KONSTANTINOS S. POLYZOIDIS
CURRICULUM VITAE
1st Department of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital
1, St. Kyriakidi Str., Thessaloniki Greece 54636
Tel: +30 2310 283373, +30 2310 994692 & +30 6977280073 Fax : +30 2310 994708
e- mail: kostapol@otenet.gr
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1949. Married, father of two medical doctors and an
economist.
He received elementary and higher education at the Experimental School of the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, graduation in 1967 with honors. The same year he received also the first National
Prize from the Greek Mathematical Society.
Graduation with honors from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in
1973.
Foreign Languages: English, French and German.
He received his neurosurgical training at the Medical School of the University of Thessaloniki, the
University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
He served as Chief Resident both at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and Emory
University in Atlanta.
He is qualified to practice neurosurgery in Greece (1980) and the USA, certified by the American
Board of Neurological Surgery (1987).
He has passed the ECFMG, VQE and FLEX examinations.
He is member of AANS, CNS, and EANS (American and European Neurosurgical Societies) and
13 greek scientific societies.
He received his Ph.D at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His thesis was on the narrow
lumbar spinal canal and passed with honors in 1992.
He has held the following positions:
1984 - 1999: In 1984 he organized and started the function of the Department of Neurosurgery of
the George Papanikolaou State Hospital of Thessaloniki, which was only the second neurosurgical
department of Northern Greece at that time (nowadays, there are seven). Several neurosurgical
procedures, which are now in routine use, were performed for the first time in Northern Greece in
that Department.
1999 - 2006: Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery of the
University of Ioannina. In 2005 he became Professor of Neurosurgery at the same University.
2006 - today: Professor of Neurosurgery at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1st Department
of Neurosurgery, AHEPA Hospital.
November 2008 – today: Chairman of the same Department
He was Visiting Professor of the “Neurochirurgische Klinik der Universitaet Erlangen-Nurberg”
Germany.
He has invited a several foreign professors to give scientific lectures in Greece, among them
Professor of Harvard University Peter Black, who was honored by the A.U.Th.
As the delegate of Greece at the Training Committee of the European Association of Neurosurgical
Societies (EANS) for four years, he has participated as a trainer in the weekly biannual training
courses of the EANS involving more than 200 trainees in Neurosurgery from all European
countries. He has given lectures and run discussion groups, covering all the main scientific topics of
the courses. He has also served as representative of Greece in the World Federation of
Neurosurgical Society (WFNS) for two years.
He has organized a two-day symposium on Neuroncology in Ioannina 2001, the 16th Panhellenic
Congress, in Ioannina 2002, and the summer 2005 EANS Course in Thessaloniki, which was
described by many participants as ‘the best ever’.
His research interests include the following:
He was cerebrovascular Research Fellow at the Emory University for one year (1982-1983),
director of the Neurosurgical Research Institute of the University of Ioannina from 2000 to 2009,
focused on the Molecular biology of brain tumors, and has been the principal investigator of seven
research projects, in the University of Thessaloniki which are supported by corresponding research
grants. These projects are dealing with the brain tumors, the magnetic properties of the spine and the
process of medical education. Total account of financial support: > 300.000€.
Author of 61 international (Pub-Med) and 18 greek publications with more than 500 international
citations. Has also authored 8 chapters in international books and 7 greek chapters and 7 review
papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He has puphished 32 abstracts in proceeding of
congresses and one review of book on Neurosurgery.
His managerial experience includes the following:
Director of the Department of Neurosciences (Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry) of the
Medical School of the University of Thessaloniki from 2010 – 2012 and member of the
Administrative Council of the School.
Member of the Administrative Council of Papageorgiou General Hospital the last 3 years
Director of the Department of Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital (January 2012)
Internal (elected) Member of the Board of Trustees (Council) of A.U.TH. (February 2013) and
chairs the Committee on the “constitution” of the University.
In 2012 he received the highest military distinction of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense for the
successful surgical management of a cerebral aneurysm in a Bulgarian sergeant of NATO force in
Kosovo