Training
Graduated in medicine from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1984. He trained in general surgery at the 1st Surgical Clinic of Athens General State Hospital (1986–1989) and in paediatric surgery at the “Agia Sofia” Children’s Hospital, Athens (1989–1993), and earned his doctorate (PhD) from the University of Athens Medical School. Further training in neonatal anorectal anomalies and paediatric endoscopy at the University Paediatric Surgery Clinic in Münster, Germany (1990), and, as a Fulbright scholar with Harvard Medical International, in neonatal and infant thoracic surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital (2003).
Main areas of practice
- Paediatric surgery
- Neonatal surgery
- Paediatric urology and hypospadias repair
- Non-surgical treatment of infantile haemangiomas
Academic & professional
Served at the Paediatric Surgery Department of Archbishop Makarios III Hospital, Nicosia, from 1995 until June 2023, latterly as Deputy Director. In 2010, with the European Dermatology Society, he introduced the treatment of infantile haemangiomas with beta-blockers in Cyprus, and has since treated about 3,000 infants without surgery. Member of the Paediatric Surgery Specialists Committee (2001–2023) and of the Board of the State Health Services Organisation (OKYpY); in private practice within GESY.
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