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Dr. Dimities S Karagiannakis graduated the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-Greece, in 2000. After that, he completed 15 months of medical practice in villages of Greek province, and next, he joined the Greek army for 1 year. From 2003 to 2008 he was trained in Internal Medicine at Sismanogleio General Hospital of Athens, Greece. Afterward, he was specialized in Hepatology at Laiko General Hospital-University of Athens, from 2008 to 2010. Three years later, he received a Doctoral degree in Hepatology (Ph.D.). He worked as a Consultant of Hepatology at Iaso General Hospital (Iaso Group of Athens) from August 2009 to October 2017 and as a Research Assistant Herpetologist at the Academic Department of Gastroenterology, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, during the same period of time. Afterwards, he worked as an Academic Research Fellow at the Academic Department of Gastroenterology, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-Greece, from 2017 to 2023. Since October 2023, he has been working at Metropolitan General Hospital of Athens-Greece, as a Deputy Director of the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, while he has been directing the Liver Unit of the hospital.