Medical practice, Accredited physician, Consultant for the Internal medicine unit, Clinique Générale Beaulieu
Consultant, Nutrition unit, Speciality department, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
Specialist in general internal medicine and geriatrics, Member of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH)
Clinical nutritionist
Medical practice, Accredited physician, Consultant for the Internal medicine unit, Clinique Générale Beaulieu
Consultant, Nutrition unit, Speciality department, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
Consultant nutritionist, Centre d’Oncologie des Eaux-Vives, Geneva.
Consultant nutritionist, Centre for internal medicine and related specialisms, Clinique La Colline, Geneva.
Associate Physician, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Speciality department, Nutrition unit.
Chief resident, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Speciality department, Nutrition unit.
Chief resident, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Internal medicine, rehabilitation and geriatrics department, Hôpital des Trois-Chêne.
Junior doctor, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Community health department, Medical polyclinic.
Junior doctor, Internal medicine department, Hôpital du Jura.
Junior doctor, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Rehabilitation and geriatrics department, Hôpital des Trois-Chêne.
Junior doctor, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Psychiatric unit, Geriatric psychiatric department.
Acting resident, Gerontology and geriatrics department of the Clinique du Diaconat, Groupe Hospitalier Privé du Centre Alsace.
ERAS (enhanced recovery after surgery) certificate.
Certificate of specialised training in geriatrics.
Diploma from the ABAARM (American Board of Anti-Aging / Regenerative Medicine), USA.
Certificate from the 19th IOF Advanced Training Course on Osteoporosis held in Lyon, France in February 2010.
FMH certification in internal medicine
ACLS (advanced cardiac life support) diploma
Diplôme inter-universitaire in nutrition of the elderly, Faculty of medicine, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France.
Diplôme inter-universitaire in systemic rheumatic diseases, Faculty of medicine, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg.
Certificate in gerontology from the University of Geneva.
Medical degree, Faculty of medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
35th ESPEN Convention, Leipzig, Germany, September 2013. Poster presentation : D. Samaras, C. Pison, N. Cano,H. Lejeune, H. Roth, C. Pichard. Adequate selection of chronic respiratory failure malnourished patients may improve clinical outcomes and efficiency of a multimodal intervention: a posthoc analysis of a PRCT
Journées Francophones de Nutrition, Bordeaux, France, December 2013. Poster presentation: J. Fournier, J. Mareschal, D. Samaras, P. Rigoli, L. Genton, H. Vees, L. Soguel Alexander: Raisons du refus de la pose d’une sonde naso-gastrique d’alimentation chez les patients atteints d’un cancer ORL traités par radiothérapie: Preliminary study.
Annual conference of the Société Française de Gériatrie et Gérontologie, Paris, October 2012. Poster presentation: Samaras N, Frangos E, Samaras D. Renutrition in older patients: the importance of hormonal monitoring, illustrated by a case study.
9th annual convention « European Menopause and Andropause Society », Athènes, Mars 2012. Poster presentation: Samaras N, Samaras D. Hormonal profile after intravenous renutrition of a geriatric patient.
Annual convention of the « Gerontological Society of America », Boston November 2011. Poster presentation: Samaras N, Samaras D. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale for Depression Screening in Elderly Inpatients in a Memory Consultation.
Annual convention of the « European Union Geriatric Medicine Society », Malaga September 2011. Poster presentation: Rossi C, Samaras N, Samaras D. «Tophaceous Gout and Bone Destruction as the First Symptom of Hyperuricemia in an Elderly Woman. A Case Report.»
Annual Convention of the American Geriatric Society, National Harbor MD May 2011. Poster presentation: Samaras D, Frangos E, Adamopoulos D, Samaras N. «Lingua villosa nigra in a geriatric patient».
7th European Convention of the ”International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics” (IAGG), April 2011. Poster presentation : Samaras D, Samaras N, Rossi G, Coti Bertrand P, Lesourd B. « Comparison of the inter-observatory reproducibility of two different methods of dietary assessment in a geriatric ward ».
