Magda Tsolaki was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and studied Medicine and Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). She began her collaboration with AUTh in 1982 as a scientific collaborator, and a year later obtained her specialty in Neuropsychiatry and her PhD. She has been a Professor of Neurology since 2010 and served as Head of the 1st University Department of Neurology from 2017 to 2020. She is currently an Emeritus Professor.

She founded the Greek Alzheimer Association in 1995 and the Greek Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease in 2007, where she continues to serve as Chair. She is also the Scientific Director of three Public Dementia Units (founded in 2007, 2009, and 2022) for patients with neurodegenerative diseases and their caregivers.

She has delivered more than 656 lectures throughout Greece. She has participated in over 77 funded research programs and 31 funded clinical trials, and has received a total of 85 awards. Dr. Magda Tsolaki is the main author of 60 books and numerous abstracts presented at Greek (531) and international (489) conferences. She is the first author or co-author of many papers published in Greek (285) and international journals (680, of which 589 are indexed in PubMed), with an h-index of 115 and more than 62,862 citations in Google Scholar.

Over the past seven years, she has been invited to serve as a member of the Greek National Observatory for Dementia. She has participated as an invited speaker in more than 157 meetings and conferences in English and 344 in Greek. Furthermore, she has served as a reviewer for 430 conferences and journals and has organized 60 national and 5 international conferences on Alzheimer’s disease.

Finally, she has served as one of three to seven advisory committee members for 36 completed doctoral theses and 61 postgraduate theses.

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