Dr. Andreas P Diamantopoulos is a consultant in Rheumatology at the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Rheumatology at Akershus University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, a Master in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and a Diploma in Health Economics, administration, and management from the London School of Economics, UK.

Dr. Diamantopoulos has a deep and long-standing interest in musculoskeletal and vascular ultrasound. He was the founder and director of the first International Ultrasound Workshop in Large Vessel Vasculitis in Kristiansand, Norway, where he established one of the first Fast track vasculitis and musculoskeletal ultrasound clinics. In addition, he is a member of the EULAR/ACR working group on Polymyalgia Rheumatica, the European Vasculitis Study Group (EUVAS), and the OMERACT group on ultrasound in LVV. For his research activity, he has been awarded the best clinical abstract in EULAR 2013 in Madrid and two times the travel award of the Japanese College of Rheumatology.

His current research focuses on using ultrasound as a diagnostic and follow-up tool in large vessel vasculitides.

Publications

Brkic A, Terslev L, Møller Døhn U, Torp-Pedersen S, Schmidt WA, Diamantopoulos AP. Clinical Applicability of Ultrasound in Systemic Large Vessel Vasculitides. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019 Jul 16. doi: 10.1002/art.41039.

AP Diamantopoulos, G Haugeberg, H Hetland, DM Soldal, R Bie, G Myklebust. The diagnostic value of color Doppler ultrasonography of the temporal arteries and large vessels in giant cell arteritis: A consecutive case series. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2013 Sep 19

Chrysidis S, Duftner C, Dejaco C, Schäfer VS, Ramiro S, Carrara G, Scirè CA, Hocevar A, Diamantopoulos AP, Iagnocco A, Mukhtyar C, Ponte C, Naredo E, De Miguel E, Bruyn GA, Warrington KJ, Terslev L, Milchert M, D'Agostino MA, Koster MJ, Rastalsky N, Hanova P, Macchioni P, Kermani TA, Lorenzen T, Døhn UM, Fredberg U, Hartung W, Dasgupta B, Schmidt WA. Definitions and reliability assessment of elementary ultrasound lesions in giant cell arteritis: a study from the OMERACT Large Vessel Vasculitis Ultrasound Working Group. RMD Open. 2018 May 17;4(1):e000598

Dejaco C, Ramiro S, Duftner C, Besson FL, Bley TA, Blockmans D, Brouwer E, Cimmino MA, Clark E, Dasgupta B, Diamantopoulos AP, Direskeneli H, Iagnocco A, Klink T, Neill L, Ponte C, Salvarani C, Slart RHJA, Whitlock M, Schmidt WA. EULAR recommendations for the use of imaging in large vessel vasculitis in clinical practice. Ann Rheum Dis. 2018 Jan 22.

Terslev L, Diamantopoulos AP, Døhn UM, Schmidt WA, Torp-Pedersen S. Settings and artefacts relevant for Doppler ultrasound in large vessel vasculitis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2017 Jul 20;19(1):167.

Luqmani R, Lee E, Singh S, Gillett M, Schmidt WA, Bradburn M, Dasgupta B, Diamantopoulos AP, Forrester-Barker W, Hamilton W, Masters S, McDonald B, McNally E, Pease C, Piper J, Salmon J, Wailoo A, Wolfe K, Hutchings A. The Role of Ultrasound Compared to Biopsy of Temporal Arteries in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis (TABUL): a diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness study. Health Technol Assess. 2016 Nov;20(90):1-238.

Diamantopoulos AP, Haugeberg G, Lindland A, Myklebust G. The fast-track ultrasound clinic for early diagnosis of giant cell arteritis significantly reduces permanent visual impairment: Towards a more effective strategy to improve clinical outcome in giant cell arteritis? Rheumatology 2015 Aug 18.