Specialty

Neurosurgeon 

Complex Brain - Neurovascular - Spine & Spinal Cord Surgeon

Medical School

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Internship

General Hospital of Thessaloniki “George Papanikolaou”

Residency

• Brain, NeuroVascular, Complex and Reconstructive Spine & Spinal Cord Surgeon

• Brain Tumour, Aneurysm, Adult-Pediatric Deformity & Peripheral Nerve Surgery

• Thoracoscopic Video Assisted Thoracic Spinal Surgery

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

• Brain Bypass-Aneurysm-AVM surgery

• Pediatric and Adult Kypho-Scoliosis surgery

• Endoscopic Skull Base & Pituitary surgery

• Brachial Plexus and Peripheral nerve surgery

• Brain Tumor Surgery

• Complex and Reconstructive Spinal surgery

Professional Highlights

• Oxford University Hospitals – Clinical Fellow in Complex & Reconstructive Spinal Surgery Adult, Pediatric Deformity & Tumour Surgery

• Rotation Fellow in Neurosurgery SBH Health System,The Bronx, New York, USA

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

• Member of EANS: European Association of Neurosurgical Societies

• 4-year completion: EANS training

• Diplomate of the Panhellenic Board of Neurosurgery

• 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

• 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”

• 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