Alex C. Spyropoulos, MD received his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, NM. He is a Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and System Director of Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services for the multi hospital Northwell Health System in New York, Professor of the Institute for Health Systems Science as part of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and Professor of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine. He is Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Thessaly in Larissa, Greece. He has founded the Broxmeyer Fellowship in Clinical Thrombosis at the Feinstein Institutes for advanced training in the area of clinical thrombosis and anticoagulant therapy. As a clinical trialist, he has deep expertise in leading landmark global randomized controlled trials that include National Institutes of Health initiatives in the United States in the area of anticoagulant therapy and thrombosis. He has chaired multiple international scientific and guideline committees on the topic of thromboprophylaxis and perioperative use of anticoagulant therapy and has developed multiple teaching curricula on these topics. His expertise and that of his research team includes the development of risk models and clinical decision support systems either as stand-alone tools or integrated into cloud-based platforms (including the EvidencePoint platform that can be integrated agnostically into electronic health records of hospitalized patients).

As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr Spyropoulos will be teaching sections of the Advanced Post-Graduate Course on Thrombosis and Antithrombotic Therapy at the School of Medicine of the University of Thessaly, which he helped to develop. His research project includes the integration of a globally used venous thromboembolism clinical prediction tool for hospitalized medical patients that he developed called IMPROVE VTE into the electronic health records of the University Hospital of the University of Thessaly using the EvidencePoint platform. The project will assess rates of appropriate thromboprophylaxis and potential for improved clinical outcomes with the use of the tool, including assessing reductions in thrombosis.

Arlene is an acclaimed veteran multimedia journalist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker whose extensive body of work focuses deeply on overlooked and everyday human stories. The scholar's Fulbright project in Greece Keeping the Faith: Meet the Romaniotes of Ioannina combines photographic portraits with oral history of the last remaining Romaniotes of Ioannina. Only 28 Romaniotes Jews remain in a city of close to 65,000 and in a municipality of almost 114,000. This project aims to document the lives of surviving members of the Romaniote community at home, at work, at the synagogue, and in interviews as part of an extensive oral history project.   

Keeping the Faith is a documentary and archival project focused on exploring and preserving the history of Romaniote Jews in Ioannina, Romaniotes are the oldest continuous Jewish community in Europe going back 2,300 years. Unlike Hebrew and Yiddish speaking Jews, Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe and Ladino speaking Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal, the Greek speaking Romaniotes trace their roots back to Hellenistic and Roman eras.  Arlene will pursue this project in collaboration with the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina. 

Scott H. Pike is a Professor of Environmental Science and Archaeology at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. His interdisciplinary research integrates geology, archaeology, and geospatial technologies to investigate ancient landscapes and cultural heritage. Pike's scholarship has focused on the provenance of marble used in the ancient Mediterranean, archaeological landscape analysis, and the application of drones, LiDAR, photogrammetry, and geochemical methods to archaeological fieldwork. He is the recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and is committed to engaging students in hands-on, field-based research.

As a 2027 Fulbright Scholar, he will use drone-based remote sensing technologies to document wildfire-impacted archaeological landscapes in Greece, helping assess threats to cultural heritage while supporting training and collaboration among researchers, students, and heritage professionals through teaching and outreach activities at the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science.

Theodore J. Hanna is a U.S. attorney and Fulbright Greece Research Grantee specializing in public international law, sovereign debt, and international financial governance. Admitted in New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, he combines experience in bankruptcy and insolvency litigation with academic research in international economic law. He holds an LL.M. in Public International and European Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where his research focuses on financial stability, digital monetary systems, and transnational legal frameworks.