Greece

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON-HAND SURGEON
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, FACULTY OF MEDICINE,
SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY , 41500 LARISSA, GREECE

Born in Athens, Greece.
Married

Current Position

• Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon
• Certified Hand and Upper Extremity Surgeon
• Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessalia, Larissa, Greece
  

Previous Academic Affiliations

• 2001-2006 Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of   Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessalia, Larissa, Greece
• 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessalia
• 2012-2017 Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessalia, Larissa, Greece
• May 2017-today Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessalia, Larissa, Greece
• September 2018 Visiting Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Education      

• Medical School of University of Ioannina, Greece (graduate 1990)
• Medical School of University Pierre Marie Curie-Paris 6, France (Diplome Universitaire de Chirurgie de la Main et du Membre Superieur 1998)
• Medical School of University of Ioannina, Greece (PhD Thesis 1997)
  

Training

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical School of University of Ioannina, Greece 

Fellowships

• “Institut de la Main”, Paris, FRANCE (1997-1998)
• Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA (1998-2001)

Languages                   

Greek, English, French

Scholarships:  5

• National Foundation Scholarship for Medical School
• Onassis Foundation Scholarship for postdoctoral research in USA
• NATO Foundation Scholarship for postdoctoral research in USA
• “I. Agnantis” Scholarship for postdoctoral research in USA
• Travelling fellowship of Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
  

Scientific awards: 17

Grants awarded: 16

Member of Scientific Societies: 19 (7 national & 12 international)

President of Scientific Societies

• Hellenic Society for Surgery of the Hand (year 2007)
• Hellenic Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (year 2017)
  

International Delegations

• FESSH (Federation of European Societies of Surgery of the Hand) Hand Trauma

Committee (HTC) Representative since 2009

• Member of Accreditation Committee of HTC/FESSH since 2012
• National Delegate at FESSH (Federation of European Societies of Surgery of the Hand) since 2019

Reviewer: in 11 Scientific Journals

Μember of Editorial Board: of 2 books and 2 scientific journals 

Meetings attended: 395

Lectures/R. tables/debates: 403

Oral presentations: 397

Posters: 136

Publications: 129
International: 116 (108 appear in pubmed)
Greek: 13

Published abstracts: 181

Book chapters: 33

Book: 1

Citations (October 2019): 3155 (Scopus) 4124 (Google Scholar)

H-index (October 2019): 28 (Scopus) 33 (Google Scholar) 

Scientific interests

Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery; Reconstructive Microsurgery; Congenital anomalies; Skeletal Defects; Osteonecrosis; Osteoporosis; Musculoskeletal Infections; Basic Science

Principal investigator in studies that lead to publication in peer-reviewed journals:

• Experimental model of osteonecrosis with the use of cryosurgery (Surgical Forum, 2000);
• Surgical anatomy of spinal accessory nerve (J Hand Surgery, 2001);
• Osteogenesis from vascularized periosteum and bone grafts (J Trauma 2002);
• Heterotopic ossification in patients with osteonecrosis treated with FVFG (J Arthroplasty, 2003);
• Vascularized periosteal flaps in upper extremity surgery (J Trauma, 2005 and Injury, 2006 and Microsurgery 2009 and Journal of Hand Surg Am 2010);
• MRI for the evaluation of the scaphoid disorders (Eur J Radiology, 2004 and Radiology, 2007);
• Heparin induced thrombosis (J Trauma, 2007) (ongoing research);
• Core decompression following FVFG in osteonecrosis (J Arthroplasty, 2007);
• Upper extremity infections (Scand J Plast Surgery, 2008 and J Hand Surg, 2008 and Med Science Monitor, 2008 and Orthop Rev 2012 and 3 book chapters);
• Growth Factors/BMPs for the treatment of nonunions and skeletal defects and femoral head osteonecrosis (Bone Joint J 2014 and Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Hellenica 2014 and Bone Joint J 2015);
• Periosteum and fracture healing (J Bone Joint Surg Br 2012);
• Gene expression in femoral heads of patients with osteonecrosis (Dis Markers 2012 and Mol Biol Rep 2013 and Exp Mol Pathol 2013);
• Hand tumors (J Hand Surg Am 2011 and Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 2014);
• Quality of life after major joint arthroplasties (BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2012 and BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2015 and 1 book chapter);
• Association of specific polymorphisms and biochemical factors with osteoporosis/osteoporotic fractures (Nature Genetics 2012 and Calcif Tissue Int 2012 and J Bone Miner Res 2012 and Hum Genomics 2013 and Nature 2015);
• E-xtremity: a telemedicine system for mangling extremity injuries (ITAB 2010);
• Online performance support environment for minimally invasive orthopaedic Surgery (OnLineOrtho) (abstract in JBJS-Orthop Proceedings 2011);
• Tackling Arthritis using a Biomechanical and Systems Biology approach (Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011 and Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2014);
• OrthoBioMed: e-learning project: Osteosynthesis for surgical management of fractures for orthopedic surgeons and biomedical engineers (ongoing research)

Co-investigator in 5 studies:

• Potential aetiological factors in osteonecrosis (Eur J Clin Investigation, 2000);
• MRI findings in transient osteoporosis (Eur J Radiology, 2004);
• Intermittent Pneumatic Compression in fracture healing (J Orthop Trauma, 2005);
• Treatment of scaphoid nonunions (J Hand Surgery, 2001 and J Hand Surgery, 2006 and J Hand Surgery, 2006 and  Plast Recon Surgery, 2007 and J Hand Microsurg, 2009 and J Hand Surgery, 2014 and 2 book chapters);
• Synovial fluid metabolites in osteonecrosis (Rheumatology, 2007).