Avgerinos Efthimios

Vascular surgeon

Vascular Surgeon, Co-Director of the Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Clinic, Athens Medical Center

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210 6862675

e.avgerinos@iatriko.gr

56 Kifisias & Delphin, 2nd floor, 151 25 Marousi

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Efthimios Avgerinos is a Vascular Surgeon, Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Second University Vascular Surgery Clinic of the National University of Athens.

With a 10-year career in the United States, Prof. E. Avgerinos has served as the leader of international research studies on minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of peripheral arterial disease, venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, techniques which he now applies in Greece and abroad.

He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Thessaly in 2001 and in 2011 completed his Vascular Surgery specialty at the University Clinics of the National University of Athens (2nd Surgical Clinic of the General Hospital of Laiko and 1st Vascular Surgery Clinic of the General Hospital of Attikou), part of which he served at the King’s Hospital in London and the Stadtische Kliniken in Frankfurt.

From 2011 to 2021 he worked clinically and academically at the University of Pittsburgh (UPMC), Pennsylvania, where in 2020 he was appointed Professor of Surgery. In September 2020, he returned to Greece as Co-Director of the Clinic of Vascular and Endovascular Surgeryof the Athens Medical Center and a visiting Professor at the 1st Vascular Surgery Clinic of the University of Athens.

His research and clinical scientific work is summarized in more than 250 publications in prestigious international journals and books and constant presence at conferences in Europe and America, with awards and many references in the vascular surgery literature (~7000 citations, h-index 35).

He has served on the Boards of Directors of the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS) and the International Society of Vascular Surgery (ISVS) and participates in the Scientific Committees for Education and Guidelines of the American Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS). Since 2020 he has been a member of the Boards of Directors of the American and European Venous Forums and since 2024 head of the ESVS Academy.