Annual Convention of the American Geriatric Society, Orlando May 2010. Poster presentation : Samaras D, Samaras N, Rossi G, Coti Bertrand P, Lesourd B. « Comparison of the inter-observatory reproducibility of two different methods of dietary assessment in a geriatric ward ».
Annual Panhellenique medical convention, Athens, Greece, May 2001. Oral Presentation: ‘Association of allelic loss at fhit locus and P53 alterations with tumour kinetics and chromosomal instability in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinomas’.
November 2017
55th Swiss continuous professional development course: Nutrition in surgery and intensive care.
– Perioperative nutrition
– Monitoring of nutritional condition and artificial nutrition
April 2017
54th Swiss training course in nutrition: Oncology and nutrition.
– Constipation and diarrhoea: dietary fibre and medication
– Clinical cases: Group presentation
March 2017
Host of the 29th Geneva Day of Clinical Nutrition at the Hôpitaux Universitaire de Genève: “Do young people have a place in medicine? Is there a need to adapt treatment schemes?”
November 2016
Chronic respiratory failure and nutrition; Fresenius Kabi Symposium. Appetite and chronic inflammation.
November 2016
53rd Swiss continuous professional development course: Nutrition in surgery and intensive care
– Perioperative nutrition
– Monitoring of nutritional condition and artificial nutrition
April 2016
52nd Swiss training course in nutrition: Oncology and nutrition.
– Constipation and diarrhoea: dietary fibre and medication.
– Clinical cases: group presentation and discussion.
March 2016
28th Geneva day of Clinical Nutrition at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève: “Vitamins and oligoelements: Interactions with medication”.
November 2014
Developments in oncology in 2014; Fresenius Kabi Symposium: Young people and cancer.
November 2014
CPD, Hôpital du Jura: “Vitamins and oligoelements: Interactions with medication”.
October 2014
49th Swiss continuous professional development course: Nutrition in surgery and intensive care.
– Perioperative nutrition
– Monitoring of nutritional condition and artificial nutrition
January 2014
Ligue Pulmonaire Genevoise: Testosterone in BPCO patients
May 2013
46th Swiss training course in nutrition: Oncology and nutrition
– Enteral nutrition and monitoring
– Nutritional monitoring: Clinical and biological screening
March 2013
25th Geneva Day of Clinical Nutrition
– Testosterone and nutrition
February 2013
Forum on wounds: All aspects of wounds, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne
– The benefits of certain amino acids for muscles
December 2012 and January 2013
Training programme for pharmacy assistants, Groupement des Pharmaciens Hospitaliers Romands
– The history of nutrition
– The nutrition team: getting on at work and at mealtime
November 2012
Training programme, Antenne de Diététiciens Genevois:
– Youth: matter in a vacuum?
October 2012
45th Swiss training course in nutrition: Surgery and intensive care:
– Perioperative nutrition
– Monitoring of nutritional condition and artificial nutrition
July 2012
Training programme, Hôpital de Beau-Séjour: A better understanding of screening and treatment for malnutrition
June 2012
Training programme, Clinique de Joli-Mont: Malnutrition
April 2012
44th Swiss training course in nutrition: Oncology and Nutrition
– Constipation and diarrhoea: dietary fibre and medication
– Clinical cases: group presentation and discussion
March 2012
24th Geneva Day of Clinical Nutrition: Software to assist with nutritional prescriptions
March 2012
Training programme, Clinique de Joli-Mont: Prevention of osteoporosis: a private affair
September 2011
Scientific colloquium of the Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics: Vitamin D: When and How?
May 2011
Presentation for the Geriatrics Association: Vitamin D: When and How?
November 2010
Scientific colloquium of the Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics: Orthostatic and postprandial hypotension
March 2010
Presentation for the Geriatrics Association: Pharmacological treatment of behaviour disorders in demented patients.
July 2006
Scientific colloquium of the Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics: Postprandial Hypotension
Board Certificate of the ABAARM (American Board of Anti-Aging / Regenerative Medicine)
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