Profile

• 09/10/2000 – 19/01/2007 Doctor of Medicine, Medical Degree, 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.

• 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.

• Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
• General Surgery
• Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

• 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.

• 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 063498
• 2022  Member of the Hellenic Society of Hernia

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.