Specialty

Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Minimal Hip and Knee Surgeon

Medical School

Medical School of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace

Internship

General Hospital of Limnos

Residency

Amalia Fleming General Hospital, Athens

Fellowships

• Trauma Fellowship, Poole NHS Hospital, Poole, UK

• Minimal Invasive Hip and Knee Fellowship, Sky Ridge Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

Post Doctorate Training

• PhD: “The influence of autologous growth factors on tendon healing. An Experimental study in rabbits”. Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School

• MSc: “Metabolic Diseases of Bones”. Kapodistrian

Academic Interests

• Orthopaedic Trauma

• Minimal Invasive Hip and Knee Replacement

• Hip Revisions through anterior approach

• Knee revisions

• Unicopartmental knee replacement

• Shoulder replacement

• Regenerative treatments of joints and connective tissue conditions with Platelet Rich Plasma

Professional Highlights

• Scholarship founded by EFORT (European Foundation of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)

• 2010 Best Paper Award for the paper “Temporal and spatial expression of TGF-1 in an Achilles Tendon section model after application of platelet-rich plasma”, European Foot and Ankle Society

• Reviewer in the following Journals: Growth Hormone & IGF Research, The Knee, Acta Biomaterialia, International Journal ofOrthopaedics, Basic Research Journal of Medicine and Clinical Sciences, International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, International Research Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, International Research Journals of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, Universal Journal of Medicine
  & Dentistry, World Journal of Orthopedics

• Member of Editorial Board in the following Journals: World Journal of Orthopedics, International Journal of Orthopaedics

Publications

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=lyras+dn