In detail

Education

Spine Neurosurgical Center (Jul 2022 - Present)

Μέλος του CHUM( Centre hospitalier Université de Montréal), Ασκληπιείο Βούλας, Αθήνα

1st European neurosurgeon (except french origin) ever accepted to be part of the neurosurgical spine team of CHUM. Handling with complex MIS procedures. On-call duties for general neurosurgery. Taking part in research work as well as in residents' training. CHUM is the reference neurosurgical centre of Quebec,Canada. The Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) was recognized as Canada’s most innovative hospital in a ranking by the U.Sbased magazine Newsweek of the world’s top 250 Best Smart Hospitals for 2021.

Cerebral and spine complex operations (Jul 2015 - Feb 2016)

Hospital of Libramont, Βέλγιο

Junior Fellowship.Taking part in comlex neurosurgical operations (neurooncology, neurovascular and spine field).

Neurostimulation (May 2017 - May 2018)

Asklipieio Voulas, Athens

Εξειδίκευση στον τομέα της νευροδιέγερσης – σπαστικότητας.

Skull Base MSc (Sep 2019 - Mar 2021)

EKPA,Panepistimio Patron, Athens-Patra

Master obtained,concerning skull base theme.
Thesis : The role of preoperative embolization in meningiomas.
Grade: Excellent

Employment

Neurosurgeon (Jul 2022 - Present)

CHUM, Montreal

Working as neurosurgeon at the spine neurosurgical department of CHUM. Reference centre for all complex spine pathologies of Quebec,Canada. Taking part in on-call duties. Member of the research group as well as in residents'training. Taking part in more than 600 operations/year.

Head Neurosurgeon (Sep 2020 - Jun 2022)

Clinique Paul Picquet, Sens

Head Neurosurgeon at Clinique Paul-Picquet. Responsible for all the spine operations (area covered : >300000 residents). 1st Greek neurosurgeon,trained at Greece, who achieved this goal.

Neurosurgeon (Apr 2016 - Sep 2020)

Asklipieio Voulas, Athens

Working as neurosurgeon at the General Hospital 'Asklipieio Voulas' covering the majority of neurosurgical field (spine,trauma,neurooncology,neurostimulation). Head for all spine neurostimulating opeartions. On call duties for every neurosurgical pathology.

Achievements

1st Greek (trained at Greece) neurosurgeon accepted from Medical Council of France.
1st European (except french origin) neurosurgeon accepted from Medical Council of Canada,working at CHUM.

Membership 

• French Medical Council
• Medical Council of Canada
• Greek Medical Council

Membership to specialty societies

• Royal College of Surgeons of Canada
• French Neurosurgical society

Publications/Presentations/Courses

Publications/Presentations

Intrathecal baclofen pumb infection treated by adjunct intrareservoir teicoplanin instillation
Publisher: SURGICAL NEUROLOGY INERNATIONAL
Chronic subdural hematoma: Surgical management and outcome in 986
cases: A classification and regression tree approach - See more at:
http://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint_articles/chronicsubduralhematoma-surgical-management-and-outcome-in-986-cases
Publisher: SURGICAL NEUROLOGY INTERNATIONAL

•  25th Panhellenic Congress of Neurosurgery (Athens, Greece), 23-25/06/2011
  1) Concussion in children
  2) Epidemiological characteristics of patients with head injuries in central and eastern Crete.
  3) Cortical vascular dysplasia with spontaneous manifestation of an intracerebral and subdural intracerebral and subdural hematoma, simultaneously. Presentation of a case and reference to the international bibliography.
  4) Main causes of lumbar pain: fractures, infections, proliferation, degenerative diseases, herniated discs.
• 5th Panhellenic Congress of the Spine (Paphos, Cyprus), 27-30/10/2011
  Spontaneous subdural hematoma of the dorsal part of the spine spine. Presentation of a case and reference to the international bibliography international.
• 27th Panhellenic Congress of Neurosurgery (Athens, Greece) 27-29/06/2013
  Opportunistic infection of the central nervous system. Presentation of an interesting case.
• 2121st World Congress of Neurology (Vienna, Austria), 21- 26/09/2013
  Placement of a neurostimulator because of neuropathic pain, without preoperative trial.26 cases.
• EANS congress (Prague, 2014)
  4 poster presentations.
• 8th Panhellenic Congress of the Spine (Larissa). 24-26/10/2014
  2 poster presentations
• 9th World Congress of the International Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2015.
  1) Neurostimulation for the treatment of refractory coccydynia.
  2) Seven-year experience with intrathecal baclofen for the treatment of spasticity in severely disabled and vegetative patients after severe head injury. severe head injury.
• MASCC/ISOO annual meeting on supportive care in cancer, 2015.
  1) Pain management in pancreatic cancer via continuous intrathecal continuous intrathecal morphine.
  2) Solitary intramedullary spinal cord metastasis as a first presentation of lung cancer. lung cancer.
  3) A rare case of subdural empyema of achromobacter species in a patient in a patient with a hematologic malignancy.
  4) Intrathecal morphine pump infection successfully treated by by infusion of intrareservoir teicoplanin.
  5) Nocardial brain abscess in a patient with lymphoma.
• 34th ESRA Annual Meeting, 2015.
  1) Epidural spinal cord stimulation complicated by posterior cord syndrome. posterior.
  2) Spinal cord stimulation aborted by unexpected radiological findings.
• XXII World Congress of Neurology, 2015.
  Posterior communicating artery aneurysm complicated by anterior choroidal artery territory syndrome after embolization.
• 11th World Congress on Brain Injury, 2016.
  1) Traumatic hemiballism treated with intrathecal baclofen therapy. Report of a case.
  2) Diffuse axonal injury complicated by Benedict syndrome.
  3) Use of hemostatic gelatin matrix in the surgical management of traumatic brain injury. head trauma.
  4) Severe head trauma complicated by neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
  5) Decompressive craniectomy in severe head trauma: An ultima ratio measure or not?
  6) Chronic subdural hematoma in the elderly: A diagnosis not to be forgotten.
  7) Post-traumatic thrombosis of the transverse and sigmoid sinuses: A case case report.
  8) Isolated post-traumatic intraventricular hemorrhage after closed head trauma. closed head trauma: A case report.
  9) Early leukocytosis after closed head injury.
  10) The influence of epidemiologic and non-treatment variables on the neurological outcome of severe head injury.

Seminars - Chiropractic courses:
1) 5-8 May 2019 : EANS Training Course- Tumor
2) 27-30 May 2018 : EANS : EANS Training Course- Functional/Head Injuries
3) 7-10 May 2017 : Spine/ Peripheral Nerves
4) May 17-18, 2014: neurovascular and microsurgical anatomy of the skull base (Athens, Greece).
5) 22-24 janvier 2012 : 4éme séminaire de la partie cervicale de la colonne vertébrale (Tübingen, Germany).
6) 18-19 juillet 2011 : j'ai suivi des colloques d'anatomie neurochirurgicale (Cambridge, England).
7) 06-08 juillet 2011 : 5éme séminaire sur les approches neurochirurgicales (Tübingen, Germany).
8) 13-15 avril 2011 : Séminaire d'anatomie neurochirurgicale et d'approches chirurgicales (Athens, Greece).

Research
Μέρος όλου του παγκόσμιου ερευνητικού πεδίου του CHUM όσον αφορά την παθολογία της σπονδυλικής στήλης με σύγχρονες μεθόδους.