Vassilios Kontojannis NEUROSURGEON

Education & Academic Qualifications

Academics

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering Department, Imperial College of London,UK

Education

Board Certification in Neurosurgery, Hellenic Ministry of Health
University of Milan, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Graduation degree 100/110, Graduation thesis: “Erythropoietin, a new hope for the treatment of serious degenerative diseases of the central nervous system” (Awarded Distinction)

Postgraduate training

Cadaveric Instructional Course-Skull base approaches, 01-02nd June 2021, Athens, Greece
Cadaveric Instructional Course-Posterior Spinal Instrumentation (Occiput to Pelvis), 18-19th April 2016, Newcastle
Neuro- Workshop 15 March 2016, London, UK
“Response of St Mary’s Hospital in Major Trauma” St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK, 13 January 2016
“Copyright how to avoid infrigement?”, Ιmperial College of London, 2016
“Copyright for researchers”, Ιmperial College of London, London , 2016
“Criminal cases- the pitfalls for health professionals” 25th of May, 2016, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College, Healthcare NHS Trust
St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust, ‘’ICP Monitors and Decompressive Craniectomy’’, 13th January 2015
St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust, ‘’Clinical Trials in Neurosurgery’’, 8th October 2015
St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust, Course ‘’Trauma Team Member Course’’, 10th of March 2015
‘’Nutrition support and nasogastric tube placement’’ St Mary’s Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust
St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust, Lecture ‘’Paediatric Cranial Trauma’’, 11th March 2015
St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust, Trauma Education and Emergency Management ‘’Head Injury: Opening the Pandora’s Boχ?’’, 19th of December 2012, London
“Fire Safety-Clinical and High risk Areas’’ St Mary’s Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College of London, Course ‘’Becoming an Effective Researcher”, 2013
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College of London, Course ‘’Introduction to Statistical Thinking’’, 2013
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College of London, Course ‘’Myer Briggs: Introduction’’,2103
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College of London, Course ‘’Academic Writing Skill’’, 2013
“Invasive procedures Policy training St Mary’s Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust
‘’Safeguarding children Level 2’’ St Mary’s Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust
‘’Equality and Diversity- Creating a Culture of Respect’’ St Mary’s Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust
‘’Adult in hospital Life Support’’ St Mary’s Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust
“Information Governance Foundation Training’’- Certificate of Achievement- St Mary’s Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust 06 March 2013
“Functional Neurosurgery” Greek Neurosurgical Society «Λειτουργική Νευροχειρουργική», 27th April 2009, Athens, Greece
“Dementia and treating options”, 13th November 2008, General Hospital of Athens “KAT”
“Treating emergencies in the field” 16-17th Αpril 2005, “Aretaiio” General Hospital of Athens
2003-2004 University Hospital of Milan “San Paolo”, Italy, Postgraduate Training

- Accident and Emergency Department
- Gynecology and Obstretics
- Paediatric department
- Internal Medicine

2002-2003 General Hospital of Treviglio, Milan, Italy, Postgraduate training in department of General Surgery, University of Milan
2002 University of Milan, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, hands on training – Principles of Traumatology
2001 University of Milan, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery – Clinical and Social aspects of Epilepsy
2001 University of Milan, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, hands on training – Vacular Emergencies
2000-2001 University of Milan, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Advance Life Support in Critical Patient
1999-2000 National and Capodistrian university of Athens – Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital “Evangelismos”, Socrates student exchange program

Doctoral thesis

Title ”Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury¨ December 2018, Supervisor Professor Martyn Boutelle, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, Supervisor Mark Wilson – Consultant Neurosurgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust , Imperial College of London, Bioengineering Department

Fellowship in Societies, Membership in Journal Editorial Committees

General Medical Practice (GMC)
Royal College of Surgeons
European Association of Neurosurgical Societies
COSBID – Co-operative Studies on Brain Injury Depolarisations
Member of Hellenic Neurosurgical Society

Editorial Boards

Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Hellenica
Clinical Neurophysiology Practice

