credit as well as 210 non-peer-reviewed, including a number of chapters on transplantation issues and clinical trials of the bioartificial liver. He is a Faculty Member of the Food and Drug Administration Training School for FDA staff. He has given 165 invited lectures and presentations at universities and scientific meetings around the world. He is recognized as a pioneer of hepatocyte-based liver support system development in 1970 at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Demetriou has received many honors and awards, such as The Esther and Marck Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine; "Honoris Causa" doctor of Medicine degree, University of Athens, Greece; and William Hillman Award for Excellence in Teaching as a House Officer, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, U.S. Dr. Demetriou's research projects focused on the bioartificial liver, clinical trials of liver support systems, hepatocyte transplantation biology and gene expression abnormalities in liver disease. He holds nine patents in conjunction with his liver research, including an artificial liver apparatus. He is a pioneer in the development of the bioartificial liver. He was a Fellow of Research, Biochemical Pharmacology, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Demetriou completed his residency in Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee and Affiliated Hospitals. He holds an M.D. from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel in 1972 and his PhD in Biochemistry from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

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