Marinos Sotiropoulos

Personal Details

Current position (2)

Clinical Fellow in Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellow

Mass General Brigham

Achievements (1)

Chief Neurology Resident

Mass General Brigham Neurology Residency Program:
recognized by peers, core faculty and department leadership and selected to serve as chief resident for the 2024-2025 academic year

Degrees (3)

Medicine

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, GREECE

2013 to 2019

Neurology

Harvard Medical School

2019 to 2024

Master of Medical Education

University of Dundee

2024

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Brief Resume

I am a doctor, neurologist and medical educator. I have an extensive neuroscience and education background, having researched both the way the brain works and the most effective ways to teach that to doctors and medical students.

Academic Resume

I am a neurologist passionate about behavioral neurology, neuropsychiatry, evidence-informed medical education and leadership. During my medical school studies in Athens, Greece, I worked in neuropsychopharmacology research, studying the behavioral and neurochemical effects of synthetic and natural compounds. However, the formative scholarship experience that solidified my passion for medical education was developing, implementing and evaluating a longitudinal, multimodal Neuroanatomy laboratory experience harnessing the benefits of structured, small group near-peer teaching. I also taught neuroanatomy, neurology, neuroscience and teaching skills to medical students, graduate students and the public. After graduating, I moved to Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School in Boston for a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroimmunology. There, I studied multiple sclerosis both at the bedside and the bench, defining the prognostic potential of incomplete recovery from relapses, identifying serum biomarkers of recovery and studying the associated molecular immunology.

I have continued teaching and education research at HMS and MGB since 2020, when I assisted in transitioning the Mind, Brain and Behavior preclinical course to its first virtual iteration during the COVID-19 pandemic. I teach at the clinical clerkships, Mind, Brain and Behavior, Transition to the Principal Clinical Experience and Practice of Medicine courses, and lecture in neuroscience graduate programs. In 2021, I was accepted in the Future Academic Clinician Educators Program as a Harvard Macy Scholar, and received an

Excellence in Teaching Citation at Tufts University School of Medicine. I was also commissioned by the World Health Organization to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on

health worker education. With funding by the Government of Canada and WHO, I founded the Health Worker Education (HEAL-Edu) Study Group and published the largest systematic review and meta-analysis quantifying the impact of the pandemic on clinical training and learners’ mental health worldwide.

I am currently leading and studying an active, simulation-based neurology curriculum for medicine residents in community hospitals utilizing teleneurology, which improved trainees’

skills and confidence in managing neurologic emergencies. I am also studying the clinical and educational impacts of teleneurology, and neuroanatomy learning modalities in HMS students. I love mentoring medical students in all these research projects; my mentees have received the American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Research Scholarship and a BWH Neurology Education microgrant.

I serve on the editorial boards of BMC Medical Education, Neurology: Education, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Pharmacology and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and as peer reviewer for more than 20 neurology, neuroscience and education journals/

Presentations

Presentations (11)

Impostor syndrome, peer learning and clinical teaching

impostor syndrome
evidence and research on peer assisted learning
evidence based strategies for clinical teaching

Your brain on art-Introduction to Neuroesthetics

the science of neuroesthetics: how the brain perceives and creates art

Scientifically speaking: how to ace it

Preparing and delivering a successful scientific presentation in a biomedical congress

The effectiveness of peer teaching in Neuroanatomy ... with actual proof

Evidence-based innovation in medical education: The outstanding results of peer teaching

Neuroplasticity: The human brain, "made for change"

mechanisms of neuroplasticity in the human brain

Memory, consciousness, happiness: the neuroscientist's perspective

the neurobiology of memory, reward and happiness

Medical Education: evidence, neuromyths and a pandemic

pros and cons of evidence based eduction
principles of adult learning
educational neuromyths
disruptions and responses in health worker education wordlwide during the COVID-19 pandemic

Forging your own career: postgraduate research and scholarship

navigating the steps of an academic career in medicine

Neurology Residency in the USA

The landscape of neurology training in the USA

Teleneurology and education

the challenges of teaching neurology to doctors and students with the increasing implementation of teleneurology
Implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive clinical
neurology curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents at a large
community hospital without in-house neurology

