Michael Stavros Radeos, MD MPH, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA to Stavros (born in Tripoli) and Pota (born in Sparta) Radeos. He graduated Tufts University School of Medicine, did Emergency Medicine (EM) Internship at LA County and EM Residency at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Board Certified in EM in 1988. In 2000, he earned an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health, during an NIH Fellowship in Respiratory Epidemiology at the Channing Laboratory in Boston. In 2010, he was appointed ACEP Lead Ambassador to Greece and created the Hellenic-American Emergency Medicine Exchange (HAEME) Program funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, training 17 Greek physicians in the USA model of Emergency Medicine. Many HAEME alumnae are now leaders of the supra-specialty of EM in Greece. Dr. Radeos worked with Dr. Eleni Askitopoulou (Past President of the Hellenic Society for Emergency Medicine) and Dr. Panos Aggouridakis (also Past HeSEM President) to establish Emergency Medicine as a supra-specialty in Greece. In 2018, Dr. Radeos became Board Certified in Addiction Medicine and created two ACGME certified Addiction Medicine Fellowships: the first at NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health and the second at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.