George is today an Honorary Professor of the Moscow Medical Academy (Academy of Medical Sciences) , Professor in the Kiev Medical Academy and Collaborating Professor in Basque Medical University (2001-2004) .
In 1996, he was honored with the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, http://www.rightlivelihood.org) “ for his outstanding contribution to the revival of homeopathic knowledge and the training of homeopaths to the highest standards” . United Nations (Development Forum) consider this award “Among the world’s most prestigious awards”, while TIME Magazine called Jacob Uexkull, the award’s inspirator, as one of the 37 “heroes” of 2005 . In 2000, George was honored with the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Republic, from the country’s President, Arpad Goncz, for his work in homeopathic medicine .
In 1995, he established the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy in Alonissos, in which he is the director. In this Academy, George gives the value of 40 years of experience and his recent ideas of levels of health. In his teachings, he gives details that will help the doctor to determine the state of health of each individual patient and also the ability to estimate whether a case is curable with homeopathy and the amount of time and remedies that will be needed to accomplish a cure.
Every year, during the summer months, groups of doctors from various countries are being trained there, from Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Russia, U.S.A., Canada, Austria, Japan, India, Mexico, Brazil and of course Greek doctors.
The most important articles of George Vithoulkas in peer-reviewed journals are the following:
1. True but strange? Nature, 1996 Oct 3;383(6599):383, G Vithoulkas
2. Debate: Homeopathy and chronic headache, Homeopathy, Volume 91, Issue 3, July 2002, Pages 186-188, G Vithoulkas.
3. Homeopathic treatment of chronic headache: a critique, Homeopathy, Volume 91, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 32-34, G Vithoulkas
4. The need for the correct sequence of remedies, Homeopathy, Volume 91, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 40-42, G Vithoulkas
5. A proving of Thiosinamine, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 3, July 2001, Page 172, G Vithoulkas
6. The question of the “constitutional remedy” , British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 145-147, G Vithoulkas
7. Medically qualified vs NMQ homoeopaths, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 37-38, G Vithoulkas
8. As good as gold? British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 85, Issue 1, January 1996, Page 39, G Vithoulkas
9. Obstacles to homoeopathic treatment, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 85, Issue 1, January 1996, Page 42, G Vithoulkas
10. Health and disease in homoeopathic philosophy, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 179-180, G Vithoulkas
11. Homoeopathy: past, present and future, British Journal Clin. Pharmacol. 1998, Jun;45(6):613, G Vithoulkas
12. Answer to the review of my book “The Science of Homeopathy” , British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1979, Pages 233-238, G Vithoulkas
13. The necessity for an inner preparation of the classical homeopath, Simillimum, 2005, Volume 19, Pages 117-122, G Vithoulkas
14. The colour of the homeopathic improvement: The multidimensional nature of the response to homeopathic therapy, Homeopathy, Volume 94, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 196-199, M. Oberbaum, SR Singer, G Vithoulkas
15. Effects of homeopathic treatment in women with premenstrual syndrome: a pilot study, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 148-153, M Yakir, S Kreitler, A Bzrezinski, G Vithoulkas, M Oberbaum, Z Bentwich
16. Homoeopathic treatment of premenstrual syndrome: a pilot study, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 182-183, M Yakir, S Kreitler, M Oberbaum, A Bzizinsky, G Vithoulkas, Z Bentwich
17. Perspectives of research in homoeopathy 1987-1994, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 176-177, Z Bentwich, M Oberbaum, Z Weisman, N Harpaz, D Rothman, G Vithoulkas
18. A working hypothesis for homoeopathic microdiluted remedies, British Homoeopathic Journal, Volume 81, Issue 1, January 1992, Page 67, GS Anagnostatos, G Vithoulkas, P Garzonis, C Tavouxoglou
19. Reinventing the wheel? Or the emperor’s new clothes, J Altern Complement Med. 2003 Oct;9(5):613-5, M Oberbaum, G Vithoulkas, R van Haselen, S Singer
20. Clinical trials of classical homeopathy: reflections on appropriate research designs, J Altern Complement Med 2003 Feb;9(1):105-11. Review, M Oberbaum, G Vithoulkas, R van Haselen
Ten of his articles that have been published in peer reviewed magazines are mentioned in PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), seven of them in the British Library Direct (www.direct.bl.uk, a British Library database that hosts reputable articles), fifteen of them in Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com) and fifty three journal results are mentioned in Scirus (www.scirus.com, a credible and acceptable by scientists scientific database).
Seventy citations for George Vithoulkas can be found in ISI-Thomson Scientific (www.isinet.com), the credible and recognized worldwide citations database.
In the prestigious “Papyros Larousse-Britannica ” encyclopedia, in a three column article, he is mentioned as “leader homeopath, one of the most famous reformers of Homeopathy during the twentieth century, the man who added new dynamics to the therapeutics of homeopathy on a scientific base”. His work is also being mentioned in “Who is Who in the World”, (18th edition, p.2293).
His name is mentioned in the website Better World Heroes (www.betterworldheroes.com), among approximately 725 personalities that with their presence and work influenced or helped humanity. The German website mlahanas (www.mlahanas.de ), evaluating Greek doctors that they have excelled abroad with their scientific papers, placed George Vithoulkas second -among 34 doctors-, after Georgios Papanikolaou (who discovered pap test).
In 1980, George was called from the World Health Organization to write the article about Homeopathy for the book Traditional Medicine that WHO published, as well as the main article in the round table for the scientific magazine of WHO, World Health Forum .
In 1998, George was called by the Council of Europe to advise about homeopathic medicine. In the text that was published, his views on homeopathy and alternative therapeutic systems are referred to and the Alternative Nobel Prize award is mentioned.
More information can be found at www.vithoulkas.com from which this article is taken.


