Education & Academic Qualifications

  • 2014, Doctor of Medicine, Medical School, University of Athens
  • 2013, Clinical fellow-scholar, Department of Organ Transplant and hepatobiliary surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital of Manhattan, New York, USA
  • 2013, Residency in General Surgery, 2nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Hospital, University of Athens
  • 2007-2008, Research fellow, Department of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplants, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, Florida, USA
  • 2003, Medical School Degree, University of Athens

Thesis

Correlation between microRNA expression patterns and clinical findings as well as prognosis of pancreatic cancer (Grade A)

 

Board Member and Editorial Boards

  • Regular member of the Hellenic Society of Surgery

  • Regular member of the Hellenic Society of Surgical Oncology

  • Regular member of the Hellenic Society of Pancreatic Diseases

  • Member of the Hellenic Society of Surgical Infections

  • Member of the Hellenic College of Surgeons

Professional experience

  • 2022-2024, Junior Registrar, Surgical Department, Sotiria General Hospital of Thoracic Diseases, Athens

  • 2021-2022, Academic Scholar, General Oncology Hospital of Kifisia, “Agioi Anargyroi”, Athens

  • 2020-2022, Scientific Fellow, Evgenidion Hospital, Athens

  • 2016-2019, Junior Registrar, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens

  • 2016, Associate, 3rd Department of Surgery, Errikos Dynan Hospital Center, Athens

  • 2014-2015, Junior Registrar, Aigion General Hospital

Educational experience

  • Students’ training, Medical and Nursing schools, University of Athens

  • General surgery residents’ training during my service in the NHS

Clinical and Research Interest

 Clinical interest

Surgical Oncology, Endocrine glands surgery,all types of hernias, breast surgery and emergency surgery

Research interest

  • Pancreatic cancer

  • Abdominal organs cancer

 

Awards

Leonidas Lantzounis Research Award/ Hellenic Medical Society of New York

Recent Publications

  • Case report: Heller myotomy combined with Dor’s procedure for neglected rupture of the cardio-esophageal corner

33rd Hellenic Congress of Surgery and International Forum 2023, Athens, Greece, 11th-15th November 2023

  • Total thyroidectomy with sternotomy for the treatment of immense submerged goiter

33rd Hellenic Congress of Surgery and International Forum 2023, Athens, Greece, 11th-15th November 2023

  • Expression of MicroRNAs in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer and Its PrognosticSignificance

Ioannis G. Papaconstantinou, MD, PhD,* Asimina Manta, MD,* Maria Gazouli, PhD, Anna Lyberopoulou, MD, PhD, Panagis M. Lykoudis, MD, MSc, DIC,* Giorgos Polymeneas, MD, PhD,* and Dionysios Voros, MD, PhD*.

2nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Hospital, University of Athens Medical School. 

Pub:Pancreas journal, 2013 January

  • A Review on the Role of MicroRNA in Biology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pancreatic  Adenocarcinoma Papaconstantinou IG, Lykoudis PM, Gazouli M, Manta A, Polymeneas G, Voros D. 

 2nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Hospital, University of  Athens Medical School. 

 Pub:Pancreas journal, 2012 July

  • Pelvic Floor Reconstruction After Major Surgery for Tumors.

  1. Voros, T. Theodosopoulos, G. Fragulidis, F. Nikolakopoulos, A. Manta, D   Dellaportas, G. Polymeneas.

32nd European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) Congress, Valencia Spain (September 2012)

  •  Parathyroid autotransplantation in extensive head and neck resections: case series report.

Athanasopoulos PG, Kyriazi M, Arkadopoulos N, Dellaportas D, Manta A, Theodosopoulos T,Tympa A, Vassileiou I, Smyrniotis V.

 2nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Hospital, University of Athens Medical School. 

 Pub:World J Surg Oncol. 2011 Nov

  • Arteriovenous malformation: An unusual cause of rectus sheath hematoma,

 following laparoscopic cholocystectomy.

 Dellaportas D, Athanasopoulos PG, Lykoudis P, Manta A, Koutoulidis V, Chatziioannou AN, Polymeneas G, Theodosopoulos T.  

 2nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Hospital, University of Athens Medical School. 

 Pub: Int J Surg Case 2011 Mar      

  Stamatakos M, Kontzoglou K, Stefanaki Ch, Tsaknaki S, Iannescu R, Manta A, Safioleas M. 

  Department of  Surgery, Laikon  Hospital, University of Athens. 

  Pub: Chirurgia (Bucur). 2009 Jan-Feb

  • Rescue of Intestinal Function in Patients Referred for Multivisceral and Intestinal Transplantation: 256

  E Island, A Manta, C Lyssikatos, T Kato, G Selvaggi, J Moon, D Levi, S Nishida, A Tzakis.

  Pub: Transplantation 01/2008

  • Uterus Transplantation in a Porcine Model.

  American Transplant Congress 2008, Toronto, Canada (May-June, 2008)