CURRENT STATUS

• Feb 2025-Today Consultant Bariatric and General Surgeon, Iaso Private Hospital, General Clinic, Bariatric & General Surgery Service.
• Dec 2023-Today Consultant Bariatric and General Surgeon, Athens Medical Group, Psychiko Clinic, Obesity and Metabolic Disorders Department.
• June 2024-Today Scientific Collaborator, 1st Propaedeutic Surgical Department, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

EXPERIENCE

• Mar 2023-May 2023 Ponderas Academic Hospital, Bucharest, Romania. EAES Fellow in Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Nov 2022-Nov 2023 Mohak Bariatric and Robotic Surgery Center, Indore, MP, India. Fellow in Metabolic Bariatric Surgery
• Dec 2020-Dec 2022 Surgeon at Evaggelismos General Hospital of Athens, Greece. Junior Consultant Surgeon, 4th Department of General Surgery
• Dec 2018-Nov 2020 “Hygeia” Private Hospital, Athens, Greece. Surgeon, Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery
• Nov 2015-Nov 2018 “Evaggelismos” General Hospital of Athens, Greece. Surgical Resident, 2nd Department of General Surgery
• Jun 2013-Jul 2015 “Thriassion” General Hospital of Elefsina, Greece. Surgical Resident, Department of General Surgery
• Aug 2012-May 2013 General Hospital of Tripolis, Arcadia, Greece. Rural, remote health & primary care physician
• March 2012-Aug 2012 “Thriassion” General Hospital of Elefsina, Greece. Surgical Intern (volunteer), Department of General Surgery
• Nov 2011-March 2012 SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital. Visiting MD & voluntary research fellow, Department of Vascular Surgery
• Jun 2010-Nov 2011 “Thriassion” General Hospital. Surgical Intern, Department of General Surgery

QUALIFICATIONS

• Mar 2023-May 2023 Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery, Ponderas Academic Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
• Nov 2022-Nov 2023 Fellowship in Metabolic Bariatric Surgery, Mohak Bariatric and Robotic Surgical Center, Indore, MP, India.
• Nov 2018 Board Certification in General Surgery, Regional Administration of Attica, Greece.
• 2017-2020 MSc Trauma Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Merit.
• 2012-2015 MSc Thrombosis, Hemorrhage and Transfusion Medicine, University of Athens, GPA 9.5/10.
• 2012 Educational Commission of Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification.
• 2001-2007 Medical Degree, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, GPA 8.2/10.

EXTRACURRICULAR COURSES

• 2023 SCOPE Certified by the World Obesity Federation (renewed annually).
• 2020 Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS®), American College of Surgeons (recertification.)
• 2019 C.LA.S.S. courses, N.O.D.E. Institute.
• 2018 Hands-on course on laparoscopic suturing and stapling techniques, IFSO Dubai.
• 2017 Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC®).
• 2015 Advanced open surgical skills course, Hellenic Surgical Society.
• 2014 Advanced Life Support (ALS®), European Resuscitation Council.
• 2013 Basic laparoscopic skills course, Hellenic Surgical Society.
• 2007 Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS®), American College of Surgeons.

AWARDS

• 2024 IFSO Melbourne 2024 Scholarship – International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Related Disorders.
• 2023 EAES Fellowship Program 2023-2024 – European Association for Endoscopic Surgery.
• 2022 SCOPE scholarship – World Obesity Federation.
• 2019 IFSO-EC Lyon 2019 Scholarship – International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Related Disorders – European Chapter.
• 2018 Atlantis Mobility Fund (The Atlantis Project), for exceptional clinical teaching skills.
• 2007 2nd award for oral presentation – 13th Scientific Congress of Greek Medical Students, Athens for the oral presentation “An interesting case of primary hyperparathyroidism in the context of MEN1 syndrome”.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 23/11/2024 Trainer, 11th Basic Laparoscopic Skills Training, “Attikon” University Hospital.
• Jun 2024-Today Invited speaker on bariatric surgery topics, 1st Propedeutic Surgical Department, Athens Medical School, Ippokrateion Hospital.
• Jun 2024-Today Tutor for distance learning certified seminars “First Aid” and “General and Special Nursing”, Evdokimos Teaching Group, Athens, Greece.
• 1-2/6/2024 Trainer, 10th Basic Laparoscopic Skills Training, “Attikon” University Hospital.
• 30/5-1/6 Faculty, theoretical and practical tutoring, International workshop on SADI-S – Athens Medical Group, Psychiko Clinic, Athens, Greece.
• 2019-2020 Tutor at LLL Live Seminar, Evaggelismos General Hospital of Athens, GrESPEN.
• 2019-2020 Postgraduate courses for Nurses, Specialization in Surgical Nursing, Evaggelismos General Hospital of Athens.
• 2016-2018 Undergraduate courses for Medical Candidates, Atlantis Project and AHEPA Collaborative, Evaggelismos General Hospital of Athens.

