Dr Nick A. Lygidakis is running a private clinic in Athens and until 2016 he has served as Senior Consultant and Director in the NHS Regional Dental Centre for Children in Athens. He is also teaching in the postgraduate paediatric dental programs of the Universities of Athens, Giessen, and Leeds, in the latter being Honorary Reader since 2002. He holds MSc degrees in Child Dental Health (London) and Genetics (Oxford) and a PhD (Athens).
He has served as EAPD President and Secretary and HSPD President, being involved in the organization of a great number of European and Greek scientific, professional and CPD activities, including the ‘EAPD Hermes and Athena’ programs that he first introduced in Europe. At present he is Editor in Chief of the European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry, the official journal of EAPD.
He has 58 publications, with more than 1800 citations, 370 abstracts and a great number of invited lectures in Congresses and Seminars. His research and clinical interests are in the fields of dental anomalies, special needs patients, trauma, fissure sealants and interceptive orthodontics and he is frequently an invited speaker internationally on these subjects.
He has been awarded with various distinctions, including honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine in UK, Fellowship of the International College of Dentists and Membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Science