John Mantas, PhD (Greece)
Professor Emeritus in Health Informatics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Past President, European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI)
Past Vice-President, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
Prof. John Mantas is Professor Emeritus at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he directed the Health Informatics Laboratory from its foundation until 2022. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1979 and received his PhD in Computer Science in 1983. He began his academic career at the University of Manchester before moving to Athens, and has also served as Vice President of the Cyprus University of Technology and Dean of its School of Health Sciences.
He was President of EFMI from 2010 to 2012 and Vice-President of IMIA representing EFMI from 2012 to 2014. He is an Honorary Fellow of EFMI, a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. He has coordinated and taken part in many national and European research programmes in health informatics.