Professor Nikolaos G. Nikitakis received his DDS and MD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece and his PhD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), USA. He is Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (ABOMP) and Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP) and the American Academy of Oral Medicine (AAOM). He has also completed a sabbatical in the School of Dentistry and MD Anderson Cancer Center in the University of Texas, Houston (UTH), USA.
Prof. Nikitakis is currently the Dean (2022-present), as well as Professor and Chair (2018-present), Department of Oral Medicine & Pathology and Hospital Dentistry, in the School of Dentistry, NKUA.
He is Past President and member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Oral Medicine (EAOM), in which he served as Secretary General (2014-2018) and President (2018-2021). He is also currently President of the Hellenic Association of Oral Medicine and Pathology (HAOMP) (2015-present).
His clinical interests include the clinical and histopathologic diagnosis and management of oral and maxillofacial diseases, while his research endeavors primarily focus on oral, head and neck oncology/cancer research.
He has over 275 papers and 200 abstracts published in scientific journals, with approximately 4.000 citations and h index: 37 on Scopus and 6.600 citations and h index: 46 on Google Scholar. He is author of a textbook in Contemporary Oral Medicine and Pathology and of several chapters in other textbooks and handbooks. He serves in the Editorial Board of various scientific journals.
He has presented and lectured extensively in national and international meetings and has been invited as Visiting Professor/Lecturer in several Universities in Europe and America. For his scientific work, he has received several honors and awards.
He was the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the AAOM-EAOM Joint Meeting in Las Vegas, USA in May 2025, and will serve as President of the EAOM-AAOM Joint Meeting with Global Participation in Athens, Greece in September 2027.