Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis MD, MSc, DMed, PhD(London), FACS, FRCS

President Elect European Hip Society

Summary

  • Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery, PGH University Hospital, AUTh, Thessaloniki (2019-today)
  • Executive Member of the Chairmen Committee, PGH Univ. Hospital, AUTh, Thessaloniki (2019-today)
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, AUTh Medical School Thessaloniki (2017-today)
  • Director of Adult Joint Reconstruction, PGH University Hospital, AUTh, Thessaloniki (2010-today)
  • President Hellenic Society for Hip & Knee Surgery (2020-2024)
  • Secretary General European Hip Society (2012-2021)
  • Founder & Chairman of ICAROS Center for Arthroplasty Thessaloniki (2014-today)
  • Director of CORE Center for Orthopaedic & Regenerative Research at CORE-CIRI-AUTh (2014-today)
  • Director Arthroplasty Registry Thessaloniki ART (2014-today)
  • Director Robotic Arthroplasty Surgery, InterBalkan Medical Center Hospital, Thessaloniki (2019-today)
  • President of MAST Conference-Masterclass in Arthroplasty Surgery Thessaloniki, Hellas (2013-today)
  • Visiting Professor, UCL Engineering, London UK (2019-today)
  • Founder & Vice President of ORamaVR.SA (Arthroplasty Simulators VR) (2016-today)

Curriculum Vitae

Academic & Professional Achievements

  • MD Cum Laude Athens University Medical School (1992)
  • FRCS: Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (1999)
  • MSc (Orth): University College London (2000)
  • DMed (Doctorate in Medicine) Crete University Medical School (2004)
  • Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association (2005)
  • PhD (London): King’s College, University of London (2009)
  • Fellow of the Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology (2010)
  • Member of the European Hip Society (2010)
  • Member of the European Knee Society (2017)
  • FACS: Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (2017)

Theses

MSc (Orth) [2000]
Institute of Orthopaedics, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UCL, London, UK
“Periprosthetic Femoral Fractures: Management and Outcome” S: Prof G. Bentley

DMed (Doctorate in Medicine) [2004]
Crete University Medical School, Crete, Greece
“Impaction grafting enhancement using human MSCs and BMP-7” S: Prof A. Hatzipavlou

PhD [2009]
King’s-Guys’-St Thomas School of Medicine, King’s College London, University of London, UK
“Bone Graft Substitutes: Local and Systemic Enhancement of Bone Formation” S: Prof L. Di Silvio

Medical School

MD Athens University Medical School Cum Laude (1992)

Best Student Award International Hippocratic Foundation Prize (1992)

Hellenic National Services

Military Service Special Forces Lieutenant, Paratroopers Regiment, Hellenic Special Forces (1992-94)
Compulsory Rural Medical Service (1994-95)

Specialist Training in Orthopaedic Surgery, UK (1995-2003)

James Paget NHS, Norfolk, Senior House Officer (1995-1998)
Exeter (PEOC) NHS, Exeter, Senior House Officer (1998-1999)
Stanmore (RNOH) NHS, London, MSc Registrar (1999-2000)
Whittington NHS, London, Senior Registrar (2000-2002)
Whittington NHS, London, Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, London, UK (2002-2003)

Fellowship & Sabbatical Training USA & UK (2003-2005)

Adult Joint Reconstruction Hip and Knee: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA (2003-04)
Adult Joint Reconstruction Hip and Knee (Ling fellowship): University Exeter, PEOC, Exeter, UK (2004-05)
Arthroplasty & Young Adult Hip Preservation Surgery: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (2011)

Hip Society “Rothman-Ranawat Hip Traveling Fellowship” USA (2014)

Rush University Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Rothman Institute Philadelphia, OrthoCarolina Hip and Knee
Center Charlotte, NC, Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota, Anderson Clinic Alexandria, Washington, VA, Joint
Implant Surgeons, New Albany, Ohio, Stanford Hospital, Stanford University, CA, University of Southern
California, LA, CA, London Health Sciences Centre London, ON Canada, The Center for Hip and Knee Surgery,
Indiana IN.

Scholarships-Research Fellowships-Prizes

  • Prize first 10 graduates Athens Medical School & International Hippocratic Foundation, (1992)
  • National Institute for Scholarships “Papadakis Scholarships” Hellas (1988-1992)
  • Onassis Scholarship, Hellas (2001-2003)
  • British Orthopaedic Association Scholarship, UK (2003)
  • Paul Toller Research Prize British Assoc. of MF Surgery, Glasgow, UK (2003)
  • Wishbone Traveling Fellowship, UK (2003)
  • The Latta Fellowship, British Orthopaedic Association & Wishbone, UK (2008)
  • First Prize Future Orthopaedic Surgeons Royal Society of Medicine, UK (2009)
  • Rothman Ranawat Traveling Fellowship, Hip Society, USA (2014)
  • FARE Prize & Grand AAHKS USA (2018)
  • Best Research Award AUTH Greece (2018)
  • Best Clinician Award AUTH Greece (2019)

Co-Author International Guidelines

  • International Guidelines on Periprosthetic Joint Infection (Philadelphia Consensus) (2015 & 2018)
  • European Guidelines on Anticoagulation for Arthroplasty (2017)

Book Editor in Hip Surgery

The Adult Hip: Master Case Series and Techniques, ISBN 978-3-319-64177-5, Springer 2018

