Doctors for Pilonidal cyst near Agia Paraskevi

Ο Ιατρός Dr. Αρχοντοβασίλης Φώτης MD, PhD, FISS, FEHS είναι Γενικός Χειρουργός - Πρωκτολόγος, Διευθυντής της ΣΤ’ Χειρουργικής Κλινικής στη Γενική Κλινική Metropolitan General και Διευθυντής του Κέντρου Αριστείας Χειρουργικής Κηλών του κοιλιακού τοιχώματος στο Metropolitan General. Αριστούχος Διδάκτωρ της Ιατρικής σχολής Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών με Εξειδίκευση στην Ελάχιστα Επεμβατική, Λαπαροσκοπική και Ρομποτική Χειρουργική του πεπτικού συστήματος, των κηλών του κοιλιακού τοιχώματος και των παθήσεων του πρωκτού. Εξειδικεύτηκε σε πολυάριθμα νοσοκομειακά κέντρα της Ευρώπης και Αμερικής, έχοντας ολοκληρώσει πολυάριθμα διεθνή εκπαιδευτικά courses και μεταπτυχιακά προγράμματα. Ομιλητής και εισηγητής πολυάριθμων διαλέξεων καθώς και πρόεδρος σε στρογγυλές τράπεζες σε πάρα πολλά έγκριτα Ελληνικά και Διεθνή συνέδρια και Χειρουργικά Forums από το 2002 μέχρι σήμερα, με ιδιαίτερα σημαντική παρουσίαση ερευνητικών και κλινικών εργασιών και ανακοινώσεων σε όλο τον κόσμο. Τα τελευταία χρόνια είναι πιστοποιημένος, επίσημος εκπαιδευτής (Instructor) της Ελληνικής Χειρουργικής Εταιρείας (ΕΧΕ), επιτελώντας σημαντικό έργο στην εκπαίδευση των νέων χειρουργών. Το 2011 εξειδικεύτηκε για πρώτη φορά στα πρώτα ρομποτικά χειρουργικά συστήματα, ενώ το 2018 έλαβε μετά από πολύμηνη εξειδίκευση τον τίτλο του Ρομποτικού Χειρουργού (Console Surgeon) από το Διεθνές Ινστιτούτο Ρομποτικής Χειρουργικής R.A.I.N (Naples, Italy). Από το 2008 εκλέγεται σταθερά στο ΔΣ της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Ενδοσκοπικής Χειρουργικής, ενώ το 2023 εκλέχθηκε στη θέση του A' Αντιπροέδρου. Επίσης, είναι τακτικό μέλος πολλών άλλων Ελληνικών και Διεθνών Ιατρικών επιστημονικών εταιρειών. Τα τελευταία 8 χρόνια έχει υπερεξειδικευτεί στη Χειρουργική των κηλών και την αποκατάσταση του κοιλιακού τοιχώματος. Εξειδικεύτηκε κοντά σε μεγάλους δασκάλους και πρωτοπόρους χειρουργούς κηλών, χειρουργώντας μαζί τους, σε μεγάλα νοσοκομειακά κέντρα Ευρώπης και Αμερικής (Igor Belyanski - Maryland USA, Victor Radu - Bucharest Romania, Frederik Berrevoet - Ghent Belgium, Tim Tollens - Bonheiden Belgium, Ralph Lorenz - Berlin Germany). Είναι ο Χειρουργός που πρώτος έφερε στην Ελλάδα και εφάρμοσε σε πάρα πολλούς ασθενείς τις πρωτοποριακές τεχνικές ONSTEP για την βουβωνοκήλη το 2013, και τις επαναστατικές ρομποτικές τεχνικές eTEP και eTEP-TAR το 2019 για μεγάλες και σύνθετες μετεγχειρητικές κοιλιοκήλες, όπως τις διδάχθηκε από τους επινοητές των μεθόδων Igor Belyanski και Victor Radu. Το 2019 πιστοποιήθηκε και έλαβε τον τιμητικό τίτλο του Master Surgeon of Excellence στη Χειρουργική κηλών του κοιλιακού τοιχώματος από τον μεγαλύτερο ανεξάρτητο φορέα Χειρουργικών πιστοποιήσεων στον κόσμο, τον SRC (Surgical Review Corporation). Ο ίδιος φορέας πιστοποίησε και το Metropolitan Genral ώς κέντρο Αριστείας στη Χειρουργική κηλών του κοιλιακού τοιχώματος, Σε αυτό το κέντρο Αριστείας ο Δρ. Αρχοντοβασίλης είναι Διευθυντής και Επιστημονικά υπεύθυνος. Έχει 18ετή θητεία στον ιδιωτικό τομέα Υγείας, ενώ από το 2015 είναι Διευθυντής Χειρουργικής κλινικής σε ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα ιδιωτικά Θεραπευτήρια, το Metropolitan General, με την υποστήριξη του Ομίλου HHG - Metropolitan.

Kelgiorgi Dionysia MD, MSc is a General Surgeon with a private practice in Chalandri. She holds a Master's Degree in "NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN DIGESTIVE SURGERY – MINIMALLY INVASIVE TECHNIQUES – BARIATRIC SURGERY" from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She is currently an instructor in this postgraduate program at the University of Athens. She has received certification in laparoscopic surgery from the internationally renowned IRCAD center of excellence in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Strasbourg. She is also certified in the use of surgical lasers from a reference center for perianal diseases in Leipzig, Germany. Her expertise includes Minimally Invasive Surgery (Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, Surgical Laser), as well as surgical oncology. She has served as a Consultant Surgeon in the Robotic Surgery and Surgical Oncology Clinic at Metropolitan General and held the same position for three years at Euroclinic Athens. Furthermore, she was a Consultant Surgeon at the certified Center of Excellence for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery at Euroclinic Athens. She is a member of Greek and European scientific societies, including the European and Hellenic Societies of Endoscopic Surgery, the European and Hellenic Hernia Societies, the European Society of Coloproctology, and the Hellenic Surgical Society, actively participating in their advanced training courses. She has numerous participations in conferences, seminars, and symposia in Greece and abroad and serves as a reviewer for the medical journals Cancer Medicine and Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International.

