Christos Socrates Mantzoros

Christos Socrates Mantzoros is a Greek-born American physician-scientist, practicing internist-endocrinologist, teacher and researcher. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Medicine. He currently serves as the chief of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the VA Boston Healthcare System, where he created de novo a leading academic division true to its tripartite mission and as the founding director of human nutrition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School. Finally, he holds the editor-in-chief position of the journal ''Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental''.

In the past, Mantzoros has also served as a professor of environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health, associate fellowship program director at BIDMC and later as endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism founding fellowship program director at the Boston VA Healthcare System.

A practicing internist, endocrinologist and dedicated educator, he is considered a pioneer and worldwide expert in obesity and metabolism. He has given more than 600 lectures nationally and internationally on these critical topics. His research has resulted in more than 1.000 publications in total, i.e. 700 publications under his name in Medline in addition to more than 200 publications under the collaborative Look Ahead Research Group and more than 290 chapters and reviews or editorials. His work has received more than 165,000 citations, with an h-index of 155 and an i10-index of 611 (Google Scholar). Provided by Wikipedia