Dr. Elisavet Stavropoulou

Basic and Clinical Sciences (BCS)

Elisavet Stavropoulou is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease specialist. She obtained her Medical Degree from the Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace in 2015, where she also completed a Master’s degree in Hygiene and Occupational Health in 2021. She completed her specialty training in Internal Medicine and subsequently subspecialized in Infectious Diseases in Switzerland at the University Hospital of Lausanne – CHUV (2015–2023), an institution consistently ranked among the world’s leading hospitals in Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals list.
She holds two doctoral degrees: one in Infectious Diseases from the University of Lausanne (2023) and one in Microbiology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2025).
Her research focuses on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, with particular emphasis on infective endocarditis, other clinically relevant infections and the microbiome. She is actively engaged in international collaboration as part of the Endocarditis Research Team at the University Hospital of Lausanne. She has authored or co-authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 26 and over 7,000 citations. She has been included in the Scopus/Stanford “World’s Top 2% Scientists” list for 2025.