PROFILE
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Associate to Μetropolitan General
EDUCATION & ACADEMIC TITLES
Professor of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2013.
FRCS, Diploma of Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, UK, 1989; Primary FRCS Edinburgh UK, 1987; Primary FRCS Glasgow, UK, 1987;
Postgraduate Surgical training in UK (1985 to 1991) including rotation of the Guy's Hospital London, in ‘high surgical training for registrars and senior registrars - carrier posts.’
Qualified as Surgeon in Athens in 1984. Trained in Surgery at the B’ Surgical Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aretaieion Hospital Athens.
Graduated - Ptychion Iatrikes, from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1977.
Postgraduate seminars and certified educational programs
Participated in many educational programs in Britain and certified with FRCS, Diploma of Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, UK in 1989.
Participated in the organizing committees of 22 Hellenic Congresses. President of the 10th Hellenic Congress of Surgical Infections, 2007.
Participated in the organizing committees of more than 12 International Congresses and Scientific meetings, of which, he has exclusively organized the 7. President of the European Congress of Surgical Infection Society – Europe ‘SIS-E 2018, Athens’.
Participated in more than 116 National Hellenic Congresses and Scientific seminars, of which as an invited lecturer in 65.
Participated in more than 64 International Congresses and Scientific seminars, of which as an invited lecturer in 11.
Educational Work and Medical Theses
Professor Papadopoulos, worked in Academic Surgical Units in most of his carrier and have an extended Educational work at a Hellenic and International level for Undergraduate and Postgraduate trainees from 1981 to 2021. He has substantially contributed in creating Educational Environment at his work places and beyond.
Indicatively, he participated in more than 18 Medical Theses at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He participated in research study related to Undergraduate Medical Education and Training in the Greek Medical Schools.
He Organized two International Seminars on ‘Key issues in Medical Education’, at ‘Attikon’ University General Hospital in Athens, in 2010 and 2012.
He participated as Educator / ATLS Instructor, teaching in 20 seminars the ‘Advanced Trauma Life Support Program’ of the American College of Surgeons.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor Papadopoulos, is practicing General Surgery focusing on Surgical Oncology.
Professor Papadopoulos was Director / Consultant of the D’ Surgery Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the ‘Attikon’ University General Hospital of Athens, 2017 – 2018.
During his carrier (1992 to 2018) as a staff member of the D’ Department of Surgery of the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has practiced a wide range of major surgical procedures.
During his Postgraduate Surgical Education and Training in Britain (1985 to 1991) worked in NHS units with increased surgical practice in the fields of Surgical Oncology of the Gastrointestinal tract, as in gastric and oesophageal cancer, the surgical oncology of the large bowel and rectum cancer, the surgical oncology of the breast, in the fields of
laparoscopic surgery, and the emergency surgery.
He initiated his Surgical Education and Training program at the B’ Surgical Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aretaieion Hospital in Athens 1981 to 1984.
Clinical Focus in Surgical Practice
Professor Papadopoulos has a wide experience in gastrointestinal surgical oncology as in Gastric cancer and oesophageal cancer surgery and D2-Lymphadenectomies, in the Colon and rectum cancer surgery with total mesorectal excisions and ultra-low anastomoses, anal canal surgery, pancreatic surgery, sentinel-lymph node and lymphadenectomies for
malignant melanoma, sentinel-lymph node and lymphadenectomies for breast cancer, laparoscopic surgery, trauma, surgical infections and necrotizing soft tissue infections, and emergency surgery.
Clinical Audit and Quality Control
Professor Papadopoulos, favors good clinical practice. He has created 1). An electronic audit and research data-base, for auditing colon and rectum cancer surgery, and 2) An audit and research electronic registry to investigate Trauma management outcome, in Attica, Greece.
MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES & EDITORIAL BOARDS
A) Participation in Hellenic Scientific Societies
1. Member of the Medical Association of Athens; 2. Member of the Hellenic Surgical Society and elected Member of the Board of Education of the Hellenic Surgical Society, for four years; 4. Member of the Hellenic Society of Trauma and Emergency Surgery; 5. Member of the Council of the Hellenic Society of Surgical Infections and President of the Council
of the Hellenic Society of Surgical Infections in 2009; 6. Member of the Hellenic Society of Laparoscopic Surgery. 7. Member of the Hellenic Society of Surgical Oncology.
B) Participation in International Scientific Societies
7. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCS Glasgow). 8. Member of the Scientific Society ‘European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES) 2008; 9. Member of the Council of the Surgical ‘Infection Society – Europe (SIS-E); 10. Member of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) 2009; 11.
Member of the ‘British Association of Surgical Oncology’; 12. Member of the ‘The International Society of the Diseases of the Oesophagus’; 13. Member of the ‘European Association for Cancer Education’.
Reviewer in 10 international Medical Journals that are well known for their high scientific level.
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
The research fields include Gastric Cancer, Colon and rectum cancer, Trauma management, Surgical Infections, Medical Education, and Audit / Quality of Health care
DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS
Awarded for many paper presentations and publications.
DIPLOMA of FELLOWSHIP Of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCS Glasgow).
PUBLICATIONS
He authored more than 230 publications of all types, Full text and Abstracts, in International and Greek Medical Journals.
Selective full text publications are displayed in the following Databases:
My Bibliography / US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health: Iordanis Papadopoulos's Bibliography:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1t5JXQmP7b2kd/bibliography/public/
Google Scholar profile:
https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=2AJpV_4AAAAJ&hl=en
