Tsitiridis
Health economist, father of two, serial buyer of books I have not yet opened, and a persistent researcher of small subjects.
The work
I turn clinical evidence into the funding case for cardiac monitoring devices.
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BIOTRONIK
Health Economics and Market Access
2017 to now
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BaseCase
Director of Customer Success and Technical Support
2014 to 2017
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HeartWare
Health Economics Consultant
2013 to 2014
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
MSc Health Economics
2012 to 2013 Education
Publications
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2025
PharmacoEconomics-Open, 9(5), 837–848
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2023
Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, 66(8), 1795–1797
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2022
EE587 Cost-effectiveness of device-based long-term cardiac monitoring in high-risk post-myocardial infarction patients
Value in Health, 25(12), S171
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2019
The name
çıtır
Turkish: crispy, crackling. Fresh bread, wood in the fire.
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ίδης
Greek: son of. The patronymic of Pontus and Asia Minor.
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Τσιτηρίδης
Son of the crispy one.
The suffix is the giveaway: names in ίδης cluster among the Greeks of Pontus, the south coast of the Black Sea, where Greek towns had traded since roughly 700 BC. The root is Turkish, because after 1461 the two languages shared every marketplace on that coast. Çıtır is the sound of a fresh crust giving way. Somewhere out there an ancestor answered to it as a nickname. A baker, if the family is lucky. A crackling temperament, if not.
In 1923 the Lausanne Convention made it final: the Orthodox Christians of Anatolia, about 1.2 million people, were exchanged to Greece, the Pontic Greeks among them, many already refugees before the ink dried. Most of those families were resettled in Macedonia. The nickname made the crossing, the suffix made it official, and a market stall joke became a surname. The map below has no borders. At no point in this story did borders help.
Trapezounta 41.0°N 39.7°E to Thessaloniki 40.6°N 22.9°E
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c. 700 BC
Ships from Miletus plant trading towns along the Black Sea's south coast. Sinope is one of them, and ships from Sinope plant Trapezous, a market town under the Pontic Alps.
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1461
Eight years after Constantinople, Trebizond surrenders to Mehmed II. Pontic Greek stays on the coast and starts trading words with Turkish.
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1923
After a decade of war and persecution, the Lausanne Convention makes the uprooting final. The nickname boards a ship west, wearing its Greek suffix, and lands in Macedonia.
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Today
The name lives in Berlin, answers email in three languages, and still sounds like fresh bread.
Contact
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