Mrs. Maria Fountoulaki | Health Professions | Best Researcher Award
University General Hospital Attikon | Greece
Maria Fountoulaki is an emerging clinical researcher whose work spans critical care medicine, anesthesiology, psychiatry, and public health, with growing impact across interdisciplinary healthcare research. Her scholarship focuses on optimizing patient outcomes in intensive care settings, perioperative monitoring, respiratory function assessment, and adolescent health behaviors. Through collaborative investigations, she contributes evidence-based insights into sedation practices, hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilation strategies, and the interplay between sleep habits, academic performance, and well-being among young populations. Her research on dexmedetomidine use in adult ICUs provides an extensive synthesis of two decades of clinical experience, supporting safer sedation protocols and refining current critical care practices. Additionally, her work evaluating tidal volume challenges and preload indices during non-cardiac surgery offers valuable guidance for intraoperative decision-making and personalized monitoring. Across her publications, she demonstrates a strong commitment to advancing clinical standards through rigorous study design, multidisciplinary teamwork, and practical translation of findings into real-world medical practice.Maria Fountoulaki’s scholarly presence continues to grow, as evidenced by her Scopus metrics, which include 33 citations across 33 citing documents, 6 indexed publications, and an h-index of 2. She is also visible on Google Scholar, where her citation impact continues to increase through collaborative and independent research contributions. Her work reflects a balance of clinical relevance and scientific inquiry, positioning her as a developing expert in critical care and perioperative medicine, with expanding influence in health behavior research.
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Featured Publications
Sertaridou, E. N., Fountoulaki, M., Jha, A., Papaioannou, V. E., & Alexopoulou, C. (2025). Dexmedetomidine’s role in adult ICU after 20 years of experience: A narrative review. Healthcare, 13, 2882.
Griva, P., Kapetanakis, E. I., Milionis, O., Panagouli, K., Fountoulaki, M., & Sidiropoulou, T. (2024). Tidal volume challenge to assess volume responsiveness with dynamic preload indices during non-cardiac surgery: A prospective study. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14, 101.
Alexopoulou, C., Fountoulaki, M., Papavasileiou, A., & Kondili, E. (2024). Sleep habits, academic performance and health behaviors of adolescents in Southern Greece. Healthcare, 12, 775.