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Ioannis Toumpoulis
Ioannis K. Toumpoulis, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background
University of Ioannina Medical School (M.D. 1999)
University Hospital of Ioannina assistant Resident in Cardiac Surgery (1999-2001)
University Hospital of Ioannina General Surgery Residency (2001-2003)
University of Ioannina Medical School (Ph.D. 2004)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Cardiovascular Fellowship (2003-2004)
Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens Thoracic Surgery Residency (2004-2006)
Attikon University Hospital of Athens Cardiac Surgery Residency (2006-2007)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, AATS Graham Fellow (2007-2008)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Instructor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2009-2013)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School (Ph.D. 2014)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2014-today)
Mouwasat Hospital Center, Dammam KSA, Consultant of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chief Medical Officer (2017-today)
Other Interests
Risk stratification and long-term outcomes in thoracic surgery
General thoracic surgery
Aortic aneurysm surgery
Experimental models of aortic aneurysms
Ischemic preconditioning for spinal cord protection
Risk stratification and long-term outcomes in cardiac surgery
Molecular biology of lung cancer
Etiology of aortic aneurysms
Heart valve surgery
Coronary artery bypass grafting
Practice Areas
- Cardiac
- Thoracic
- Aorta
- Aortic valve disease
- Basic science
- Cancer
- Cardiac
- Professional Affairs
- Chest wall
- Coronary disease
- Education
- Ethics
- Extracorporeal circulation
- Great vessels
- Heart failure
- History
- Lung
- Mechanical circulatory assistance
- Mediastinum
- Benign disease
- Medical technology
- Minimally Invasive
- VATS
- Mitral valve disease
- Pericardium
- Pleura
- Infection
- Thoracic
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Valve disease
- Transcatheter