Eleni Boutati graduated in Medicine from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, in 1984 and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Second Department of Internal Medicine of the same university, qualifying as a specialist in 1991. She obtained her doctoral degree in 1993 and subsequently completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, from 1993 to 1996.
Between 1996 and 2001, she held senior positions in the pharmaceutical industry, serving as Medical Director at SmithKline Beecham and Novartis Hellas. During this period, she was also a member of the local Executive Committee and the European Board of Medical Directors.
In 2001, she joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Athens as a Lecturer. She was appointed Assistant Professor in 2006, promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and became Full Professor of Internal Medicine and Diabetes Mellitus in 2022. She is currently affiliated with the Second Department of Internal Medicine at Attikon University Hospital in Athens, where she serves as Scientific Lead of the Internal Medicine Division.
Her main clinical and research interests include internal medicine, diabetes mellitus, metabolic disorders, infectious diseases, and inflammation. Throughout her academic career, she has been actively involved in several international multicentre clinical trials and has contributed to the development of clinical research activities within her department.
She has authored numerous scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals and contributed extensively to medical education, including chapters in undergraduate and postgraduate medical textbooks and the scientific editing of books on internal medicine. She has also supervised doctoral research and participated as an invited speaker and organizer in numerous national and international scientific meetings and congresses.