Vasiliki-Rafaela Vakouftsi

Vasiliki-Rafaela Vakouftsi is the President of the Hellenic Society of Crohn’s Disease’s and Ulcerative Colitis Patients and President of the Greek Patients’ Association. 

  

Experience
  • Vasiliki-Rafaela participates as a Patient Advisor in various European projects, and in 2021 she became a Fellow of the Crohn’s and Colitis Young Adults Network and is registered in the European Medicines Agency (EMA) expert base.

    • She has completed the EFCCA Academy – Training Certified Patient Experts: training on ClinicalTrials, EFCCA YOUTH Academy: Leaders for Tomorrow and in October 2023 she graduated from the European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI). 
    • During her years of involvement with patients’ associations, she has participated in numerous conferences at national, European and international levels, in several of them as a speaker, while as a patient representative, she actively participates in numerous committees and working groups in national and European bodies concerning health policy making, patients’ rights, drug shortages, clinical trials, etc.
    • Finally, articles in which she has participated as an author have been published in reputable scientific journals and have been presented at conferences.

     

Terms on our Board
  • 1st term (2025-2027)