Tenured Staff - Researchers
Dr Ada Markaki:
Name: Adelais (Ada) Markaki, APRN-BC, PhD
Title: Instructor, Primary Health Care – Dept. of Social Medicine
Contact details: Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
PO Box 2208, University of Crete, Voutes, Heraklion
71003 Crete, Greece
Telephone: +30 2810 394615
Fax: +30 2810 394606
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Website https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adelais_Markaki/?ev=hdr_xprf
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Ada Markaki is a Clinical Specialist in Public Health/Community Nursing. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece, as well as a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and a Master of Arts (MA) in Medical Anthropology from Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
Dr. Markaki’s professional experience spans over 27 years, with the first 15 years in the U.S.A., where she held a number of clinical, research, administrative, and consulting positions.
Upon returning to Greece, she taught undergraduate nursing students at the Τechnological Εducational Ιnstitute of Crete. As a clinical specialist nurse, employed by the Regional Health System of Crete, she was responsible for planning, coordinating, and supporting all NHS primary health care services and personnel activities throughout the island of Crete.
In 2010, she was appointed Instructor at the Department of Social Medicine, where she teaches undergraduate medical students as well as MPH students. She also coordinates the annual visit of students and faculty from the Upper Midwest Association of International Education consortium in the US, as part of the cultural immersion course “The Greek Connection: Embracing Transcultural Caring in Ancient and Modern Greece”.
As a Researcher at the CSFM since 2001, she has been actively involved in several research projects. The latest, funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013, is entitled “Operational integration between primary healthcare (PHC) and other healthcare entities using standardized quality processes”. Her main research interests include: primary health care, collaborative practice, multidisciplinary teams, inter-professional teaching, continuing education, compassionate care, human resource management, capacity building, and organ donation policy/systems. Her research has been published in national and international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Markaki serves in the editorial panel or as a reviewer for the following scientific journals: “International Journal of Rural and Remote Health”, “Applied Nursing Research” and “Protovathmia Frontida Ygeias”. In 2003 she was appointed Expert Nurse by the Hellenic Nurses’ National Association for the International Council of Nurses (ICN) regarding primary health care, home care and advanced practice nursing. She is the first Advanced Practice Nurse in Greece to be certified in Public/Community Health Nursing by the American Credentialing Nursing Center.