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3rd Floor, HYGEIA Hospital, 4 Erythrou Stavrou Street, 15123 Athens
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Christos K. Georgalas
PhD, DLO, MRCS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), FEB(ORL-HNS) Hon
graduated with Magna Cum Laude from the University of Athens and trained in Otolaryngology in London (North Thames Rotation).
He completed a rhinology/facial plastic fellowship in Hopital Lariboisiere, Paris and Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, where he was appointed as faculty from 2007 to 2015. During that time he created and directed (with dr van Furth, Neurosurgeon) the first Endoscopic Skull Base Centre in Netherlands (ESA – Endoscopic Skull Base Centre, Amsterdam), a multi disciplinary Centre involving AMC, Vrij Universiteit Medical Center and National Cancer Institute.
He is the most highly cited Greek Otolaryngologist (more than 7000 citations (Scopus ) – 12000 Citations (Google Scholar) with more than 130 peer reviewed publications.
He is the editor of the textbook “Rhinology and Skull Base surgery” and “The Frontal sinus: Surgical approaches and controversies” by Thieme and has written chapters in a number of international books.
He has been an invited speaker and surgical tutor in international courses and workshops in 43 countries, and given more than 700 invited lectures, nationally and internationally.
He is the editor of International Consensus Statement: Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea and was one of the authors of EPOS (European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis) and the American Task Force of Rhinosinusitis Guidelines as well as the Anatomy and Terminology of Sinus surgery position paper.
He served in the International Editorial Board for Clinical Otolaryngology and was assistant editor for Rhinology Journal as well as the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy and was the National representative for Netherland at the European Rhinology Society from 2010 to 2015.
He is president of the Greek Rhinology Society (2022 – 2024) and a founding member and general secretary of the Hellenic Society of Head and Neck Oncology. He is currently working in Athens, in ESA – Endoscopic Skull Base Athens in Hygeia Hospital, as well as a full tenured Professor in Head and Neck surgery at St Georges Medical School Program at Nicosia University, Cyprus.
He is recognized as one of the leading international rhinologists – skull base surgeons with one of the most important academic works in Rhinology pan-European (more than 120 peer reviewed papers, with >5,000 citations (ISI – Scopus), H – index 27 (ISI-Scopus) / >10,000 citations / H – Index 38 (Google scholar), and chapters in dozens of international books as well as the international reference book Rhinology and Skull Base surgery, Thieme publications 2013. His certified surgical experience includes one of the largest rhinological experiences internationally, with more than 4,000 surgeries (official detailed lists of procedures from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Author of the European guidelines for the treatment of paranasal sinusitis (EPOS guidelines 2012) as well as the European guidelines for Surgical Anatomy of the Nose and Paranasal Sinusitis as well as the International guidelines for paranasal sinusitis (International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Rhinosinusitis 2016)
Director, Center for Endoscopic Paranasal and Skull Base Surgery, Hygeia Hospital
Scientific Associate, Center for Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Leiden University, Netherlands
National Representative of the Netherlands at the European Rhinological Society. (2009-2015)
Director, Center for Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam At the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, he worked as an associate professor upon invitation. At this University Hospital, he founded and directs the first Combined (ENT-Neurosurgery) Center for Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery in the Netherlands. In this center, doctors from seven specialties (ENT, neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, pediatricians, oncologists, radiologists, radiation therapists, endocrinologists) and three of the largest university hospitals in the Netherlands (AMC, VU Universiteit Medisch Centrum AvL – National Cancer Institute) collaborate. At this center, he performed (together with neurosurgeon Wouter van Furth) the first endoscopic transnasal complete removal of a craniopharyngioma in a child, as well as the first transnasal craniectomies and endoscopic removals of tuberculum sellae and olfactory crest meningiomas in the Netherlands.
Full Professor Surgery-Head and Neck, University of Nicosia Medical School
Associate Professor, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
Paris: 2006 / Amsterdam 2007 With a scholarship from the Royal College of Surgeons, he received further training in Endoscopic paranasal surgery and facial plastic surgery at the Lariboisiere Hospital in Paris and at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam.
Diplomate of Laryngology and Otology – Royal College of Surgeons of England DLO (Eng) – (after examinations)
Visiting Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Fellow in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain – (FRCS(ORL-HNS) – (after examinations)
Author of the international reference book Textbook of Rhinology and Skull Base surgery
Specialty title in Otolaryngology
Founder and director of the first endoscopic skull base surgery center in the Netherlands – and recognized as one of the pioneers of endoscopic skull base surgery worldwide. He performed the first transnasal craniotomy for intracranial neoplasm in the Netherlands as well as the first transnasal removal of meningioma.
He received the Diploma of Laryngology and Otology (DLO-RCS Eng.) in 2002. He then worked and gained significant experience in London for 6 years as a Specialist Registrar in some of the most important hospitals in Europe (St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial School of Medicine / St Barts Hospital, University College London) in all sub-specialties of ENT (rhinology, pediatric ENT, otology, head and neck surgery, facial plastic surgery) which he was certified in 2007 with the intercollegiate FRCS(ORL-HNS).
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh – MRCS (Ed) – (after examinations)
Surgeon – trainer in more than 60 practical seminars / workshops in 24 countries (USA, Great Britain, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Croatia, Malta, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Romania, Kuwait, Brazil, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Gaza/Israel, FYROM, Greece and Cyprus).
Secretary General and Founding Member of the Hellenic Society of Head and Neck Oncology (HSHO)
Secretary of the Hellenic Rhinological Society
Member of Editorial Board, American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy , Impact factor 1.96
Associate Editor of the Rhinology International Journal, impact factor 3.7.
International Editor of the journal Clinical Otolaryngology, impact factor 2.4
London: He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCS Ed) in 2001, while he completed his entire specialization in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in London, United Kingdom in one of the most distinguished rotations in the country, at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital (North Thames).
Field service (Vrachasiou Military Base, Lasithi) 1994-1995 and his military service (1996-1998)
Athens: He studied Medicine at the University of Athens, from where he graduated with honors in 1994.