PEER REVIEWING

• Academic Editor for PLOS ONE (ISSN: 1932-6203), since 2024.
• Obesity Reviews (Wiley, ISSN: 1467-7881), since 2024.
• BMC Gastroenterology (Springer Nature, ISSN: 1471-230X), since 2024.
• International Journal of Emergency Medicine (Springer Nature, electronic ISSN: 1865-1380), since 2024.
• International Journal of Colorectal Disease (Springer Link, electronic ISSN: 1432-1262), since 2023.
• Journal of Clinical Medicine (MDPI, EISSN: 2077-0383), since 2023.
• BMJ Case Reports (online ISSN: 1757-790X), since 2022.
• World Journal of Gastroenterology (Baishideng, online ISSN: 2219-2840), since 2022.
• World Journal of Surgical Oncology (Springer Nature, ISSN: 1477-7819), since 2021.
• Obesity Surgery (Springer Link, electronic ISSN: 1708-0428) since 2019.

MEMBERSHIPS

• American College of Surgeons (ACS), since 2023 (provisional member since October 2018).
• Hellenic Surgical Society (EXE), since 2021.
• European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES®), since 2021.
• Hellenic Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgery, since 2019.
• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO®), since 2018.
• Scientific Union of Evaggelismos General Hospital of Athens, since 2018 (board member 2018-2021).
• Hellenic Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, since 2018.
• Athens Medical Society, since 2017 (member by merit).
• Medical Association of Athens, since 2007.

LANGUAGES
Greek (native), English (proficient), and French (fair).

HIGHLIGHTED RECENT PUBMED-INDEXED PUBLICATIONS

1. Pantelis A, Doulami G. Obstacles Faced by Young Bariatric Surgeons in Greece: A Call for Change. Obes Surg 2025. doi: 10.1007/s11695-025-07820-w.
2. Machairiotis N, Pantelis AG, Potiris A, Karampitsakos T, Drakakis P, Drakaki E, Oikonomou P, Nikolaou C, Matthaios D, Charalampidis C, Ioannidis A, Zarogoulidis P, Sofoklis S. The effectiveness of metabolic bariatric surgery in preventing gynecologic cancer – from pathophysiology to clinical outcomes. J Cancer 2024;15(4):1077-1092. doi: 10.7150/jca.91471.
3. Pantelis AG, Machairiotis N, Stavros S, Disu S, Drakakis P. Current applications of indocyanine green (ICG) in abdominal, gynecologic, and urologic surgery: a meta-review and quality analysis with use of the AMSTAR 2 instrument. Surgical Endoscopy. Published online: 13 November 2023. doi: 10.1007/s00464-023-10546-4.
4. Pantelis AG, Vakis G, Kotrotsiou M, Lapatsanis DP. Status of Body Contouring Following Metabolic Bariatric Surgery in a Tertiary Hospital of Greece – Still a Long Way to Go. J Clin Med. 2023, 12(9), 3196. doi:10.3390/jcm12093196.
5. Pantelis AG. Metabolomics in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Research and the Potential of Deep Learning in Bridging the Gap. Metabolites. 2022 May 19;12(5). doi: 10.3390/metabo12050458.
6. Pantelis AG, Panagopoulou PA, Lapatsanis DP. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms-A Scoping Review. Diagnostics (Basel). 2022 Mar 31;12(4). doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12040874.
7. Singhal R, Ludwig C, Rudge G, Gkoutos GV, Tahrani A, Mahawar K, Pędziwiatr M, Major P, Zarzycki P, Pantelis A, Lapatsanis DP, Stravodimos G, et al. from the GENEVA Collaborators. 30-Day Morbidity and Mortality of Bariatric Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Multinational Cohort Study of 7704 Patients from 42 Countries. Obes Surg. 2021 Oct;31(10):4272-4288. doi: 10.1007/s11695-021-05493-9.
8. Pantelis AG, Stravodimos GK, Lapatsanis DP. A Scoping Review of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Current Status and Future Perspectives. Obes Surg. 2021 Oct;31(10):4555-4563. doi: 10.1007/s11695-021-05548-x.
9. Pantelis A, Machairiotis N, Lapatsanis DP. The Formidable yet Unresolved Interplay between Endometriosis and Obesity. Scientific World Journal. 2021;2021:6653677. doi: 10.1155/2021/6653677.

SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC CONGRESSES

1. 16th Panhellenic Congress of Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgery, 30 May-1 June 2025, Athens, Greece.
2. 13th IFSO-EC Venice 2025 – 14-17 May 2025, Venice, Italy.
3. 8th Panhellenic Congress of Medical/Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (GrESPEN), 11-13 April 2025, Charokopeion University, Athens, Greece.
4. 27th IFSO World Congress, 3-6 September 2024, Melbourne, Australia.
5. 25th IFSO World Congress Silver Anniversary, 25-27 August 2022, Miami, FL, USA.

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