Aristotelis Bamias is professor at the Medical School, University of Athens, Greece and former director of the 2nd Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, ATTIKON University Hospital. He studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Athens and trained in internal medicine and medical oncology in the UK where he obtained his PhD at the University of London and served as lecturer in medical oncology. He is a founding member and chair of the Hellenic Genito-Urinary Cancer Group (HGUCG) and currently vice chair of the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology (HeSMO). Professor Bamias has been a member of the European Society of Μedical Οncology (ESMO) Faculty for Genitourinary Cancer since 2012 and he chaired this group from 2016 to 2020. His main research focus in oncology is urogenital and gynaecological tumours. A member of several international advisory boards and steering committees of international trials, he has authored or co-authored more than 350 original papers and reviews in peer-reviewed journals including N Engl J Med, Lancet, Lancet Oncology and J Clin Oncol, with more than 25000 citations by other authors and an h-index of 75.