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Medical Academy of Sofia – High Medical Institute – Medicine
(1984-1991)

• Useful modification of the Menghini needle blind liver biopsy’ (1996 – Panhellenic Congress of Gastroenterology).
• ‘Octreotide is a useful auxiliary agent in the performance of colonoscopy’ (1996 – Panhellenic Congress of Gastroenterology)
• ‘Proteoferric iron appears to be more active than ferrous sulfate in the treatment of anemia in patients with gastric bleeding receiving HCL secretion inhibitors’. (1997 – Panhellenic Congress of Gastroenterology).
• ‘Fibrovascular polyp – Benign intraesophageal tumor’ (Gastroenterological Chronicles – 1997,6(2): 24-26).
• ‘Colon and rectal cancer’. (monthly newspaper of the Municipality of Korydallos, Dimoskopio – January-February 1997)

. • ‘Peptic ulcer’. (magazine of the Municipality of Korydallos – Municipal Clinics – 1998). • ‘Cretan experience with Manning’s criteria in the irritable bowel syndrome {IBS}’- (Digestion 1998;3:742).

• ‘Correlation of tolerance and administration of sedation in lower digestive endoscopy’. (Pancreatic Medical Conference – 1998).
• ‘Tolerability and effectiveness of preparation with polyethylene glucose solution for colonoscopy’. (Panhellenic Gastroenterology Conference – 1998).
• ‘Progressive increase in symptomatic acute hepatitis A over the last five years in Crete’. (Panhellenic Gastroenterology Conference – 1998).
• ‘Response of relatives with colon cancer to a screening program’. (Panhellenic Gastroenterology Conference – 1999).
• ‘Stomach cancer – the experience of the PA laboratory of G.P.A.N.P “METAXA” from the study of 90 cases’. (7th Panhellenic Congress of Pathological Anatomy – April 2000).
• ‘Negative response of colorectal cancer patients on a suggested prevention program’. (1st Pan-European Oncology Congress – June 2000)
• ‘Gastric Cancer – 10 years experience of our laboratory’. (1st Pan-European Oncology Congress June 2000). • ‘Predisposing factors for the development of a severe degree of actinic colitis in patients undergoing ACS in the pelvic region’. (20th Panhellenic Congress of Gastroenterology – November 2000).
• ‘A rare case of obstructive small bowel ileus from metastatic lung adenocarcinoma’. (20th Panhellenic Congress of Gastroenterology – November 2000).
• Original research article: “Immunohistochemical assessment of basement membrane components in colorectal cancer: prognostic implications.”

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Member of:

• the Medical Association of Athens,
• the Hellenic Gastroenterology Society,
• the Hellenic Society for the Study of the Liver (EEMI),
• the Hellenic Society for the Study of Helicobacter pylori,
• the Hellenic Society of Digestive Oncology,
• the Professional Association of Gastroenterologists of Greece (EPEGE),
• the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE),
• the European Board of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (EBGH).