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Education/Academic Experience

Apr 1995 – Oct 2001                Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Mar 2007                                   IELTS Certificate (Overall Band Score 7.5)

Feb 2011                                    CCST in Urology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

June 2012                                  Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU)

Sept 2014                                  Fellow in Andrology/Reconstructive Surgery (Mr Giulio Garaffa,         UCLH / Mid-Essex)

Apr 2016                                   Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS Eng)

Oct 2018                                   Honorary Senior Lecturer St Andrews University

Sep 2019                                   Urology ChM Tutor in Andrology and Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIMS) University of Edinburgh

Aug 2020                                  European Union Expert Panel Member of Medical Devices (EU EXPAMED)

Current and Previous appointments

Current appointment

May 2022- Present         Consultant Urologist German Oncology Centre, Limassol, Cyprus

Previous appointments

Nov16- May 2021       Consultant Urological Surgeon Victoria/ Queen Margaret Hospital Fife, Scotland.

Nov 2012 - Oct 2016      Consultant Urologist Broomfield Hospital, Mid-Essex Hospitals Trust 

Jan 2011 - Oct 2012      Urology Clinical Research Fellow, Spelialist Registrar Level), Bristol Royal Infirmary, United Bristol Hospitals Trust

Dec 2009 -Dec 2010      Urology Resident G. Gennimatas Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Duties

• Performing routine and major Penile / Urethral Reconstruction as well as Core Urology procedures twice weekly at Victoria and Queen Margaret Hospitals (Green light prostatectomy, Urolift Service lead, Prostate template biopsies, General urology)

Consultant Urologist providing and supervising the services of andrology and urethral reconstruction surgery. Also covering a general urology one stop outpatient clinics three times per week (Victoria and Queen Margaret Hospitals).

Participation in once weekly local cancer and once monthly specialist male uro-genital reconstruction MDT meetings (Honorary contract at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh) as well as grand ward rounds.

Undergraduate student trainer and member of examiners panel at St Andrews University, Scotland.

Participation in 1:9 on call Urology Consultant rota.

Research

• Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy (NHS Fife) lead investigator. A prospective, multicentre study with subgroup randomisation into MRI-U/S image fusion guided prostate biopsies and routine transrectal U/S guided biopsies.  (MULTIPROS Study)
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• Broomfield Hospital (MEHT) sub-investigator. A pragmatic multicentre randomised superiority trial of open urethroplasty versus endoscopic urethrotomy. (OPEN Study)
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• Broomfield Hospital (MEHT) sub-investigator. A Multicentre randomised controlled trial of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy, as first treatment option, compared with direct progression to ureteroscopic treatment, for ureteric stones. (TISU
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• Bristol Royal Infirmary sub-investigator. A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial of the Use of Drug Therapy in the Management of Symptomatic Ureteric Stones in Hospitalised Patients. (SUSPEND Study)
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• Bristol Royal Infirmary sub-investigator. A Multicentre Prospective Single Arm Intervention Trial Evaluating Focal Therapy using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (Sonablate 500) for Localised Prostate Cancer. (HIFU INDEX Study)
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• Bristol Royal Infirmary sub-investigator, A Randomised Controlled Trial to Determine the Effect of Decapeptyl on Reduction of Prostate Volume Pre-Radiotherapy Compared with Standard Therapy (Zoladex). (EDVART Study)

Teaching Experience

Fife Simulation BPH Course Fascilitator (Scottish Urology Training Programme, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dumfermline Fife)

Urology Simulation boot camp Faculty member (St James's University Hospital, Leeds)

General Practitioner Urology Training Programme Fascilitator (ScotGem)

Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) assessor (St Andrews University Medical School)

Teaching (case-based discussions) and trainee supervision in theatres (East Anglia / East of   Scotland Deaneries trainees)

FY1 Doctors Urology teaching Bristol Royal Infirmary (University Bristol Hospitals Trust)

Undergraduate teaching of medical students in General Hospital of the city of Drama, Greece

Anatomy, Physiology and First Aid to Undergraduate nursing students

• Education: 
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• 2001-2007: University of Ioannina Medical School, Greece.
• 2007: Degree in Medicine.
• 2013: Doctoral degree from the Medical School of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt (Dr. Med)
• 09.2016 – Today: Master’s in Healthcare Business Studies.

Professional experience:

04.2009 – 04.2013: Resident in the Department for Radiation Oncology, Klinikum Offenbach

05.2013 – 12. 2015: Senior physician in the Department for Radiation Oncology, Klinikum Offenbach

• 01.2016 – 06.2017: Senior physician in the Department of interventional Radiation Oncology, Medical Center Athens
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• 07.2017 – Today: Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus.

Education

09 / 2004 – 07 / 2006                Movie Director School, ANT1 Movie School Athens, Greece, Degree “Television Director”, grade point average: B

09 / 2006 – 08 / 2008                Medical School, Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary, Medical preliminary examination (Physikum), grade point average: A

10 / 2008 – 05 / 2013                Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, State examination in medicine, grade point average: A

02/ 2009 – 02/2012                   Institute of Pharamcology and Toxicology I, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, Doctoral thesis, grade: summa cum laude

05 / 2018                                      Basic and advanced course in German drug law and GCP, Clinical Trials Unit, Medical Center - University of Freiburg

01 / 2019                                      Board certification: Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology

03 / 2020                                      Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Habilitation (Postdoctoral lecture qualification)

09 / 21 – 08 / 23                         MHBA, Friedrich Alexander University, Nuernberg, Germany

07 / 2022                                      Completion of ISO 9001:2015 training, Nicosia, Cyprus

Professional Career

09 / 2013 – 01 / 2019               Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Residency                                                

07 / 2017 – 07 / 2020               Bertha-Ottenstein programme, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, Clinician Scientist

Since 06 / 2019                          Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Consultant

01 / 2021 – 12 / 2022                Bertha-Ottenstein programme, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, Advanced Clinician Scientist

01 / 2021 – 12 / 2021                 Head of the section “Interventional Radiation Oncology”, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany

Since 01 / 2022                         Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Prostate cancer research group leader

Since 01 / 2022                          German Medical Institute, Limassol, Cyprus, Vice Medical Director

Professional Memberships and Distinctions

2010           Sanofi-Aventis poster prize, Annual meeting of the German Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology 2010, Mainz, Germany      

2017           Poster prize, Annual meeting of the German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) 2017, Berlin, Germany

2019           Poster prize, Uro-Oncological Symposium 2019, Magdeburg, Germany

2020           Invited member of the German expert panel for prostate cancer of the German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO)

2020           Herman-Holthusen Award, German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO)

2021           Invited member of the ESTRO-ACROP guideline committee for prostate cancer

2021           Best Abstract, EMUC congress 2021, Athens, Greece

2023           Annual ARO study price for the HypoFocal-SBRT study from the German Cancer Foundation

2023           Invited member of the ESTRO focus group “Urology”