Doctors with experience in Kidney stones

Panagiotis Kompotiatis is a nephrologist and Assistant Professor of Nephrology at the Mayo Clinic in the United States of America (USA). He specialized in nephrology at the Mayo Clinic and in pathology at Bridgeport Hospital, Yale School of Medicine (USA). He has worked as a nephrology attending physician at the Mayo Clinic. He graduated from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2021, he returned to Greece. He is a scientific collaborator of the Nephrology University Clinic of Laiko Hospital and continues his research activities in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic. Concurrently, he maintains a private practice and collaborates with the largest private hospitals in Athens. He has an extensive research portfolio with numerous publications and presentations at international conferences.

Gorgoraptis Petros MD, FEBU, is a Urological Surgeon-Andrologist who maintains a private practice in Heraklion, Crete. The physician specializes in issues of Infertility. He is a graduate of the Medical School of Crete and began his specialization in Urology at Venizeleio Hospital of Heraklion. He continued his specialization at the University Hospital of Heraklion and completed his training at Hippocrates Hospital of Athens, where he obtained his Urology Specialty title. He is a member of the Hellenic and European Urological Associations and holds the title of Fellow of the European Board of Urology. During his career, he has served as an Associate Consultant at General Hospital Erythros, where he gained valuable surgical experience in Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Urology and organized the Andrology and Infertility clinic. He has participated in international, European, and national conferences and has publications in scientific journals. Finally, minor surgical procedures are performed at the clinic.

Papadogiannakis Apostolos is a Nephrologist who maintains private practices in the Museum area and in Agia Paraskevi. A graduate of Medicine, he completed his specialty training at the University General Hospital of Heraklion, the General Hospital of Heraklion "Venizeleio," and the General Hospital of Athens "Laiko." He has served as First and Second Consultant of the Nephrology Department at the General Hospital of Heraklion "Venizeleio," as well as Deputy and Coordinating Director of the same hospital. He has also been the Scientific Director of the Nephrology Unit at Nefrocenter. Throughout his extensive career, he has participated in numerous conferences and has an extensive record of publications. In his private practice, fully aligned with modern practices and medical methods, he manages a wide range of cases, specializing in nephrolithiasis, chronic kidney disease, and diabetic nephropathy.

Georgopoulos Ioannis MD, FEBU is a Urologist - Andrologist and maintains a private practice in Piraeus. He is a graduate of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with a specialization in Urology from the Urological Clinic of the University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, and the Urological Clinic of the General Hospital of Rhodes. Alongside his private practice, he serves as a Scientific Associate at Metropolitan Hospital, My Clinic Mykonos Health Spot, and the General Hospital of Aegina "Agios Dionysios". Additionally, he is a Fellow of the European Board of Urology and a member of the Hellenic Urological Association and the Piraeus Medical Association.

Kalogeropoulos Petros MD, PhDc is a Nephrologist with private practices in Chalandri and Argos. He holds a medical degree from the Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace and is a doctoral candidate, with a dissertation titled "The effect of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors on renal function in patients with primary glomerular diseases in remission" at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During his specialty training, he was trained in all areas of Nephrology (clinical nephrology, glomerular diseases, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, transplantation, routine outpatient clinics for chronic kidney disease, polycystic kidney disease, and follow-up of recent transplant patients), in the placement of central venous catheters under ultrasound guidance, in performing native kidney and renal graft biopsies, in urine sediment analysis, and in renal ultrasound imaging. Since December 2025, he has been practicing as a Nephrologist at M.C.A. “IKA”. Concurrently, he worked from June 2021 to November 2025 as a Nephrologist at M.C.A. “Polyxenia Renal” and from 2022 to 2024 as an Academic Fellow at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens within the Nephrology Unit of the 2nd Propaedeutic Internal Medicine Clinic at the General University Hospital "Attikon", engaging in clinical, teaching, and research activities. He has attended numerous Greek and international conferences, having also participated as a speaker. Finally, he has numerous publications in international journals and serves as a reviewer for Clinical Kidney Journal and Cureus.

Dr. Stournaras Periklis MD is a Surgeon Urologist - Andrologist with a private practice in Ilioupoli. He has specialized in the Surgical Clinic and the Urological Clinic of the General Hospital "Polyclinic of Athens." He has been trained and has performed numerous surgical procedures concerning general and specialized urological issues, as well as in modern urology covering all contemporary therapeutic and surgical methods (endourology, laser, andrology, urinary incontinence, urolithiasis, oncology, laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery). Since 2002, he has maintained a private practice in Ilioupoli, offering his patients the most advanced therapeutic methods and techniques in the field of urology. In the past, he served as Consultant of the Urological Clinic at the "Metropolitan" Hospital. Currently, he collaborates with REA Obstetrics - Gynecology Clinic, Metropolitan Hospital, and West Athens Clinic. Finally, Dr. Stournaras has participated in numerous seminars, presentations, and lectures both in Greece and abroad and has a comprehensive portfolio of publications in foreign languages.

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.