National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece
Maria G. Tektonidou is Professor of Medicine/Rheumatology at the School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is, Head of the Rheumatology Unit and Head of the National Center of Expertise for Rare and Complex Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases at the First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital. She is also Head of the Joint Academic Rheumatology Program of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) “EULAR Centre of Excellence” (2026-2031). Professor Tektonidou completed her residency in Rheumatology at NKUA and worked as a Guest Researcher (2 months/year, 2009-2019) at the NIAMS/National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Professor Tektonidou’s principal research interests include the epidemiology, pathogenesis, outcomes and management of systemic rheumatic diseases, with a particular focus on systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). She has participated as an expert in several EULAR task forces for the management of SLE, the 2019 ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria for SLE, and the 2023 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for APS. She is leading the EULAR Study Group for APS, and chaired the EULAR recommendations for the management of APS in adults. More recently, she led the international collaborative programme to develop and validate the EULAR disease activity score for APS.
Her wider research interests include cardiovascular risk and comorbidities in systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, and she co-chaired the EULAR recommendations addressing cardiovascular risk management in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, including SLE and APS. She is actively involved in undergraduate, postgraduate and specialist rheumatology education and in international collaborative research aimed at improving outcomes for patients with systemic autoimmune diseases. She was recently appointed as a member of the EULAR Research Committee.