The History of the Clinic

2003-2013 Founder and first director Professor George Kapetanos
2013-2017 the late Professor Ioannis M. Kyrkos took over.
2017-2019 Director Professor Fares Sayeh 

The Clinic today

Since 2019, Dr. Tsiridis is the Professor/Director of the AUTh Orthopaedic Clinic of the Papageorgiou General Hospital, and Head of the Division of Arthroplasty and Hip & Knee Replacement, as well as Visiting Full Professor at University College of London (UCL).

He is also President of the Division of Hip and Knee Surgery of the Hellenic Orthopaedic Society and Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

He is the founder and head of International Centre for Arthroplasty and Robotic Orthopaedic Surgery ICAROS (International Center For Arthroplasty & Robotic Orthopaedic Surgery).

Mr. Tsiridis is also Secretary General of the European Hip Orthopaedic Society and Attaché of Royal College of Surgeons of England  (FRCS) and College of Surgeons of America (FACS).

He worked as Director of the NHS and Professor of Orthopaedics at the Universities of Leeds and Imperial College of London in Britain specialised in arthroplasty and revision of the hip and knee for 9 years (2005-2014).

He was specialised in Orthopaedic Surgery entirely in London in one of the most important University Hospitals in the world in the field of Orthopaedics, the Stanmore Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital-of the University College of London (1995-2002) and retrained in arthroplasty at Harvard (MGH and Children's Hospitals) and the Boston University Medical Center in Boston, USA and in Exeter (2002-2005). He holds a Master's degree in Orthopaedic Surgery. (MSc Orth) from the University College of London and a doctorate degree (PhD) from the Kings College of London and  Guy's-King's-St Thomas' GKT Medical School (top 10 Universities in the world).

He is an award-winning graduate of the Athens Medical School (1992) and served in the special forces-paratroopers of the Greek Army (1992-94) and his rural service in Northern Greece (1994-95).

Mr. Tsiridis is also has performed a large number of arthroplasties operations and hip and knee revisions specializing in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and robotic arthroplasty with an average of 500 operations per year and more of 11,500 since 1994.. He is also specialised in pelvic-cotylus surgery and the treatment of major trauma in adults and children, arthroscopy and biological therapies.

He has supervised 20 master's and doctoral theses and has published more than 220 scientific papers in prestigious international medical journals of PubMed, attracting around 10,000 citations and h=47(2020). His book entitled "The Adult Hip Master Case Series And Techniques" Springer-Nature received 12,000 downloads in its first year of publication (2019) and was named one of the Springer's most read surgical books.

He runs the Research Centre for Orthopaedic and Regenerative Medicine at the Centre for Interdisciplinarity and Innovation KEDEK of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Hip-Knee Arthroplasty Registration Centre which is unique in Greece. He has received the International Hippocratic Foundation Award as one of the 10 first graduates of the Athens Medical School (1992) and has been a fellow of the State Scholarship Foundation (1986-92) and the Onassis Foundation (1999-2002). He has received the prestigious international Rothman-Ranawat surgical awards from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery and Latta from the British Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery as well as a large number of distinctions and awards for clinical and research excellence and has attracte research funding of 2.5 million euros in his career to date.

 

Professor Tsiridis' contribution to orthopaedic surgery

• pioneer of Robotic Arthroplasty in Greece and internationally.
• was the first to publish atraumatic hip arthroplasty short invasive surgery (MIS) STAR
• highlighted surgical techniques in hip and knee revisions
• contributed to the use of stem cells in joint reconstruction
• highlighted the use of new imaging and artificial intelligence technologies in Orthopaedics
• in 2020 was ranked among the world's top 100,000 scientists in all scientific fields by Stanford University USA. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384

Clinic units

M-1: Hip & Knee Arthroplasty & Revision Unit

          Head: E. Tsiridis

M-2: Upper Limb & Extremity Surgery & Trauma Unit

          Head: I. Sarris

M-3: Metabolic Diseases, Osteoporosis & Fragility Fractures Unit -

          Scoliosis Unit.

          Head: M. Potupnis

M-4: Juvenile Hip and Arthroscopy Unit 

          Head: L. Poultsidis

M-5: Adult Musculoskeletal Trauma Unit

          Head: Β. Makris

M-6: Sarcoma & Musculoskeletal Oncological Surgery Unit

          Head: Β. Papavasileiou

M-7: Foot Joint Surgery Unit

          Head: I Petrakis

M-8: Pelvic & Coccygeal Surgery and Musculoskeletal Infections Unit

          Head: E. Kenanidis

M-9: Paediatric Orthopaedics & Paediatric Trauma Unit

          Head: Χ. H. Topalis

M-10: Biomechanics & Ergometrics Unit

   Head: P. Tsaklis

  Centres & Laboratories linked to the Clinic

1. Arthroplasty Registration Centre (Scientific Director: E. Kenanidis)
2. Centre for the Conduct of Multicentre International Studies (Scientific Director: E. Kenanidis)
3. C.O.RE Laboratory / KE.D.E.K. (Scientific Director: M. Potoupnis)
4. Laboratory of Biomechanics & Ergonomics, University of Thessaly (Scientific Director: P. Tsaklis)

Educational work

Undergraduate
The Orthopaedics course is attended by more than 120 students per year /4^th year of the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, both with clinical and lectures.

