Profile

• Medical Degree
  • Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland 
  • University of Patras Medical School, Greece

• Specialty Education
  • Air Force Hospital, Athens, Greece: Residency in Cardiology and Coronary Care Unit
  • University of Athens Medical School, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece: Residency in General Surgery
  • Evagelismos General Hospital: Residency in Orthopedics and Neurosurgery
  • Texas Heart Institute, St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston Texas, USA: Clinical Fellow in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece: PhD

• From 1998 to 2000: Director Cardiac Surgeon at Apollonian Hospital, Athens, Greece 
• From 2000 up to 2024: Director, Cardiac Surgeon, Head of Department of Cardiac Surgery at Euroclinic of Athens, Greece
• From 2025 up to the present: Director, Cardiac Surgeon, Head of Department of Cardiac Surgery at IASO General Clinic, Athens, Greece
• President in International and Greek Cardiac Surgery Scientific Sessions 
• Invited Lecturer in International and Greek Cardiac Surgery Scientific Meetings
  

• Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS)
• Total Arterial Myocardial Revascularization (Bypass)
• Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) 
• Fenestrated Endovascular Aortic Repair (FEVAR)
• Mitral Valve Repair
• Aortic Valve Repair
• Tricuspid Valve Repair
• Cardiac Valves Replacement
• Aneurysms and Dissections of Ascending Aorta, Aortic Arch and Descending Aorta
• Left Ventricular Aneurysm Repair 
• Congenital Cardiac Surgery in Adults
• Cardiac Tumors

• Outstanding doctoral thesis, PhD
• Outstanding Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA 
• Grant, from Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA, to the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 
• Grant, from Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA, to the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Honorary Diploma, Fthiotidos Society, NY, USA
• Center of Excellence of Total Arterial Myocardial Revascularization

• Author  and Coauthor in Scientific Books and Papers in USA, Europe and Greece
  RECENT ARTICLE
  Prognostic factors and outcome in patients submitted into coronary artery bypass surgery with total arterial myocardial revascularization (TAMR)
  Elias Tassoulas, Dimitrios Tasoulas, Christos Papaconstantinou, Ioannis Chlorogiannis; Global Cardiology, 30 December 2024

• Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Society
• Cardiothoracic Surgery, CTS Network 
• Member of Friends of Methodist Hospital International Medical Society
• Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

• Aortic Surgery
• Arterial Grafts
• Atherosclerotic Plaque
• Intramyocardial coronary arteries
• Epicardial fat
• Mitral Valve Repair