AD-HOC REVIEWER for peer-reviewed international journals

Trauma

Work Experience

March 2021, Consultant, Hygeia Hospital
Consultant Neurosurgeon – Private Practice
2018-2019 Consulatnt Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Athens University Hospital “Attiko”
2016-2018 Spinal Clinical Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, St Mary’s – Charing Cross Hospitals, Imperial Collgege Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
2014-2016 Neurotrauma Clinical Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, St Mary’s – Charing Cross Hospitals, Imperial Collgege Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
2012-2014 Clinical Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, St Mary’s – Charing Cross Hospitals, Imperial Collgege Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
2011-2012 Clinical Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, Charing Cross Hospitals, Imperial Collgege Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

Clinical & Research Interest

Clinical Interest: Spine and Brain Oncology, Spine (Trauma and Degenerative), Neurotrauma, Robotics in Spine, application of Endoscopy in Brain and Spine, Hydrocephalus

Research Interest: Brain trauma, Neuromonitoring

Honors & Awards

Gordon & Slaghter Foundation for the results in the detection of spreading depolarisations using near infrared light”, London, 2013

Recent Publications

The Surgery Journal, “Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy: A Single-Center Experience in Greece.” Kontojannis V, Papadopoulos E, Ydreos J, Isaakidis D, Gavra MM, Boviatsis EJ.Surg J (N Y). 2020 May 7;6(2):e71-e76. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1708864. 2020 Apr.
Brain Injury Journal, “Detection of intracranial hematomas in the emergency department using near infrared spectroscopy.”Kontojannis V, Hostettler I, Brogan RJ, Raza M, Harper-Payne A, Kareem H, Boutelle M, Wilson M.Brain Inj. 2019;33(7):875-883. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2019.1610796.
Journal of Spine Surgery, “Case series of posterior instrumentation for repair of burst lumbar vertebral body fractures with entrapped neural elements.”Kareem H, Raza MH, Kontojannis V, Nimer A, Tsang K.J Spine Surg. 2018 Jun;4(2):374-382. doi: 10.21037/jss.2018.06.03.
Acta Neurochirurgica, “Case report on the spontaneous resolution of a traumatic intracranial acute subdural haematoma: evaluation of the guidelines.”Hostettler IC, Murahari S, Raza MH, Kontojannis V, Tsang K, Kareem H, Jones B, Wilson M.Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2018 Jul;160(7):1311-1314. doi: 10.1007/s00701-018-3556-2. Epub 2018 May 11.
British Journal of Neurosurgery, ’’Retrospective case series of posterior instrumentation for repair of burst lumbar vertebral body fractures with entrapped neural elements’’ H. Kareem, V. Kontojannis and M. WilsonBritish Journal of Neurosurgery, ISSUE 30, NO 5, September 2016, 478-505, ISSN02688697
Brain Injury Journal, ’’Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to detect traumatic intracranial haematoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis’’Dr Robert J. Brogan, Mr Vassilios Kontojannis, Dr Bhavin Garara, Mr Hani J. Marcus, Mr Mark H. Wilson, Brain Inj 2017;31(5):581-588. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2017.1287956. Epub 2017 Apr 25.Imperial Neurotrauma Centre, The Major Trauma Centre, Imperial College London BRAIN INJURY JOURNAL
British Journal of Neurosurgery, ’’Preliminary results on detection of Spreading Depolarisations using Near Infrared Spectroscopy’’Vassilios Kontojannis, Daniel Leff, Felipe Orihuela-Espina, Anna Blasi, Anthony J Strong, Martyn G Boutelle, Mark Wilson, British Journal of Neurosurgery, ISSUE 30.2, April 2016, ISSN02688697
Journal of Neurosurgery, “Acinetobacter baumannii”Sakellaridis N., Kontojannis V.JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY, 2013 Dec;119(6):1656. doi: 10.3171/2010.7.JNS10577. Epub 2013 Sep 27.
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, ‘’Paraganglioma of Cauda Equina – Case Report and Review of the Literature’’Konstantinos Vlachos, Dimitrios Panagopoulos, Antonis Androulis, Christos Kelesis, Michalis Vasilakis, Sotiris Veranis, Vasilis Kontogiannis, Ilias Sourtzis, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Abstract Article ID 58654, Abstract: 2009 Aug 30