The selected undergraduate course "Metabolic Bone Diseases" trains annually about 150 students on the 4^th year of the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Postgraduate
Since 2015, the Clinic has been organizing the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program "Sport and Health", in collaboration with the Laboratory of Anatomy and the Department of Physical Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which accepts 40 postgraduate students every year.  http://www.master-sport-health.gr/

Doctor's Theses

24 doctoral theses have been completed and 7 doctoral theses are in progress. A significant number of theses are carried out in collaboration with universities abroad, in particular in the UK, Sweden and the USA.

 

Completed Dissertations: -Anestis Papadopoulos, AUTh -Ethymios Karadimas, AUTh -Anastasios Nicolaides, AUTh -Pavlos Christodoulou -Margaritis Kyrkos, AUTH -Kleovoulos Anagnostidis, AUTH, AUTH -Eustathios Kenanidis, AUTH -Al Zir Ziad, AUTH -Lazaros Economidis, AUTH -Stavros Pellios, AUTH -Artemis Kapetanou, AUTH -Antonia Bidoudi, AUTH -Ethymios Iliopoulos, AUTH -Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, AUTH -Mattheos Savvidis, AUTH -Konstantinos Gastaris, AUTH -Marinos Karanassos, AUTH -Paulos Papadopoulos, AUTH -Jonathan Mik Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK -Lee Elcherst Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK -Anastasia Georgiou Imperial College London, UK - Robert MacFarlane Imperial College London, UK - Klontzas Michael Imperial College London, UK - Theophylactos Kyriakidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Dissertations in progress: - Anastasios Nektarios Tzavelas - Andreas Leonidou - Christos Milaras - Georgios Paparoidamis - Demosthenes Tsitouras - Vasilios Georgiou - Gregorios Sakelariou

Writing books/chapters:

• The Adult Hip: Master Case Series and Techniques, ISBN 978-3-319-64177-5, Springer 2018
• Gray's Anatomy. Thorax. Ed. Gatzoulis M, The anatomy of thorax. 2008: 907-1038; Elsevier, Churchill, Livingstone
• Rockwood and Green, Fractures in Adults, 6th edition, 2006, Lippincott Williams & Wilkinns, NY, USA. Fracture Healing and Bone Grafting
• Concise Orthopaedics, University Studio Press 2008
• Metabolic Bone Diseases, University Studio Press 2010
• Osteoporosis and the Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Studio Press 2012

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION: CORE - KEDEK

An interdisciplinary group of 8 faculty members and 20 researchers, involved in medical research and biotechnology. It is developed in twelve (12) sub-domains, ranging from basic molecular and genetic research to clinical application and registry development, as well as innovative software and computational biomedical and bioinformatics technology:

1. Regenerative Medicine & Stem cells
2. Endocrinology & Research Methodology
3. Metabolic Bone Diseases & Bone Fragility
4. Biomechanics & Ergonomics
5. 3D Printing in Surgery
6. Clinical Trials, Arthroplasty Registry
7. Materials Science Engineering
8. Medical Imaging & 3D Printing Process
9. Signal Processing & Wave Propagation
10. Computational Biomedicine & Bioinformatics
11. Hybrid imaging (SPECT/CT, PET/CT)
12. Computer Science & VR tech

Centre of Arthroplasty Registries (Arthroplasty Registry)

Unique in Greece, the only hip and knee arthroplasty registration centre with long-term monitoring. The recording is done according to the rules of GDPR and is a research project of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki funded from the research program of Professor Tsiridis. The center is a guarantee of quality of services in Greece and Internationally and its results are recognized by all reputable International journals and organizations.

COMBINED TRAINING PROGRAM IN ORTHOPAEDICS (CTPO)

1. Weekly CTPO is held with the participation of the clinicians: C University Orthopaedic Hospital Papageorgiou, B University Orthopaedic Hospital Papageorgiou, B University Orthopaedic Hospital C. Genetas, 1st Orthopaedics 424 GNSH, 2nd Orthopaedics 424 GNSH, Hippocrates Orthopaedics, Alexandroupolis University Hospital Clinic.
2. Twice a week, a multiple choice question course for residents is held to prepare them for specialty exams.
3. All residents will have the opportunity to do an MSc or PhD within their training in our clinic, and it is mandatory to publish one or two papers during their training.
4. LogBook: the recording of procedures is mandatory and will be checked and signed by the Director of the clinic.

Publications:

Bibliometrics Indexes

• PubMed publications in Peer Reviewed International Journals

150 Book Chapters in International Orthopaedics textbooks

total impact factor	>2.000
Citations (Google Scholar 2020)	>16.000

Indicative publications : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=tsiridis+e.