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QUALIFICATIONS

1988 Degree of Medicine (MD), University of Athens

1992 FRCS (Edinburgh)

1997 Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh)

1999 FRCS(SN)

2000 Certificate of Completion of Specialty Training in Neurosurgery, Joint Committee for Higher
Surgical Training at the Royal College of Surgeons

Higher Neurosurgical Training

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Great Ormond Street Hospital
Neurosurgical Registrar Rotations August 1992 - July 1994

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital,
Edinburgh

August 1994 - April 1997 British Brain & Spine
Foundation Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, studying full-time for the
Degree of Ph.D. Honorary Clinical Fellow, Western General Hospital

May
1997 – March 2002 Specialist Registrar in Surgical Neurology

University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

July 2000 – June 2001 Chief Resident in Neurosurgery

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

April 2002- March 2008 Consultant
Neurosurgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer