Ioannis Mavrikakis OPTHALMOLOGIST

• Two PhD’s from the University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
• Effects of transient myocardial ischemia on the ventricular defibrillation threshold. An experimental study. (06.1998 – 06.2005)
• Contribution in the management of ophthalmic complications in facial nerve palsy.(07.2009 – 03.2013)

Member:

• American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• British Oculoplastic Surgery Society
• Hellenic Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Hellenic Ophthalmological Society
• World Society of Anti Aging Medicine
• European Association for Vision and Eye Research
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• International Thyroid Eye Disease Society

Journal Reviewer:

• Ophthalmology
• Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
• Eye
• Orbit
• Rheumatology 
• Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
• Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology
• Journal of Ophthalmology

Editorial Board:

• Orbit
• World Journal of Ophthalmology
• Journal of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery

• Resident, Eastbourne District General Hospital, Eastbourne, United Kingdom, 02.2000 – 07.2001 
• Resident, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Brighton, United Kingdom, 08.2001 – 07.2003 
• Resident, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, United Kingdom, 08.2003 – 01.2004
• Oculoplastic & Lacrimal Fellow, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Brighton, United Kingdom, 02.2004 – 06.2004 
• Oculoplastic & Lacrimal Fellow, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, United Kingdom 07.2004 – 06.2005
• Orbital Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 07.2005 – 06.2006
• Scientific Associate, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece, 09.2006 -08.2009 
• Scientific Associate, G. Gennimatas General Hospital, Athens, Greece, 02.2014 – 01.2015
• Private Practice, since 09.2006
• Consultant, “Hygeia” Hospital, since 08.2012

Education Experience:
Dr Mavrikakis has participated as an instructor or senior instructor in the following courses:

• Oculoplastic surgery for cataract and refractive surgeons European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) Annual Congress, 5-9 September 2015, Barcelona, Spain
• Oculoplastic Surgery & Cataract & Refractive Surgery. Friends or Enemies? 29th International Congress of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS), 26 February-1 March 2015, Athens, Greece 
• Facial nerve palsy: Anatomy, etiology, evaluation, and managementAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting, 16-19 November 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER) 2011, 5-8 October 2011, Crete, Greece American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting, 16-19 October 2010, Chicago, Illinois European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER) 2010, 6-9 October 2010, Crete, Greece
• Non invasive techniques in aesthetic ophthalmology 46th Panhellenic Ophthalmological Congress, 23-26 May 2013, Messinia, Greece
• Facial nerve palsy: Diagnosis and treatment 27th International Congress of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS), 28 February-3 March 2013, Athens, Greece
• Tearing after cataract surgery. Investigation and treatment. 26th International Congress of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS), 1-4 March 2012, Athens, Greece
• Minimally invasive aesthetic ophthalmology: Botulinum toxin and fillers. 44th Panhellenic Ophthalmological Congress, 18-22 May 2011, Athens, Greece 25th International Congress of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS), 24-27 February 2011, Athens, Greece
• Dry eye, meibomian gland dysfunction and anterior segment surgery 25th International Congress of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS), 24-27 February 2011, Athens, Greece
• Botox and aesthetic ophthalmology 43rd Panhellenic Ophthalmological Congress, 26-30 May 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece 
• Important preoperative considerations in anterior segment procedures: The oculoplastic standpoint
• 24th International Congress of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS), 4-7 February 2010, Athens, Greece

• Eyelid, Lacrimal & Orbital Diseases & Surgery

• International Ophthalmologist Education Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2008
• Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2010
• President of the Hellenic Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (2014-2016) 
• Committee Member of the Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (2014-2018).

• Dr Mavrikakis has contributed a book chapter entitled ‘Orbital Masses and Tumors’ in the Orbit section of the ‘Encyclopedia of the Eye’ by Elsevier, published in May 2010.
• Dr Mavrikakis has translated in Greek the book ‘A Manual of Systematic Eyelid Surgery’, third edition, by J.R.O. Collin, the first Greek oculoplastic manual published in November 2012.

Dr Mavrikakis has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, some of which are:

• Mavrikakis I, Rootman J. Diverse clinical presentations of orbital sarcoid. Am J Ophthalmol. 2007 
• Mavrikakis I, Heran MK, White V, Rootman J. The role of thrombosis as a mechanism of exacerbation in venous and combined venous lymphatic vascular malformations of the orbit. Ophthalmology. 2009 
• Liarakos VS, Boboridis KG, Mavrikakis E, Mavrikakis I. Management of canalicular obstructions. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2009 
• Mavrikakis I, Georgiadis T, Fragiadaki K, Sfikakis PP. Orbital lobular panniculitis in Weber-Christian disease: sustained response to anti-TNF treatment and review of the literature. Surv Ophthalmol. 2010 
• Rootman DB, Mavrikakis I, Connors JM, Rootman J. Primary, unilateral ocular adnexal lymphoma: disease progression and long-term survival. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 
• Shen S, Chan A, Sfikakis PP, Hsiu Ling AL, Detorakis ET, Boboridis KG, Mavrikakis I. B-Cell Targeted Therapy With Rituximab for Thyroid Eye Disease: Closer to the Clinic. Surv Ophthalmol. 2013