Education & Academic Titles
09/10/2000 – 19/01/2007 Doctor of Medicine (Degree “Ptychion Iatrikes”) National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Health Sciences, Grade: “Very Good”
08/03/2007 Licence to Practice Medicine, Greece. Registration No: 2210. Hellenic Republic, Prefectural Authority of Eastern Athens, Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
17/03/2017 Licence to practice the qualification of Medical Specialty: General Surgery (CCT equivalent). Registration Number: 3955 Hellenic Republic, Region of Attica, Greece.
2013 – 2015 MSc in Minimal Invasive and Robotic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Health Sciences.
2018 Certificate of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) by American College of Surgeons (Committee on Trauma).
2012 Basic Surgical Skills Couse (BSS), provider: Royal College of Surgeons, Larissa, Greece.
2014, 2015 Definitive Trauma Care Course, (DSTC), provider: IATSIC, Athens, Greece.
2014 Centre Hospitallier Regional d’Orleans La Source, training course in Laparoscopic and Robotic Procedures.
2015 3rd International Advanced Course in Robotic and Laparoscopic General Surgery, provider: The Hellenic Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2015, 2017 Master Class Esophagogastric Surgery, provider: 1st Department of Propaedeutic General Surgery, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
2015 BARD Abdominal Hernia Repair Workshop, provider: BARD, Brussels, Belgium.
2017 Colorectal Laparoscopic Surgical Skills (CLASS) Courses, provider: 6th Department of Surgery – Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Professional Experience
18/05/2009 – 13/9/2010 Compulsory Military Service as a Military Doctor in Mytilini, Hellenic island, Greece.
15/09/2010 - 15/09/2016 Specialty Training post in the 3rd Surgical Department at “Attikon” University Hospital of Athens, Greece.
08/2016 – 10/2016 Two months training in laparoscopic colorectal and bariatric operations in Skaraborg Hospital Skovde, Sweden
10/2016 – 03/2017 Preparation for the Specialty exams in General Surgery (CCT).
04/2017 – 03/2019 Junior Consultant in General Surgery at the 3rd Surgical Department of “Attikon” University Hospital of Athens, Greece.
03/2019 – 03/2023 Senior Colorectal Fellow in Worcestershire Royal Hospital Colorectal Department , Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, West Midlands, United Kingdom.
05/2023 - up to date Consultant Laparoscopic General and Colorectal Surgeon in Metropolitan General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Locum Consultant Laparoscopic General and Colorectal Surgeon in Worcestershire Royal Hospital Colorectal Department, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
Clinical Interest
- Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
- Laparoscopic General Surgery
- Coloproctology
- Emergency Surgery
- Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Recent Publications
- Category of publication : review article
Date of publication : 29/09/2014
Journal title: Frontiers in Surgery
Publication title: Current concepts in the management of necrotizing fasciitis
Authors :E.Misiakos, G.Bagias, P.Patapis, D.Sotiropoulos, P.Kanavidis, A.Machairas. - Category of publication : review article
Date of publication : 01/07/2017
Journal title : Endocrine Regulations
Publication title :Pheochromocytoma, diagnosis and treatment: Review of the literature
Authors : Farrugia FA, Martikos G, Tzanetis P, Charalampopoulos A, Misiakos E, Zavras N, Sotiropoulos D. - Category of publication : review article
Date of publication : 01/01/2018
Journal title : Endocrine Regulations
Publication title : A short review of primary aldosteronism in a question and answer fashion
Authors : Farrugia FA, Zavras N, Martikos G, Tzanetis P, Charalampopoulos A, Misiakos E, Sotiropoulos D, Koliakos N. - Category of publication : review article
Date of publication : 01/12/2017
Journal title : ROM. J. INTERN. MED
Publication title : A step by step approach in deferential diagnosing of adrenal incidentaloma (epinephroma), (with comments on the new Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society of Endocrinology).
Authors : Farrugia FA, Misiakos E, Martikos G, Tzanetis P, Charalampopoulos A, Zavras N, Sotiropoulos D, Koliakos N. - Category of publication : Research Article
Date of publication : 07/12/2020
Journal Title : Journal of Surgical Research
Publication Title : Immunomodulation through Beta-D-Glucan in chemically induced necrotizing pancreatitis
Authors : Sotiropoulos D, Koliakos N, Renieris G, Pavlou K, Droggiti D, Gkavogianni T, Charalampopoulos A, Giamarellos-Bourboulis E.
Membership in Societies and Editorial Boards
2020 Associate Member of : The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland , ACP07028
2020 Member of Hellenic Surgical Society
2020 Member of European Society of Coloproctology ESCP
2017 GMC full registration with license to practice and in specialist registry General Surgery, 7602494
2007 Member of Medical Association of Athens
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2022 Member of the Hellenic Society of Hernia
2023 Member of the Greek Society of Coloproctology
Research
2019– up to date PhD Candidate in “Acute Pancreatitis: The pathway from local inflammation to systemic immune dysregulation” National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Greece.
PRESENTATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES:
- Sotiropoulos D, Koliakos N, Renieris G, Sabrakos L, Giamarellos E. “Acute Pancreatitis: The pathway from local inflammation to systemic immune dysregulation” . XVIII Congress of the European Shock Society, IX Congress of the International Federation of Shock Societies. October 2019, Chania, Crete, Greece.
- Koliakos N, Sotiropoulos D, Renieris G, Sabrakos L, Giamarellos E. “ Immunomodulatory therapy of necrotizing pancreatitis with Beta-D Glucan ”. XVIII Congress of the European Shock Society, IX Congress of the International Federation of Shock Societies. October 2019, Chania, Crete, Greece.
- Roditis K, Sotiropoulos D, Misiakos E, Tzepi I, Machairas N, Krivan S, Patapis P, Zavras N, Machairas A. “Gas Gangrene: Three Uncommon Locations Treated with the Vacuum – Assisted Closure Technique”. 99th Annual Clinical Congress of American College of Surgeons. October 2013, Washington DC.
- 12 Oral Presentations in Hellenic National Congresses.
- Audit presentations in Colorectal Department of Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