PhD, MSc and Post Doc Supervisor

4 Post Docs, 11 PhD, 11 MSc, 3 BSc (PS: Primary Supervisor)
Post Doc Mehran Mozen Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
Post Doc Zak Gammie, Orthopaedics, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
Post Doc Stathis Kenanidis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
Post Doc Christos Topalis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
PhD Jonathan Mik, Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
PhD Lee Elcherst, Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
PhD Makis Savvidis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
PhD Anastasia Georgiou Imperial College London, UK (completed)
PhD Robert MacFarlane Imperial College London, UK (completed)
PhD Klontzas Michael, Imperial College London, UK (completed)
PhD Theofylaktos Kyriakidis, AUTH, Greece (completed)
PhD Akis Tzavelas Thessaloniki, AUTH, Greece (ongoing) PS
PhD Andrew Leonidou, AUTh, Greece, (ongoing) PS
PhD Chris Milaras, AUTh, Greece (ongoing) PS
PhD George Paparoidamis, AUTh, Greece, (ongoing) PS
MSc Orthopaedics Theofylaktos Kyriakidis, Erasmus University Belgium (completed) PS
MSc Science Dimitra Nella, AUTh, Greece (completed)
MSc Science Chris Topalis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
MSc Science Andrew Fonatlis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
MSC Science Theodore Michael, AUTh, Greece (completed)
MSc Maria Hadjidakis, Imperial College London (completed)
MSc Mech Eng Andrew Leonidou, Cardiff, UK (completed)PS
MSc Mech Eng Paul Panteliadis, Cardiff, UK (completed) PS
MSc Surgery Joseph Pagkalos, University of Edinburgh, UK(completed) PS
MSc in Trauma Surgery Greg Rudol, Swansea University, UK (completed) PS
MSc Mech Eng Simon Graham, University of Leeds, UK (completed)PS
BSc Orth Zubeir Ali, University College London, UK (completed)
BSc Orth Amit Bhalla, University College London, UK (completed)
BSc Orth Amir Rushdi, University College London, UK (completed)

Research Grants as PI or SI €2.552.000 (2005-2020)

1. Furlong Research Charitable Foundation: £ 60.000 Injectable cellular constructs h-MSC
2. Latta Fellowship: £ 400.000 BOA+ Leeds University Finite Element analysis of PPFF
3. BOA: £ 200.000 Fracture healing acceleration with PTH
4. Kuros Biotechnology: £ 90.000 PTH for intra-articular tibial plateau fractures
5. Yorkshire Children’s Spinal Foundation: £ 25.000 Congenital heart Disease and Scoliosis
6. Stryker USA Boston University: 200.000 USA Dollars PTH vs OP-1 in healing
7. Onassis Foundation: £ 20.000 HA with MSCs and OP-1 in vitro osteogenesis
8. Culier Grant, NHS, UK: £ 15.000 Enhancing impaction grafting with OP-1 and MSCs
9. NIR (Nat. Inst. Res) 93933 RCT pharmacology anticoagulant Ab testing ΙΙΙβ PRONOMOS €22.000
10. NIR 93950 ART €33.000
11. NIR 92882 MAST €12.300
12. NIR BAY 1213790 RCT multicenter pharmacology study II FOXTROT €150.000
13. FARE Grand AAHKS USA, Collaboration with NUY, $25.000
14. ESPA ORamaVR with AUTh and UTH €600.000
15. PJC ORamaVR with UOC €550.000
16. NIR 99834 RCT multicenter pharmacology study 70033093 AXIOMATIC-TKR: €150.000
17. Culier Grant, NHS, UK: £ 15.000 Enhancing impaction grafting with OP-1 and MSCs
18. NIR (Nat. Inst. Res) 93933 RCT pharmacology anticoagulant Ab testing ΙΙΙβ PRONOMOS €22.000
19. NIR 93950 ART €33.000
20. NIR 92882 MAST €12.300
21. NIR BAY 1213790 RCT multicenter pharmacology study II FOXTROT €150.000
22. FARE Grand AAHKS USA, Collaboration with NUY, $25.000
23. ESPA ORamaVR with AUTh and UTH €600.000
24. PJC ORamaVR with UOC €650.000
25. NIR 99834 RCT multicenter pharmacology study 70033093 AXIOMATIC-TKR: €50.000

Reviewer/Editor/Board Member

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, J Arthroplasty (Editorial Board), Journal of Cellular and Molecular
Medicine, Injury (Invited Editor), Tissue Engineering, Cell Tissue Organs, Arthritis Treatment and Research,
BMJ, Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology, Expert opinion in Pharmacotherapy, Expert opinion in
Biological Therapy, Expert opinion in Investigational Drugs, Expert op in Drug Safety (Editorial Board),
Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, Acta Biomaterialia, Hip International, Acta Orthop., J Orthop
Research, J Bone Mineral Research., Bone and Joint J.

Member of International Scientific Organizations

EHS, EKS, BOA, BTS, BORS, BHS, BMA, GMC, EBJIS, HAOST, HHKS, Onassis Foundation, RCS, ACS.

Bibliometrics-Indexes

275 Publications in Peer Reviewed International Journals (PubMed & Scopus)

  • 197 full PubMed papers
  • 7 full non-PubMed papers & letters
  • 67 PubMed Journal Proceedings

Total Impact Factor: 854.927
Citations (Google Scholar 2019): 8,873
H-factor: 43
i10-index: 126

105 Book Chapters in International Orthopaedics textbooks
180 Invited and Guest lectures in National & International Conferences
250 Abstracts presented in National & International Conferences