Basic Medical Studies: Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (AUT) Medical School (graduation: 1981)
Ph. D : “Single neuron recording of brain stem respiratory neuronal activity, under ischemic conditions”. Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, 1993
Residency in Neurosurgery: General Hospital of Athens, 1993 (Head, D. Rologis)
Postgraduate studies: 1993-1995: Training in Endovascular procedures (Interventional Neuroradiology) in: 1) University of Zurich, Switzerland (Head, Prof. Anton Valavanis) 2) UCLA Medical Center, USA, (Head, Prof. Fernando Vinuela, Tutor: Prof. Guido Guglielmi)
In 1996, he started to routinely perform endovascular and microneurosurgical procedures at Hygeia Hospital in Athens.
Since 2001, he is the Director and Head of the Neurosurgical Department, in the same hospital. The Hygeia Hospital Neurovascular Center is the greatest reference center for neurovascular diseases and the only one reference center for bypass surgery, in Greece.
Educational Activities:
He often participates in international conferences as invited speaker and he is involved in many publications for various neurovascular disease topics. He is also involved in the faculty of European hands-on micro-anastomosis training courses at Vienna University and he runs an annual “microvascular neurosurgery” hands-on training course, in Athens, Greece.