PROFILE
Associate Cardiac Surgeon at the Metropolitan General.
Specialty: Adult Congenital, Heart Valve and Aortic Surgeon
EDUCATION & ACADEMIC TITLES
- Graduate of Medical School, University of Athens.
- Master's Degree in "Minimally Invasive Surgery, Robotic Surgery and Tile surgery", Medical School, University of Athens.
- Master's Degree in "Endovascular Techniques" of the University of Athens School of Medicine in collaboration with the University of Milan.
INTERESTS / SPECIALTY AREAS
Cardiac surgery of young and middle-aged adults
- Adult Congenital, Heart Valve and Aortic Surgery
- Early Coronary Artery Disease, total revascularization with arterial grafts
- Coronary abnormalities (coronary anevrysms, arteriovenous malformations, anomaly origin of coronary vessels)
- Mitral prolapse
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Pulmonary Valve regurgitation
- Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Aortic Stenosis
- Atrial Septal Defect
- PAPVC
- Ventricular septal defect
- Coarctation
- Aortic and Aortic Root Anevrysms
- Aortic dissection
- Surgical Treatment of atrial fibrillation
- Endocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Cardiac tumors, complex and redo operations
- Minimally invasive techniques, thoracoscopic-endovascular techniques, hybrid and robotic surgery
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Ex Consultant at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (2011 - 2012, 2018 - 2019).
- Between 2012 - 2018 he worked as a Senior Registrar in Cardiac Surgery in the greatest University Hospitals of Great Britain such as Southampton, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow and London.
- He is a visiting Cardiac Surgeon at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center and in Liverpool Heart and Chest.
MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES & EDITORIAL BOARDS
- Member of the Athens Medical Association.
- Full Member of the General Medical Council of Great Britain.
- Member of the Hellenic Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
- Member of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery.
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
He has published papers in international journals and he has succeeded a lot of citations. You can see part of his research work at the following links:
DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS
- As a graduate of Athens Medical School, he received a scholarship through exams (provided by Helmsic) to be trained in surgery at Budapest University Hospital (1999).
- As a surgical resident he received a scholarship and moved with a special study leave to continue his special training in surgery to Mayo Clinic in the US to (2005 - 2006). During his stay there, he won a prize for the best publication in Contemporary Surgery journal.
PUBLICATIONS
Participation in Published Papers in International Journals. A part of his academic work can be found in the following links:
- https://academic.oup.com/icvts/article/8/5/561/666900
- https://www.hellenicjcardiol.org/archive/full_text/2009/1/2009_1_79.pdf
- https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)60790-8/fulltext#cesec10
- https://www.hellenicjcardiol.org/archive/full_text/2007/3/2007_3_175.pdf
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258835167_Is_the_fourth_operation_the_charm_for_hypercalcemia
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258835169_The_pheochromocytoma_that_wouldn't_go_away
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15776093
- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f5e4/8f90b5644b2ba20692bf66aa3f11248d4780.pdf?_ga=2.201259565.2076236642.1571774430-407761241.1571774430
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16311857
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17244966
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18634714
