VASSOS NIKOLAOS

General Surgeon

General Surgeon - Surgical Oncologist, Director of the Surgical Oncology Clinic, Center for Sarcoma, Melanoma & Rare Tumors, Athens Medical Center, Scientific Associate,European Interbalkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki

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210 6862080

2310 400000

n.vassos@iatriko.gr

secretary.vassos@gmail.com

56 Kifisias Ave. & Delphin Ave., 15 125 Maroussi, 3rd floor

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Professor Dr. Nikolaos Vassos is a general surgeon and surgical oncologist, and is the first, certified by the European Society of Surgical Oncology, specialized sarcoma surgeon in Greece and one of the first in Europe. He is also Professor of Surgery at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and has assumed the Directorship of the Surgical Oncology Clinic at the Athens Medical Center and directs the Group’s Sarcoma, Melanoma and Rare Tumors Center.

He completed his studies at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, receiving a scholarship for 6 consecutive years from the State Scholarship Foundation, while in 2007 he graduated first from the Medical School with “Excellent” and receiving the honor of reciting the Hippocratic Oath.

After completing his studies, he went directly abroad and completed his entire surgical residency at the world-renowned University Hospital Erlangen in Germany, which is a leading reference center for surgical oncology, especially in the field of colorectal cancer. At the same time, he completed his doctoral studies on the prognostic value of integrins in patients with liver metastases of colorectal cancer at the Medical School of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2013. At the same university, he also received the title of Master of Health Business Administration (MHBA) as well as the Title of Specialization in General and Visceral Surgery.

At the same time, he continued his clinical, research and academic activities, while in 2015 he received special training in Surgical Oncology at international hospitals in the USA (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard University in Boston).

In 2016, he received the title of Associate Professor and was appointed Associate Professor of Surgery at the Medical School of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. At the same time, he completed his specialization in Peritoneal Carcinoma Surgery at the University Hospital of Regensburg, Germany and at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital in the United Kingdom, receiving the European Specialization Title of Peritoneal Carcinoma Surgeon, and assumed the organization and coordination of the corresponding Department at the University of Erlangen.

In 2018, he moved to England, taking up an honorary position at the world-renowned Royal Marsden Hospital in London, in the Department of Sarcoma, Melanoma and Rare Tumors of the University Surgical Clinic, which is the largest Center in Great Britain. His many months of service there was successfully completed by receiving the European Specialization Title as a Sarcoma Surgeon.

He then worked for the next four years at the Surgical Clinic of the University Hospital of Mannheim at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, assuming the position of Deputy Director in the Clinic of Surgical Oncology and the Sarcoma Center, which is one of the most historic and largest Centers in the world. During his stay there, he gained a vast amount of experience and expertise that few surgeons in Europe possess, and took over the Sarcoma Section at the European Society of Surgical Oncology. At the same time, continuing his academic, research and scientific work unabated, he received in 2021 the Title of Full Professor of Surgery at the University of Heidelberg, being the youngest surgeon to receive this title.

He has now returned to Greece having assumed the position of Director at the Surgical Oncology Clinic at the Athens Medical Center while he is the Head of the Sarcoma, Melanoma and Rare Tumors Center.

As an active member of the Academic Community of the University of Heidelberg, he continues his academic and research-scientific work, for which he has received numerous distinctions. He actively participates in many international research protocols and multicenter studies, while his authorship includes over 60 scientific publications in PubMed in major international medical journals with a total impact factor of 280, over 1200 bibliographic references and a special citation index (h-index) of 20, while he is the author of several chapters in Surgical Oncology books. He is a member of the scientific committee of international conferences, an invited speaker at numerous medical scientific conferences, a member of the editorial board of 12 prestigious international scientific journals and a reviewer in 40 international scientific journals (peer reviewed). At the same time, he is a regular and active member of many international medical (surgical and oncological) societies, holding key scientific and administrative positions in them, while he participates in the scientific education and guideline committees of the European Society of Surgical Oncology