Chemical Environmental Pollutants and Their Effect on Health

Aikaterini Salavoura is a pediatrician with subspeciality in immunology and allergy working in Children’s Hospital ＂Αgia Sophia＂ in Athens, Greece. Her PhD thesis at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens involved clinical and molecular investigation of genetic syndromes (1995). She continued her studies on molecular biology in Great Ormond Street, London in 2000, supported by a scholarship from the Greek National Foundation of Scholarships. She obtained a MSc on environmental health from Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2015. She studied allergy at St Thomas Hospital, London and worked for two years in the UK as a consultant in allergy. She currently works as a consultant in a Unit of Pediatric Allergy at the 1st Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has had a teaching role in the training of specializing physicians and nurses in the Children’s Hospital ＂Αgia Sophia＂ in Athens, Greece and she participated in the publication of local professional and public journals voluntarily.