Languages spoken Greek(native),English,French,Italian,Hungarian

EDUCATION

1989 ​: 2nd High School: Halandri, Athens, Greece.

1989-1996

: Medical School, Albert SG Medical University
​: Medical School Graduation: Cum laude. MD
​: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

​Medical Center Houston Texas (elective courses)

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Evangelismos Hospital Athens, Greece.
(Dr Bellenis Head of department of Cardiothoracic Surgery)

October 2007: Board Certified in Cardiothoracic Surgery Greece
May 2005: PhD nom.Athens Medical University title “Stent grafting of the thoracic aorta”
November 2005-November 2006 EACTS EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY (LEVELS 1,2,3)
June 2006: St. Mary’s Hospital UK (Postgraduate course in Stent grafting)
October 2006 General Medical Council full registration. (United Kingdom)
November 2005 until now : Athens Medical Centre , currently Head of Department of Thoracoscopic Surgery
2007-today Various seminars and postgraduate courses in Thoracoscopic Surgery

Pioneered Uniportal VATS in Greece since 2015

October 2012: European Board Certified FETCS
2019 European Board of Thoracic Surgeons FEBTS
2021 CERTIFIED IN ROBOTIC Da vinci xi in Strasbourg France

Associate editor in Frontiers in Surgery

SOCIETIES- Memberships:

Member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons EACTS Member of the Member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons STS
Member of the Greek Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons