Personal Details
Name: Georgia – Alexandra
Surname: Spyropoulou
Year of Birth: 1974
Place of Birth: Athens
Occupation: Plastic Surgeon
Phone: 6938-415488
E-mail: gspyropoulou@hotmail.com
Academic Qualifications
Medical Degree, July 23, 1997, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Grade: “Very Good”
PhD: October 25, 2006, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Grade: “Excellent”
Medical Specialization
Plastic Surgery Specialty Title, May 13, 2005, Prefecture of East Attica, Greece
February 12, 1999 – February 12, 2001, Resident in General Surgery, 1st Surgical Clinic, General Hospital of Nikaia “Agios Panteleimon”, Dimitriou Mantouvalou 3, Piraeus, Greece
March 9, 2001 – July 30, 2001, Senior House Officer (SHO) in Plastic Surgery, “St Andrew’s” Center for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford Essex CM17ET, UK
August 13, 2001 – March 21, 2005, Resident in Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery Clinic, General Hospital of Athens “G. Gennimatas”, Mesogeion 154, 11527, Athens, Greece
European Specialty Title in Plastic Surgery, Fellowship of the European Board in Plastic Surgery (fEBOPRAS)
Postgraduate Training
July 15, 2006 – September 6, 2006 Honorary Clinical Fellow in Plastic Surgery
Addenbrookes Hospital, Hills Road,
CB2 2QQ, Cambridge, UK
September 7, 2006 – November 30, 2006 Locum Consultant in Plastic Surgery
Christie Hospital, Wilmslow Road,
M20 4BX, Manchester, UK
February 7, 2007 – December 23, 2007 Breast Reconstruction Fellow
Birmingham City Hospital, Dudley
Road, B18 7QH, Birmingham, UK
February 1, 2008 – July 30, 2008 Microsurgical Fellow Fu-Chan-Wei Rotation,
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital,
123-1 Dabei Road Niaosong Shiang, Kao-hsiung, Taiwan
May 10, 2016 – November 9, 2016 Educational leave at the University Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic
of Attikon Hospital,
Chaidari, Athens
Distinctions/Scholarships
1991-1997 Ioannis Latsis Foundation Scholarship throughout medical studies at the Medical School of Athens
1995 “Erasmus” Scholarship for a 3-month attendance at the Surgical Clinic of “Hotel Dieu” Hospital in Paris
Awards/Commendations
2003 Commendation for the anatomical and clinical study “Separation of the gracilis myocutaneous flap into muscular and dermosubcutaneous components with only myocutaneous perforators as connection. A new possibility in the reconstruction of complex defects. Research study and clinical application.”
Lykoudis E., Spyropoulou G.A., Ioannovits I., Vlastou Aik.
6th Panhellenic Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Athens, Greece, October 1-5, 2003
2005 “M. Stavrakis” Award for the poster “Reconstruction of a complex defect of the ankle and metatarsal region with the free osteomyocutaneous fibula flap.”
Lykoudis E., Sakellariou Aik., Spyropoulou G.A., Pafylas D., Gavriilidis I., Beris A.
7th Panhellenic Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Loutraki, Greece, October 27-29, 2005
2007 Commendation for the experimental study “New experimental model of purely motor nerves for the comparative study between end-to-end and end-to-side neurorrhaphy in the reinnervation of free muscle flaps.”
Spyropoulou G.A., Lykoudis E., Papalois A., Batistatou A., Tagaris G., Pikoulis E., Bastounis I., Papadopoulos O.,
8th Panhellenic Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Chalkidiki, Greece, October 4-7, 2007
2011 Commendation for the work: “Injuries on tattoos.”
P. Georgiou, M. Koizis, L. Koukoulomatis, A. Spyropoulou, S. Karamatsoukis, E. Sfakiotakis, I. Stoidis, N. Minogiannis, E. Komninakis.
9th Panhellenic Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, August 29-31, Kipriotis Conference Center, Kos, Greece.
2011 1st prize for the best e-poster presentation:
“Reverse abdominoplasty: a useful method for upper abdominal wall reconstruction: presentation of 2 cases and literature review.”
G.A. Spyropoulou, G. Zampakou, D. Chapsas, E. Komninakis, A. Mandrekas.
9th Panhellenic Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, August 29-31, Kipriotis Conference Center, Kos, Greece.
2016 Award for the work: “Electrical burns of the upper extremity in a tertiary Hospital: a 5-year retrospective study and literature review.”
S. Pitsiava, A. Tsimbonis, E. Karagergou, L. Pavlidis, D. Dionysiou, A. Spyropoulou, E. Demiri.
31st Northern Greece Medical Congress, Thessaloniki, April 7-9, 2016.
2017 1st prize for the best e-poster presentation: “Reconstruction of nasal ala defect with a free flap from the helix of the auricle.”
Spyropoulou GA, Pavlidis L, Tsimbonis A, Delibaltas A, Demiri E.
12th Panhellenic Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, October 18-21, 2017, War Museum, Athens, Greece.
2018 Faculty of Health Sciences,
AUTH Excellence Award for first distinctions in national and international Conferences
2018 Faculty of Health Sciences, AUTH Excellence Award for the total impact factor of publications for the year 2018
Publications
58
References
249
Work Experience
March 10, 2020 – present
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Papageorgiou General Hospital”, Polichni, 56403, Thessaloniki, Greece
November 22, 2018 – March 10, 2020
Permanent Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Papageorgiou General Hospital”, Polichni, 56403, Thessaloniki, Greece
March 24, 2015 – November 22, 2018
Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Plastic Surgery
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Papageorgiou General Hospital”, Polichni, 56403, Thessaloniki, Greece
March 12, 2012 – March 24, 2015
Lecturer in Plastic Surgery
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Papageorgiou General Hospital”, Polichni, 56403, Thessaloniki, Greece
January 9, 2009 – March 12, 2012
Registrar B’
Plastic Surgery Clinic
Thriasio General State Hospital of Elefsina, Greece
October 20, 2008 – December 23, 2009
Auxiliary Registrar
Plastic Surgery Clinic of the “G. Gennimatas” General State Hospital of Athens, Mesogeion 154, 11527, Athens, Greece
September 30, 2005 – July 10, 2006
Auxiliary Registrar
Plastic Surgery Clinic of the University Hospital of Ioannina, Stavrou Niarchou Street, 45500, Ioannina, Greece
November 10, 1997 – November 9, 1998
Compulsory Rural Service
Neapoli Health Center, Laconia, Greece
Teaching Experience
September 9, 2003 – September 10, 2003
Instructor at the 3rd Microsurgery Seminar for Beginners of EEPEACH, ELPEN, Athens, Greece
September 9, 2004 – September 11, 2004
Instructor at the 3rd Microsurgery Seminar for Advanced of EEPEACH, ELPEN, Athens, Greece
March 10, 2005 – March 12, 2005
Instructor at the 4th Microsurgery Seminar for Advanced of EEPEACH, ELPEN, Athens, Greece
September 29, 2005 – July 10, 2006
Assistant in the Educational Work of the Plastic Surgery Clinic of the University Hospital of Ioannina (training of 10th-semester students during visits and surgeries)
April 3, 2012
“Applications of Microsurgery” course within the postgraduate courses of the Hellenic Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
January 18, 2013 – January 20, 2013
Instructor at the “1st Seminar of Laparoscopic – Thoracoscopic and Open Abdominal – Thoracic, Spinal – Hip and Plastic Surgery”, January 18 – 20, 2013, AUTH Anatomy Lab, Thessaloniki, Greece
October 5, 2016 – October 7, 2016
Instructor at the 15th Educational Seminar of Basic Microsurgery Knowledge of EEPEACH, ELPEN, Athens, Greece
April 20, 2016 – April 22, 2016
Instructor at the 8th Advanced Microsurgery Seminar of EEPEACH, ELPEN, Athens, Greece
March 12, 2012 – present
Lecturer of the elective winter semester course “Plastic Surgery” to 9th-semester Medical students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
March 12, 2012 – present
Lecturer in the postgraduate course “Methodological approach to surgical breast diseases” organized by the Plastic Surgery Clinic of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
March 22, 2018, March 21, 2019
Lecturer in the postgraduate course “Clinical and Surgical Anatomy (Applied Anatomy)” organized by the Laboratory of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
November 14, 2018
Lecturer in the postgraduate course “Basic Principles of Microsurgery” organized by the 2nd Ophthalmology Clinic of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
December 6, 2018 – December 8, 2018
Instructor at the MEDARTIS MODUS&APTUS workshop on mandible fracture management and hand fracture management within the 24th Joint Congress of the Hellenic Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the Hellenic Society for Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity, December 6 – 8, 2018.
Participation in the writing of chapters for textbooks and manuals
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- Tsoutsos D., Spyropoulou G.A. “Coverage of burn surface”. Chapter: 18, Pages: 97-101. “Burn unit. Inhalational burn”. Litsas Publications. Athens 2004.
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- Demiri E, Spyropoulou G, Milias Sp. “Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue”. Chapter 17, Pages 354-363. “General Surgery”. UniversityStudioPress Publications. Thessaloniki 2017.
- Participation in scientific societies
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- Member of the Hellenic Society of Plastic Surgery
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- Member of the Hellenic Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
Participation in scientific conferences, Conference Organization, Round Tables, Workshops, etc.
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- I have participated in 51 scientific conferences
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- I have participated as a member of the scientific committee in 3 conferences
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- I have participated as a member of the organizing committee in 1 conference
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- I have participated in 19 round tables
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- I have participated in 33 workshops
Scientific Visits / Educational Leaves
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- During General Surgery (within the framework of Plastic Surgery specialization) I took 1 month educational leave to visit “St Andrew’s” Center for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, UK
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- Educational leave from September 2 to September 9, 2012, to participate in the humanitarian mission of the WomenforWomen organization in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. During the mission, the organization’s female surgeons operated on women and children burn victims of domestic violence.
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- May 10, 2016 – November 9, 2016 Educational leave at the University Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic of Attikon Hospital, Chaidari, Athens. During the Educational Leave, I participated in the management of craniofacial fractures, the surgical treatment of head and neck cancer, an experimental research protocol on the function of oncogenes in head and neck skin cancer, and the Clinic’s Educational Work at Undergraduate and Postgraduate Levels.