First Aid National was established to provide certified First Aid training as well as specialized training courses in the emergency pre-hospital treatment. Our programs take place all over Greece and are aimed at laypeople, healthcare professionals, security staff and armed forces, professionals involved in sports, industrial workers, etc.

Our training courses are certified by two recognized European certification Institutions, the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP). They are two recognized scientific and educational institutions not only at European but also at global level.

First Aid National’s scientific consultants are Mr Nikolaos Gourtsas and Dr.Nikolaos Malliaropoulos.

Nikolaos Gourtsas has been working for almost 35 years in the area of ​​emergency pre-hospital care because of his professional status as a professional Paramedic. He is Course Organizer/Director & Board Member of the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians and Course Organizer/Director of the European Resuscitation Council, which allows him to organize certified courses bearing the stamp of recognized and competent scientific institutions. He has given many lectures on First Aid all over Greece to a number of different institutions representing mainly ECOSEP, while in 2003, 2008 and 2015 he took part in the weekly program of ERT – 3 “Health” by presenting on TV First Aid skills. He is the author of five First Aid Books which have been taught since 2008 at several University Schools in Greece.

Dr. Nikolaos Malliaropoulos, MD, Msc & Dipl in SEM, Phd, FFSEM (UK), is Lecturer in Medical School of Aristoteles University in Thessaloniki and from 1986 to 2015 was Director of the Sports Injuries Clinic of Track and Field Association in Thessaloniki. He is also a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Queen Mary University of London, founding member of the Greek Sports Medicine Association and General Secretary of ECOSEP which is one of Institutions that certify our programs.

The Instructors that collaborate with First Aid National are all health professionals certified at national and European level. They have many years of educational experience and because of their professional involvement with the treatment of the injured they offer the participants of the courses a high level training experience. Also, our trainers have been teaching in English for many years, having trained English-speaking staff of multinational companies operating in our country.