CANCER / ONCOLOGY
Goussias Konstantinos
Goussias Konstantinos
Neurosurgeon
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He studied at the Medical School (1998-2004) of the University of Ioannina.
He specialized in Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Bonn, Germany, where in 2013 he received the title of attending physician. From 2016 to 2018 he served as Deputy Director of the Neurosurgery Clinic of the University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum and then as Director of the Department of Neuro-Oncology of the Neurosurgery Clinic of the University of Marburg. In 2019 he was elected Director of the Academic Neurosurgery Clinic Lünen of the University of Münster, where he developed oncological surgery and endoscopic surgery for diseases of the brain and spine.
In 2014 and 2021 he was awarded the academic position of Associate Professor of Neurosurgery (Priv.-Doz) and the right to teach (venia legendi) by the Universities of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) and Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms–Universität Münster), respectively. In 2022 he was elected as Professor of Neurosurgery by the University of Nicosia, while in 2023 he was recognized as Professor of Neurosurgery by the Westfalen Lippe Medical Association.
In 2016 he founded and was scientifically responsible in parallel with his clinical activities for the Neurosurgical Research Laboratory of the Bergmannsheil University Hospital Bochum. He has also demonstrated intense research activity, his publications have accumulated more than 3000 citations (h index> 20), while he himself designed or was responsible (principal investigator) for numerous multicenter studies, mainly on the treatment of patients with brain tumors. He has published English and German Neurosurgical books and has contributed chapters to authoritative German books on Neurosurgery. He participates in the editorial board of prestigious international neurooncology/neurosurgery journals, while he is also a reviewer in numerous corresponding journals.
He is an internationally recognized expert in brain and spinal cord tumor surgery. He has been selected to the 15-member surgical oncology committee of the European Neurosurgical Society (EANS) and is certified by the German Neurosurgical Academy (Neurochirurgische Akademie) as an expert in surgical neuro-oncology and neuro-monitored brain surgery based on his total and annual number of surgeries and the size of the clinic he managed. He is also certified as a brain tumor surgeon using the intraoperative fluorescence method.
In the field of spine surgery, he is certified by the German Spine Society (Deutsche Wirbelsäulengesellschaft) with the Master Zertifikat, which is awarded after completing a significant number of complex spine surgeries, as well as with the equivalent of the European company Eurospine (Eurospine Diploma), while he primarily applies endoscopic spine surgeries, the clearly least invasive method of all the minimally invasive techniques.
- 2024-present: Director of the Neurosurgery Clinic of the Athens Medical Center
- 2019-2023: Director of the Academic Neurosurgery Clinic Lünen, University of Münster, Germany
- 2018-2019: Director of the Department of Neurosurgical Oncology, University Clinic, University of Marburg, Germany
- 2015-2018: Deputy Director of the Neurosurgery Clinic, University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum, Germany
- 2013-2015: Neurosurgery Curator, Neurosurgery University Clinic Bonn, Germany
- 2008-2013: Neurosurgery Resident, Neurosurgery University Clinic Bonn Germany
- 2010: Doctoral thesis, University of Ioannina
- 2012: Second doctoral thesis, University of Bonn, Germany
- 2014: Habilitation, Associate Professor, University of Bonn, Germany
- 2021: Habilitation, Associate Professor, University of Münster, Germany
- 2022: Professor, University of Nicosia
- Brain and spinal cord tumor surgery
- certified as an expert in this field by the German Neurosurgical Academy (Deutsche Neurochirurgische Akademie) based on the number and complexity of cases he has operated on.
- Also recognized by the same Academy and the German Society of Neurosurgical Electrophysiology as an expert in brain tumor surgery with intraoperative neuromonitoring
- Certified for fluorescence-assisted brain tumor surgery (5ALA)
- Endoscopic surgery of skull base and brain ventricles
- Endoscopic surgery of spinal diseases
- endoscopic discectomy,
- endoscopic spinal fusion
COMMITTEES
- Section Panel, EANS-Neurooncology
- IM Committee of EANS
- GH Committee of EANS
- Scientific Committee of the German Neurosurgical Congresses (DGNC Jahrestagung)
- Scientific Committee of the European Neurosurgical Congresses (EANS annual meeting)
MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES
- Member of the Association of Academic-Professors of German Universities (DHV-Deutscher Hοchschulverband)
- Member of the German Hospital Directors Association (VLK-Verein Leitender Krankenhausärzten)
- Member of the German Neurosurgical Society (DGNC-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie)
- Member of the German Spine Society (DWG-Deutsche Wirbelsäulengesellschaft)
- Member of the German Neuro-Intensive Society (DGNI-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurointensiv)
- Member of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN-International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery)
- Member of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS-European Association of Neurosurgical Societies)
- Member of the EANS-Neurooncology Section
- Member of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC-European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer) of Cancer)
- Member of the EORTC brain tumor group
- Member of the Westfalen-Lippe Medical Association
- Member of the Athens Medical Association
EDITOR/EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF JOURNALS:
- Editor: Frontiers in Oncology, E-ISSN:2234-943X
- Editorial Board Member: Frontiers in Neurology, E-ISSN:1664-2295
- Editorial Board Member: BMC Neurology, E-ISSN:1471-2377
In his 17-year career in Germany, he has demonstrated intense research activity, his publications have so far accumulated more than 3000 citations (h index> 20), while he has designed or been responsible (principal investigator) for numerous multicenter studies, mainly on the treatment of patients with brain tumors.
His research activities now continue in Athens, where he is now designing newer clinical studies with the main theme of additional experimental treatment, such as immunotherapy or local treatment of patients with brain tumors.
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