Nikolaos Christodoulou
Chief Director of Orthopedic
Athens Medical Group
Greece
Biography
Nikolaos Christodoulou is Chairman of Orthopedic Surgical Department in Iatriko Psychikou Clinic - Athens Medical Group (Greece). He has studied medicine in the University of Athens having succeeded the Greek National Scholarship IKY. He had courses in internal medicine by “Exchange Program of Students†in Frankfurt University in Germany, the experience of a biostatistics annual program of the University of Athens and a stage in the post of Assisted Researcher in Research Cancer Center “G. Papanikolaou†in Athens. He was specialised in orthopedic surgery in Asclepeion Orthopedic Hospital of Hellenic Red Cross. He has been Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon in Asklepeion Orthopedic Hospital at Athens in1983-1985 and received his PhD from the University of Athens in 1985 concerning the influence of intrinsic factors in the anatomical pattern and location of fractures of the proximal femur. He has been also Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon-Orthopedic Department of Korinthos Hospital, Greece (1985-1989), Chief Clinical Director, Orthopedic Department of Karpenissi Hospital, Greece (1989-2009), Chief Clinical Director, Orthopedic Department of “White Cross†Hospital, Athens, Greece (2009-2011) and from 2011 Chairman Clinical Director of Orthopedic Department of Iatriko Psychikou Clinic - Athens Medical Group. He has published many clinical and research works accompanied by extensive citation concerning mainly Hip Fractures, Hip arthroplasties, High Hip Center technique in Congenital Hip Dislocation cases, Anterolateral Knee instability, Knee osteotomies, Hip, Knee and Foot External fixation, New MIS hip approaches and the ALMIS personal technique using a different surgical table and legs position during femoral exposure.
Research Interest
New ALMIS (Antero -Lateral Minimally Invasive Surgery) hip approach (personal technique); Arthroplasties in OA secondary to Congenital Hip Desease; High Hip Center Technique; Modern Hip and Knee Arthroplasties; Partial medial compartment knee arthroplasty; Patellofemoral arthroplasty; Surgical correction of legs deformities; Correction of spastic deformities; External Fixation of sub-trochanteric fractures and knee osteotomies (personal techniques and external fixators); Surgical correction of foot deformities.
Biography
Dr. Burkhard F. Leeb was born in Vienna on August 23rd, 1956. He received his specialization in rheumatology in 1994. He was appointed director of the newly established center for rheumatology, Lower Austria, at Stockerau Hospital in 1999. In collaboration with his co-workers he was able to establish this institution in Austrian rheumatology within a relative short time period. Aside this occupation Dr. Leeb had the honor to serve as president of the Austrian society for rheumatology and rehabilitation between 2008 and 2010, as well as a member and also as co-convenor of several EULAR task-forces, amongst them the ones for osteoarthritis and gout. Up to date Dr. Leeb has published more than 150 articles in peer reviewed journals, and in books, amongst them meta-analyses on chondroitin sulfate, and diacerein, EULAR response criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica, and a respective disease activity score.
Research Interest
His main scientific interests are arthritides, polymyalgia rheumatica, as well as osteoarthritis and above all the problems along with disease activity assessment.
Biography
Dr. Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert is basically from The Netherlands. He is a graduate of the Medical School, Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1993, he became Medical specialist with clinics in different locations; specialization: disorders such as systemic auto-immune diseases, vasculitis, foreign body reactions, immune defiencies and unsolved clinical problems. He was appointed as Head of the Immunology Laboratory as well as Medical specialist, Department of Internal Medicine, Reumatology and Gastro-enterology in University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht in 2000. In 2012, he was appointed as Research Director, Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland, Rotterdam. Previously he was working as Professor of Internal Medicine and Immunology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Currently he is serving as Professor in University of Alberta, and Director, division of Rheumatology, UA, Edmonton, Canada.
Research Interest
His main scientific interests are Internal Medicine and Immunology.
