Profile

• 1994 – 2000: MB, BS (equivalent) Medical Distinction, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki
• 1994 - 2000: Diploma, Military Medical Academy
• 2010: Board Certified in the specialty of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Greece)

Candidate for a PhD (University of Athens). Title: The role of SphK1 in patients with non small lung cancer

Professional Experience

• 2003 – 2006: Senior Trainee, General Surgery Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece
• 2006 – 2008: Trainee, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Thoracic and Vascular Department, Evaggelismos General Hospital
• 2008 – 2010: Senior Trainee, Cardiac Surgery Department2^nd Cardiac Surgery Department, Evaggelismos General Hospital
• 2010 – 2012: Attending Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeon, Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece
• 2012 – 2014: Attending Cardiac Surgeon,401 General Military Hospital, Athens, Greece
• 2014 - 2016: Fellow in Cardiac Surgery Department (Aortic surgery) – Lankenau Medical Center Philadelphia , PA, USA
• 2016 – present: Attending Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeon Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece

• Thoracoscopic surgery
• Minimal invasive resection of mediastinum tumors
• Aortic surgery

Chief of War Navy Ordinance Award for morals and scientific competence for the first Cardiac surgery procedure at Naval and Veterans Hospital of Greece

Recent Publications

• 2010 Acute Aortic Syndromes: Surgical, Endovascular or Medical Treatment?
• 2010 Creating arteriovenous fistula using an automatic anastomotic device
• 2010 Endovascular treatment for acute traumatic aortic injury: mid-term results
• 2011 Papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve in a β-thalassemia patient
• 2013 Aortic redissection after glue repair: a rare echocardiography finding
• 2013 Sinotubular junction remodeling with Aortic Cusp repair. An alternative to Bental operation for ascending aortic aneurysm with Aortic Valve Regurgitation

• Athens Medical Association
• Member of Greek Cardiothoracic Surgeons Society
• Member of the Greek Union of Military Doctors