Personal details
Position: Assistant Professor
Specialty: Athletes’ Physical Health Evaluation
Department: Sports Medicine
Laboratory: Sports Medicine
Current administrative positions:
- Member of the General Assembly,
- Member of the Commission of Pregraduate program studies,
- Member of Executive Committee (InterSchool Post-graduate program “Sports & Health”)
Personal Webpage: http://users.auth.gr/koutlian
Contact details
Office: Sports Medicine Lab, Building of Laboratories, 3 rd floor, TEFFA, Campus of Thermi
Tel: 0030 2310 992188
Fax: 0030 2310 992188
e-mail: koutlian@phed.auth.gr
Student consultation: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 09:00-11:00
Qualifications
Degree:
- Physical Education & Sports Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1996),
- Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012)
PhD: Human Performance and Health (2001)
Teaching
Undergraduate courses:
- Descriptive and Functional Anatomy,
- Sports Medicine, Swimming &
- Physical Health,
- Lifeguarding
Postgraduate courses:
- Ergogenic Aids-Special Issues of Nutrition,
- Sports Medicine
Research
Research interests:
- Pre-participation screening of athletes,
- prevention of sudden cardiac death in athletes,
- doping,
- clinical exercise physiology,
- health disorders in swimming,
- exercise induced adaptations of cardiovascular,
- respiratory and autonomic nervous system
Books:
- Human Performance and Health in Football. Answers in 100 questions.
- N. Koutlianos, Ch. Christoudis. Sportbook, Thessaloniki, 2014.
Selected publications (up to 10):
- G.A. Christou, E.J. Kouidi, M.A. Anifanti, P.G. Sotiriou, N.A. Koutlianos, A.P. Deligiannis. Pathophysiological mechanisms of noncardiac syncope in athletes. Int J Cardiol; 1(224): 20-26, 2016
- A.P. Deligiannis, E.J. Kouidi, N.A. Koutlianos, V. Karagiannis, M.A. Anifanti, K. Tsorbatzoglou, D. Farmakis, C. Avgerinos, D.N. Mameletzi, A.P. Samara. Eighteen years’ experience applying old and current strategies in the pre-participation cardiovascular screening of athletes. Hellenic J Cardiol; 55(1):32-41, 2014.
- N. Koutlianos, E. Dimitros, T. Metaxas, A.S. Deligiannis, E. Kouidi. Indirect Estimation of VO 2 max in athletes by ACSM’s equation: Valid or not? Hippokratia; 17(2): 136-140, 2013.
- E. Dimitros, N. Koutlianos, M. Anifanti, E. Pagourelias, E. Kouidi, A. Deligiannis. Comparative study of ECG and echocardiographic parameters indicative of cardiac hypertrophy in athletes. Sport Sci Health; 8(2-3): 101-107, 2013.
- D. Patikas, A. Kansizoglou, N. Koutlianos, C.A. Williams, K. Hatzikotoulas, E. Bassa, C. Kotzamanidis. Fatigue and recovery in children and adults during sustained contractions at 2 different submaximal intensities. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab; 38(9):953-9, 2013.
- V. Christoforidi, N. Koutlianos, P. Deligiannis, E. Kouidi, A. Deligiannis. Heart rate variability in free diving athletes. Clin Physiol Func Im; 32(2): 162-166, 2012.
- D. Mameletzi, E. Kouidi, N. Koutlianos, A. Deligiannis. Effects of long-term exercise training on cardiac baroreflex sensitivity in patients with coronary artery disease: a randomized controlled trial. Clin Rehabil; 25(3): 217-227, 2011.
- M. Pagkalos, N. Koutlianos, E. Kouidi, E. Pagkalos, N. Koutlianos, A. Deligiannis. Heart rate variability modifications following exercise training in type 2 diabetic patients with definite cardiac autonomic neuropathy. BJSM; 42: 47-54, 2007.
- T. Metaxas, T. Sendelides, N. Koutlianos, K. Mandroukas. Seasonal variation of aerobic performance in soccer players according to positional role. J Sports Med Phys Fitness; 46(4):520-5, 2006.
- N. Koutlianos, E. Kouidi, Th. Metaxas, A. Deligiannis. Non-invasive cardiac electrophysiological indices in athletes with mitral valve prolapse. Eur J Cardiovasc Prevent & Rehabil; 11(5): 435-441, 2004.
Reviewer in journals:
- Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports,
- Hippokratia,
- Medical Engineering and Physics,
- Κινησιολογία,
- Επιθεώρηση Βιοχημείας και Φυσιολογίας της Άσκησης,
- Ελληνική Ιατρική,
- Γυναίκα και Άθληση