Doctors with experience in Kidney stones

Stelios Xintzoglou MD, FEBU is a Urologist - DaVinci Robotic Surgeon specializing in prostate, bladder, and kidney surgery. He is fellowship trained at the largest Uro-Oncology centers in the United Kingdom over a decade. For the past 4 years, he worked as an NHS Consultant (Director level) before returning to Greece. He has performed and participated in more than one thousand robotic surgeries with a concurrent specialized clinical interest in General Urology, Prostate Hyperplasia, and Lithiasis. He has served as a Robotic Surgery trainer for fellow urologists as well as nursing staff. 

Specifically, he specialized at the University College London Hospital (UCLH), ranked 7th among the Best Specialized Urology Hospitals worldwide for 2023 and 2024 according to Newsweek magazine. He also trained at Royal Surrey Hospital, one of the leading robotic pelvic urology centers with the highest case volume in the UK, where he also worked as a Consultant. Additional clinical experience was acquired in Cambridge, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Lincoln. 

He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Patras and completed his specialty training at Hippokration Hospital of Thessaloniki in 2014 before relocating to the United Kingdom. In the same year, he obtained the European Board of Urology certification (Fellow of the European Board of Urology, FEBU). 

Dr. Stauroulopoulos Aristeidis is a Nephrologist, Director of the Nephrology Institute of Athens Nephroexpert, and Director of the Pan Health Group. He manages patients from all over Athens as well as from the provinces, with clinics in Moschato, Agios Dimitrios, and Egaleo. He graduated top of his class from the Medical School of the University of Crete and has extensive experience in Nephrology both in Greece and abroad. He is recognized as a scientist with international activities, serving as an evaluator and member of health program funding committees of the European Union in Brussels. Additionally, he served as Consultant in the Nephrology and Transplantation Department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and as a Nephrologist at Guy's Hospital, King's College, London, UK. He collaborates with the Chronic Hemodialysis Units Bionephros (Moschato), NEKAD (Agios Dimitrios), NEKAS (Sparta), and the Metropolitan Hospital (Faliro) and Vouyiouklakeio Hospital (Egaleo). He has a rich scientific portfolio with numerous distinctions, publications, and presentations both in Greece and internationally. In the clinics and units he directs, he addresses all nephrological issues, implements the most advanced hemodialysis methods, and pioneering techniques such as the use of lung ultrasound to assess patients' hydration status. He provides voluntary services at the Medical Clinics of the Municipality of Kallithea. Finally, Dr. Stauroulopoulos is a member of the Athens Medical Association, the Hellenic Society of Nephrology, the European Society of Nephrology, and the International Osteoporosis Foundation, and has also served as Treasurer of the Hellenic Society of Nephrology.

Dr. Zarakovitis Ioannis FEBU is a Urologist - Andrologist with a private practice in the Zografou area since 2001. He is a valedictorian Doctorate holder and a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Patras. He began his training in Urology at the 2nd Pediatric Surgery Clinic of the General Children's Hospital of Athens "P. & A. Kyriakou," continued at the University Urology Clinic of the University Hospital of Patras, and completed it at the Urology Clinic of Guy’s Hospital in London. He holds the European Board of Urology Diploma (FEBU) and the Greek urology specialty title, which he obtained after excelling in examinations. Currently, he is an exclusive collaborator of the Athens Bioclinic and the extracorporeal lithotripsy department of the "Errikos Dynan" Hospital Center. Throughout his career, he has also taught medical students for several years at the Universities of Patras and Thessaly. Additionally, he has served as a Consultant in the Urology Clinics of the University Hospital of Thessaly and the General Hospital of Elefsina "Thriasio." In his practice, with the support of modern equipment, he performs comprehensive examination and imaging of the genitourinary system, measurement of urine flow velocity, bladder catheterization, urethral dilations, and urethral stricture incisions. His exceptional theoretical training, ongoing medical education in the field of urology, and genuine interest in the patient ensure the provision of personalized services across a wide range of urological conditions.

Papadopoulos Ioannis is a Urologist - Andrologist with a private practice in Patras. He holds a degree in Medicine from the School of Health Sciences at the University of Patras. He specialized in the Urology Clinic of the University General Hospital of Patras. At his practice, the doctor provides the full range of urology and andrology services, such as prostate examination, cystoscopy, urinary tract infections, nephrolithiasis, phimosis, genital warts, infertility, varicocele, erectile dysfunction, etc.

Athanasios Rigopoulos is a Urologist - Andrologist with private practices in Patras and Nafpaktos. The doctor specialized in surgical urology at the University Regional Hospital of Ioannina and in surgical urology at the General State Hospital of Patras. In 2014, he completed his doctoral dissertation and obtained his PhD title. Additionally, he is the Scientific Director of the urology department as well as the urological surgeon at the privately-owned General Clinic Protoklitos in Patras. He also has extensive experience in transurethral prostate-bladder surgery using the TUR-is method. The doctor performs prostate biopsy procedures at the clinic using the most advanced BK Focus 400 urological ultrasound. Furthermore, he employs an innovative and pioneering treatment for Patras and Western Greece: a painless and effective shockwave therapy—Piezoelectric Shockwave Therapy—for erectile dysfunction, chronic pelvic pain—chronic prostatitis—and Peyronie's disease, using the latest PiezoWave 2 device from the German company Richard Wolf. Finally, the urological surgeon continuously updates himself on the latest and validated advancements and techniques from Greece and abroad, which he applies in daily medical practice.

Dr. Kolvatzis Merkourios is a Urologist - Andrologist and maintains his private practice in Veria. He holds a two-year postgraduate degree titled "Clinical and Surgical Anatomy (Applied Anatomy)" from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received further training in Endourology, Laparoscopic Surgery, and Laser Surgery for Lithiasis and Prostate at the Urological Clinic of Hospital Tenon in Paris, and has specialized in Robotic Surgery at the world-renowned “St Antonius Krankenhaus” center in Germany, where he simultaneously obtained the European Certification in Laparoscopic Surgery after examinations. Dr. Kolvatzis Merkourios is a PhD candidate at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He serves as a Scientific Collaborator of the Second University Urological Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at Papageorgiou General Hospital and has numerous free communications presented at international conferences in Europe and America.