How your brain decides what is beautiful: the neuroscience of esthetics

introduction to neuroesthetics

Past talks (10)

Evidence-based innovation in medical education: The outstanding results of peer teaching

21st Scientific Congress of Hellenic Medical Students

Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, Athens

Diagnostic and therapeutic perspectives of novel biology

20th Scientific Congress of Hellenic Medical Students

Porto Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki

The human leukocyte antigen system and autoimmune neurological disorders

3rd Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Academy of NeuroImmunology on Multiple Sclerosis “Relapses”

HelANI, Eugenides Foundation and Metropolitan Hotel, Athens

Biological Mechanisms of Neuroplasticity

22nd Scientific Congress of Hellenic Medical Students,

University of Patras, Greece

The arts’ brain, the brain’s art. Introduction to Neuroesthetics-Interaction with Medicine

2nd Interdisciplinary Congress on Pediatric and Adolescent Multiple Sclerosis “Dialogues of Hellenic Neuroscientists on Pediatric and Adolescent MS”

Intercontinental Hotel, Athens

The effectiveness of peer teaching in Neuroanatomy ... with actual proof

2nd Neuroanatomy Peer Teaching Seminar “Training the trainers”

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School

Scientifically speaking: how to ace it (preparing and delivering a successful scientific presentation in a biomedical congress)

Scientific Society of Hellenic Medical Students

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School

Your brain on art: Introduction to Neuroesthetics

Northeastern Undergraduate Researchers of Neuroscience

Northeastern University, Boston MA

September 29, 2019

Antiepileptic drugs

Athens International Masters Programme in Neurosciences

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

June 20, 2018

Consciousness, memory, happiness: the neuroscientist’s perspective

Lycée Léonin Invited Lectures

Lycée Léonin de Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece

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Books & Articles (13)

Perinatal Psychopharmacology

Springer,

2019

Implementing Change in Neuroanatomy Education: Organization, Evolution, and Assessment of a Near‐Peer Teaching Program in an Undergraduate Medical School in Greece

The Patient I Didn't Like

Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Extra Virgin Olive Oil Total Phenolic Content and Sideritis Extract in Female Mice

Impostor syndrome: a calling for a career in medical education?

Medical and Surgical Education Challenges and Innovations in the COVID-19 Era: A Systematic Review

Innovative screening models for the discovery of new schizophrenia drug therapies: an integrated approach

Psychoactive properties of BNN27, a novel neurosteroid derivate, in male and female rats

Opposing and potentially antagonistic effects of BMP and TGF-β in multiple sclerosis: The "Yin and Yang" of neuro-immune Signaling

Achieving 'impossible' career goals: antimentoring and uncalled-for landmines in the pursuit of happiness and equal opportunity

CSF Volcano Due to Lateral Ventricle Entrapment and Rupture

Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic: global disruption, responses and lessons for the future-a systematic review and meta-analysis

Genes, brain dynamics and art: the genetic underpinnings of creativity in dancing, musicality and visual arts

Clients

Harvard Medical School

Allergan Aesthetics

Northeastern Undergraduate Researchers in Neuroscience

Mass General Brigham

Athens International Master's Program in Neuroscience

Exploring the Brain-Brain Awareness Week

Awards & certifications (6)

Excellence in Teaching

Tufts University School of Medicine

2022

Harvard Educators’ Alliance for Lifelong Learning (HEALers) Society

Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

2024

Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

2016

Outstanding Achievement Award

World Hellenic Biomedical Association

2018

Honorable Mention in Health Policy and Medical Education

Massachusetts Medical Society Research Poster Symposium

2024

Senior Resident Teacher of the Year Award

Mass General Brigham

2025

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Dr. Sotiropoulos is a knowledgable and enthusiastic presenter or, better say, teacher. I have the pleasure of attending his presentations every once in a while and I can testify on how much his presentations are thought-provoking and enjoyable. He engages his audience through an interactive method of teaching and before anyone is even aware of it, they are responding to him. His presentations are teaching moments through and through and personally I've learned a great deal from him.
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neurologist and educator passionate about the interface between human brain, behavior and education

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