Clinical Olfaction
Our clinic is part of the 2nd Academic ORL Department of Thessaloniki since 2007. It is the only official Smell and Taste specialist clinic in the Greek National Health System.
We treat patients with smell and taste disorders of post-urti, post traumatic, post-surgical, post-covid, idiopathic or congenital cause. At the moment this is the only smell and taste clinic for medico-legal consultations in Greece (led by I. Konstantinidis). It is a member of the European network of similar clinics called the European Clinical Olfactory Working Group (ECOWG) under the auspices of European Rhinological Society.
Olfactory and gustatory disorders are not only of clinical interest to us, but also of investigative interest.
The team
Iordanis Konstantinidis is head of the Smell and Taste Outpatient clinic of the 2nd Academic ORL Department of Thessaloniki and was one of the founding members of the European Clinical Olfactory Working Group. He has published almost 70 studies in internationally peer reviewed journals and has taken part in numerous international collaborations. I. Konstantinidis is a reviewer in well-known scientific journals in Otorhinolaryngology (Laryngoscope, European Archives, etc.) and an invited speaker in many International and National Congresses abroad. He is currently the General Secretary of the Greek Rhinological Society.
Evangelia Tsakiropoulou is an ENT specialist and post-doc research fellow. She completed a Master Degree in Health and Sports (2010) and received her PhD degree for studying nasal air conditioning in 2014. Since 2010 she has been working in the Smell and Taste clinic in Thessaloniki where she gains great experience dealing with a large number of patients suffering from olfactory disorders. She has published more than 20 papers (mainly in Rhinology and Olfaction) in internationally peer reviewed journals. In 2015 she took the prize for post-PhD research from Aristotelio University for a project on olfactory training in patients with mild cognitive impairment. She is currently the Treasurer of Greek Society of ORL Allergy.
Sotiria Genetzaki is an ORL specialist and PhD student conducting clinical research on the diagnosis of anosmia and on olfactory training. In 2019 she was a fellow in the Rhinology and Olfactology Unit of Geneva University Hospital. She has co-authored research studies in olfaction published in peer reviewed journals.
Konstantinos Garefis is a PhD student with a research project in olfaction working in our group.