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Paraskeva Kyriakos

Specialty
Brain, Neurovascular, Complex Spine & Spinal Cord Surgeon
Medical School

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Internship

General Hospital of Thessaloniki “George Papanikolaou”

Residency

Neurosurgery

Fellowships

Oxford University Hospitals-Complex & Reconstructive Spinal Surgery.

Adult, Pediatric Deformity & Tumour Surgery

John Radcliffe Hospital

Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital

Post Doctorate Training

St Barnabas Hospital, SBH Health System, The Bronx, New York, USA: Rotation Fellow in Neurosurgery

Certification
  • Granted of a License to practice qualification of Medical Specialty in Neurosurgery after successful participation in the Panhellenic Board Examination by the Chair of Panhellenic Medical Association – Board Certified Neurosurgeon. 25 July 2019
  • Successfully passed the European Board Examination in Neurological Surgery granted by The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies and the European Board of Neurological Surgery – EANS. 27 January 2019
  • Hands on Workshop Microvascular Anastomosis Techniques. Athens 4-9 November 2019
  • 33rd Neurosurgical Panhellenic Conference. Thessaloniki 27-30 June 2019
  • EANS training course Vascular Neurosurgery, Jerusalem 2019
  • EANS training course Spine and Peripheral nerves, Edinburgh 2018
  • European Spine Course Diploma on the basis of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Training Course-Spine. 2018
  • Observation of Interventional Endovascular techniques (Nicosia General Hospital. Professor Andreou A.) 2015-2018
  • Spine Hands-on Cadaveric Workshop.  1st European KISCO Course. Bordeaux, France. 22nd September 2017
  • EANS training course Head Injury & Functional Neurosurgery, Vilnius 2017
  • EANS training course Brain Tumors/Neuro-oncology Neurosurgery, Sofia 2016
  • EANS training course Midas Rex Drilling Course, Sofia 2016
  • Cologne International Skull Base Course. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Department of Neurosurgery. Uniklinik Koln. 23-25 November 2016
  • 30th Neurosurgical Panhellenic Conference, Volos 16-18 June 2016
  • Advanced technique training session of the artificial cervical disc for Cervical Disk Arthroplasty. ARTWORLD Medical. 16-17 March 2016
  • Specialty advanced technique training session of the Pediguard dynamic surgical guidance probe. ARTWORLD Medical. 16-17 March 2016
  • Completion of two day specialty advanced technique training session including live surgery of expandable stand-alone PLIF Implant system. ARTWORLD Medical. 16-17 March 2016.
  • Observation of Intra-Extracranial By-pass techniques (Hygeia Hospital, Athens. Professor Andreou A.) 2016
  • Observation of Deep Brain Stimulation (Aretaeio Private Hospital, Nicosia) 2016
  • Online sessions supported by the Greek Neurosurgical Company (Professor Andreou A.) 2016
  • 29th Neurosurgical Panhellenic Conference, Athens 28-30 March 2015
  • 14th Pancyprian Surgical Conference. Cyprus 2014
  • ATLS “Advanced Trauma Life Support”. Cyprus 2014
Academic Interests
  1. Brain Bypass-Aneurysm-AVM surgery
  2. Pediatric and Adult Kypho-Scoliosis surgery
  3. Endoscopic Skull Base & Pituitary surgery
  4. Brachial Plexus and Peripheral nerve surgery
  5. Brain Tumor Surgery
  6. Complex and Reconstructive Spinal surgery
Professional Highlights

1)Clinical Fellow in Complex & Reconstructive Spinal Surgery

Adult, Pediatric Deformity & Tumour Surgery

2) Rotation Fellow in Neurosurgery

SBH Health System,The Bronx, New York, USA

3) European Board Examination in Neurological Surgery, Jerusalem, Israel: Part I

4) Member of EANS: European Association of Neurosurgical Societies

5) 4-year completion: EANS training

6) Diplomate of the Panhellenic Board of Neurosurgery

7) Authorship: (Author of the Surgical Chapter)

            Contribution to the textbook “Neuroanatomy & Neurophysiology for Speech and Hearing Sciences” by Plural Publishing Inc.

J.Anthony Seikel PhD, Kostas Konstantopoulos PhD,  David G. Drumright BS

Surgical Case studies:

  • Occipital Lobe Glioma and the relation to the Calcarine Cortex, Cuneate Gyrus and Lingual Gyri
  • Malignancy at Broca’s area
  • Parasellar tumor and speech contribution
  • Craniopharyngioma and the related speech and language consequences of compression
  • Cerebellopontine angle tumor/Ataxic Dysarthria

8) 2015: Medical students training (Clinical and Academic) in cooperation with the University of Cyprus Medical School regarding “Surgical Anatomy of Sellar and Parasellar region, Radiographic imaging, Preoperative Ophthalmologic Evaluation, Transcranial Approaches – Trans-sphenoidal Approach”

9) 2014: Honorary Lecturer. Teaching and training students of St George’s University of London Medical Programme delivered in Cyprus by the «University of Nicosia Medical School»

Publications

Primary Ewing Sarcoma of the axis-C2. A case report and the review of the literature. Paraskeva K, et al. Neurol Neurochir Pol. Aug 2018

Brainstem dermoid cyst Rupture With Hydrocephalus in a Child. Antoniades E, Themistocleous M, Drosos E, Giakoumettis D, Paraskeva K, Georgis P.A, Sfakianos G. Oxf Med Case Reports. Sep 2017