Mr. Parissopoulos is a registered nurse and an Assistant Professor in "Intensive Care Nursing and Medical Anthropology" at the Department of Nursing of the University of West Attica in Athens (former T.E.I. of Athens). His clinical background is Acute Medicine and Intensive Care. He was a Staff Nurse and later on a Senior Staff Nurse (Intensive Care) in Sheffield and Brighton, England, from 1996 to 2009. He completed the BSc in Nursing in 1994, and his Degree (BSc-Hons) in Social Anthropology at the Panteion University of Athens in 2009. He obtained his MMedSci in Clinical Nursing at The University of Sheffield (2000), specialized in Intensive Care Nursing and completed the Mentor Preparation course at the University of Brighton (l2007, 2008), and was awarded a PhD in Social Anthropology at the Panteion University in 2022 for conducting an ethnographic study on “Nursing Praxis in Intensive Care Unit. Clinical decision making and power relations” (2021).