Kampouroglou Georgios is a Pediatric Surgeon practicing professionally in Athens. He was admitted first in the nationwide entrance examinations to the Medical School of the University of Athens, and during his studies, he received relevant scholarships. As part of his training in Pediatric Surgery, he trained and worked in Switzerland (Geneva University Hospitals, Jura, Nyon) and at the "Agia Sofia" Children's Hospital in Athens. He specialized in laparoscopic, percutaneous, and minimally invasive pediatric surgery in Switzerland (Geneva, Davos) and Strasbourg (IRCAD), as well as in digestive endoscopies (Agia Sofia Hospital and IRCAD, Strasbourg). During his training at the University Hospital of Geneva, he focused particularly on Pediatric Urology and Liver and Biliary Surgery in children. The physician holds a doctorate from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and also possesses a postgraduate degree in Surgical Anatomy. He has a substantial record of research and publication (participation in research groups, numerous international and Greek publications, chapters in scientific textbooks, presentations, and lectures at international and Greek conferences). He serves as a reviewer for international scientific journals and teaches First Aid courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He also serves as the Deputy General Secretary of the Society of Medical Studies.

Dr. Ioannis Virlos is a General Surgeon who maintains a private practice in Glyfada. He graduated from the Medical School of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, obtaining his medical degree in 1990. In 2000, he earned a Master’s degree in Surgical Sciences (MSc in Surgical Sciences) as well as a Diploma from Imperial College London (Diploma Imperial College), United Kingdom. In 2009, he was awarded a Doctorate (Medical Doctorate) from the University of Manchester, UK.He has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd.) since 1998 and of the Intercollegiate Board in Surgery of the United Kingdom (FRCS (Gen Surg)) since 2008. Since 2011, he has been a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery in the field of Colorectal Surgery (FEBS (Coloproctology)).Dr Ioannis Virlos is a specialized colorectal and bariatric surgeon, also trained in minimally invasive surgery — both laparoscopic and robotic. He has received training not only in Greece but also in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Belgium.After completing his military service in 1992, he trained in General Surgery in hospitals in Athens and the United Kingdom between 1992 and 1999, obtaining his specialty title in General Surgery in 1999. From 2002 to 2012, he served as a surgical consultant in hospitals in the UK, Australia, Belgium, and Greece. Specifically, he worked at the following hospitals in the UK: North Middlesex, Arrowe Park, Derriford, Torbay, Exeter, Cheltenham, and North Bristol, as well as at Sir Charles Gairdner University Hospital in Perth, Australia, and Sotiria Hospital in Athens (as Senior Consultant).During the same period, he received advanced training in laparoscopic colorectal surgery and laparoscopic bariatric surgery at Singleton Hospital in Swansea, UK, and Heilighart Ziekenhuis in Roeselare, Belgium.From 2012 to 2021, he worked as a Consultant Surgeon at the following hospitals in the UK: Ealing Hospital, Homerton University Hospital, John Radcliffe & Churchill Hospitals in Oxford, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Northampton General Hospital, and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. He returned to Greece in 2021.Since 2023, Mr. Virlos has been the Director of Surgery at Metropolitan General Hospital in Athens. He also serves as the General Secretary of the Hellenic Society of Coloproctology. Finally, for the period 2025–2028, he will represent Greece at the European Society of Coloproctology.

Georgios Bpagias is a General Surgeon, PhD holder from the Medical School of Athens. He completed his medical studies at the Medical School of Athens with "Excellent" marks and undertook his specialty training in Greece and Germany (university clinics of general surgery and transplantation in Hannover and Essen). Concurrently, he completed his doctoral thesis on short bowel syndrome also with "Excellent" marks, while specializing in minimally invasive colorectal surgery at the University of Strasbourg, with an emphasis on modern laparoscopic techniques. Subsequently, he completed specialization in pelvic floor disorder management at the University of Venice.

In his clinical practice, he manages general surgery cases covering a broad spectrum, from minor procedures and routine laparoscopic surgeries to specialized colorectal and pelvic floor surgeries. His primary concern is responsible and evidence-based consultation on all surgical issues, aiming for appropriate guidance and making safe therapeutic decisions.

He maintains active scientific involvement, participating predominantly as a speaker and trainer in international, as well as pan-European and Greek scientific conferences. Additionally, he is the author of numerous scientific publications in international journals indexed in PubMed, reflecting his continuous engagement with scientific documentation and the advancement of surgery.

His philosophy is based on the proper and personalized evaluation of each case, evidence-based decision-making, and the avoidance of unnecessary surgeries when not required. Special emphasis is placed on clear, honest, and understandable communication with the patient, to ensure active participation in the therapeutic process and to foster a sense of safety and trust.

Dr. Oikonomou Xristianna is a General Surgeon with private practices in Ampelokipi and Cholargos. She graduated from the Medical School of Athens, where she also completed a postgraduate program. She specialized at the 1st Surgical Clinic of 417 NIMTS. Dr. Oikonomou serves as an Attending Surgeon at the 5th Surgical Clinic of Metropolitan General, while in her practice she manages a wide range of cases, always focusing on providing the best possible care tailored to the individual needs of each patient.