Goumenos Dimitrios
Goumenos Dimitrios
NEPHROLOGISTDimitrios Goumenos Professor of Nephrology, Director of the Nephrology Clinic, Athens Medical Center
Professor Dimitrios Goumenos has been the Director of the Nephrology Clinic of the Athens Medical Center since 2025. From 2009, when he was elected Professor of Pathology-Nephrology, until September 2025, he served as the Director of the Nephrology Department and the Kidney Transplant Unit of the University Hospital of Patras. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Associate Professor and from 1997 to 2005, Assistant Professor of Pathology-Nephrology at the University Hospital of Patras. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a Scientific Associate of the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, NKUA, SOTIRIA Hospital. For a number of years he was a Visiting Professor at the Sheffield Kidney Institute of the Northern General Hospital in Great Britain, with which he maintained scientific collaboration for more than 25 years. His clinical involvement concerns all areas of Nephrology (Clinical Nephrology, Kidney Transplantation, Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis) but his particular clinical interest concerns the treatment of glomerular diseases (glomerulonephritis) and the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease.
Mr. Dimitrios Goumenos graduated with ‘Excellence’ from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1982. After completing his military service and compulsory field service, he worked as a Resident Physician in Pathology from 1985 to 1987 and then as a Resident in Nephrology at the People’s Hospital of Athens from 1987 to 1991, when he received the title of Specialist in Nephrology. From 1992 to 1994, he received a scholarship from the ‘Alexander Onassis’ Foundation at the Sheffield Kidney Institute of the Northern General Hospital of Sheffield, UK. In 1993, he was declared a Doctor of Medicine of the Medical School of the University of Athens.
His research interests include the treatment of glomerulonephritis, the mechanisms of progression of renal damage, and the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease and kidney transplantation. He has participated in many large multicenter studies and is responsible for the creation of a Biobank for the study of new biomarkers for early diagnosis and timely intervention in patients with chronic kidney disease. He has been an invited speaker and member of the Scientific Committee of many Greek and European Nephrology Conferences. He was President and Responsible for the organization of the 17th Panhellenic Nephrology Congress in 2012 and the Panhellenic Transplantation Congress in 2015. In addition, he was Responsible for the organization of a CME Course in collaboration with the European Nephrology Association (ERA) and two Athens School in Nephrology in collaboration with the MAYO Clinic in Athens in 2020 and 2025. He has more than 200 publications in foreign-language journals with 5000 bibliographic references and h-index 37. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Clinical Kidney Journal (Theme editor in glomerular diseases) while he has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and Nephron journals. He is a reviewer of papers submitted for publication in most foreign-language journals in the specialty of Nephrology, mainly for papers on glomerular diseases. He has served as President of the Hellenic Nephrology Society (2014-2016), President of the Medical School of the University of Patras (2015-2020), Member of the Board of Directors of the European Society of Nephrology (2017-2020), of the Scientific Advisory Board and of the Immunonephrology Working Group Board of the European Society of Nephrology. He is Secretary General of the European Society of Nephrology (ERA) since 2025.
2025: Director of the Nephrology Clinic, Athens Medical Center
2009 – 2025: Professor of Pathology-Nephrology, Director of the Nephrology Department and Kidney Transplant Unit, University Hospital of Patras.
2005 – 2009: Associate Professor of Pathology-Nephrology, University Hospital of Patras
1997 – 2005: Assistant Professor of Pathology-Nephrology, University Hospital of Patras
1994 – 1997: Scientific Associate, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, NKUA, SOTIRIA Hospital
1992 – 1994: Postgraduate training with a scholarship from the ‘Alexander Onassis’ Foundation at the Sheffield Kidney Institute of the Northern General Hospital of Sheffield, UK
1993: Doctoral thesis on ‘Infections in renal failure: Epidemiological data, diagnostic criteria, therapeutic treatment’
1987 – 1991: Resident in Nephrology, People’s Hospital of Athens
1985 – 1987: Resident in Internal Medicine (mandatory training for obtaining a Nephrology specialty)
- University of Athens Medical School
- Acquisition of specialization in Nephrology at the People’s Hospital of Athens
- Doctor of Medicine, University of Athens
- Professor of Pathology – Nephrology, University of Patras
- Visiting Professor at the Masters Course in Nephrology at the Sheffield Kidney Institute of the Northern General Hospital of Great Britain, maintaining scientific collaboration for 25 years
- President of the Hellenic Society of Nephrology (2014 – 2016)
- President of the University of Patras Medical School (2015 – 2020)
- Member of the Board of Directors of the European Society of Nephrology (Council of ERA) from 2017 to 2021, of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and of the Board of the Immunonephrology Working Group (IWG) of the European Society of Nephrology.
- Secretary General of the European Society of Nephrology (ERA) since 2025
- Participation in all Greek and European Nephrology conferences with presentations and speeches continuously for the last 20 years.
- President and responsible for the organization of the 17th Panhellenic Congress of Nephrology, Patras 2012.
- President and responsible for the organization of the Panhellenic Congress of Transplantation, Patras 2015
- Responsible for the organization of the CME Course in collaboration with the European Society of Nephrology (ERA), Patras 2011
- Responsible for the organization of the 1st Athens School in Nephrology in collaboration with MAYO Clinic, Athens 2020
- Responsible for the organization of the 2nd Athens School in Nephrology in collaboration with MAYO Clinic, Athens 2025
Clinical experience in all areas of the specialty of Nephrology (Clinical Nephrology, Kidney Transplantation, Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis) having served for many years as Head of one of the largest Hospitals in the country but also with experience abroad.
Clinical and at the same time more specific research interest in the treatment of glomerular diseases (glomerulonephritis) and the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease with the aim of delaying its progression to renal failure. Particular interest in the mechanisms of progression of renal damage and kidney transplantation.
Participation in many large multicenter studies and organization of a special Biobank for the study of new biomarkers for early diagnosis and timely intervention in patients with chronic kidney disease.
- Scholarship of the “Alexander Onassis” Public Benefit Foundation for the period January 1992 – September 1993.
- “Grigoris Vosnidis” Award for the best study concerning the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis, Hellenic Nephrological Society 1997.
- “Hippocrates Giatzidis” Award for the paper “Growth factors and apoptosis in renal tissue during the progression of glomerular damage” 11th Panhellenic Congress of Nephrology 2000.
- Distinguished Fellow of European Renal Association (FERA), 2015.
Member of the Hellenic Society of Nephrology (ESN)
Member of the Hellenic Transplantation Society
Member of the European Society of Nephrology (ERA)
Member of the Editorial Board of foreign language journals
- Clinical Kidney Journal (Theme editor in glomerular diseases)
- Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
- Nephron
Reviewer of papers submitted for publication in most foreign language journals in the field of Nephrology, mainly on the topic of glomerular diseases
More than 200 publications in foreign language journals with 5000 bibliographic references and h-index 37.