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Fragiskos Gonidakis, MD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUOA) Medical School. He is currently the Head of Eating Disorders Unit and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy service of NKUOA 1st Psychiatric Department at Eginition Hospital. Dr. Gonidakis has trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Systemic Family Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. His clinical and research interests are focused on Eating Disorders, Transcultural Psychiatry and Borderline Personality Disorder. He has worked extensively in training and supervising mental health experts in Greece and Europe in CBT for Eating Disorders and DBT for Borderline Personality Disorders.

He has developed two distance learning programs on Eating Disorders and Borderline Personality Disorders that are delivered thought the e-learning platform of NKUOA. He is the co-author of five books in Greek: Anorexia Nervosa; Talking about Eating Disorders; Eating Disorders: Cognitive Behavioral approach; Talking about Borderline Personality Disorder, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy; and Ten steps for the treatment of Bulimia Nervosa. He has published in English and Greek more than 80 papers in psychiatric textbooks and scientific journals. He is currently the president of the Greek Association for Behavioral Research member association of the European Association for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (EABCT), and secretary of the Eating Disorders section of the Greek Psychiatric Association.