Ioannis Kalavritinos ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON Director, 4th Orthopaedics Department

• 1991 Athens University Medical School Ph.D.

• College of Greek Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Greek Orthopaedic Society
• Greek Society for Vascular Surgery

02/1985 – 11/1985 Head of Healthcare at NATO Headquarters, Naples, Italy
10/1985 – 11/1985 Visiting doctor (Visiting Physician) at the US Naval Hospital in southern Europe
03/1986 – 11/1987 Term Rural Clinic in Marpissa Paros (responsible for a population of 3,000 people)
03/1988 – 9/1988 profession in hospital “Health”
10/1992-continues profession in hospital “Health”
2004-2008 Director of 1sth Orthopaedic Hospital, “IASO GENERAL»
2008-continues Director of 4th Orthopaedic Clinic “Hygeia” hospital, Athens

Education Experience:
Medical Education Master:

• 10 / 1987-05 / 1988 Graduate seminar in Vascular Surgery (after qualifying exams), Athens
• 1990 Orthopaedic Department Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, USA
• 1991 Orthopaedic Department, Sports injuries, Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
• 1994 Orthopaedic Department of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
• 1999 Post training Orthopaedic Surgery program in Glasgow University, Scotland
• 2000 Post Graduate training program on Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, St. Joseph Hospital, Essen, Germany
• 2001 Advanced training programm on Shoulder Arthroscopic Surgery, Orthopaedic Department of Royal Hospital, Liverpool, England (Prof. Frostik)

Clinical Interest:

• Total hip replacement, knee, shoulder
• Revision hip replacements, knee, shoulder
• Catchers fractures (contemporary art)
• Arthroscopy ankle, knee, shoulder
• Surgery spine (microdiscectomy, spinal fusion)
• Surgical treatment toe valgus (bunions)
• Surgery foot (metatarsals fall, Morton, complex deformations)
• Hand surgery and microsurgery
• Sports injuries (rehabilitation ligament injuries, cartilage transplantation, stem cells, growth factors)
• Traumatology

Research Interest:

• The contribution of the medial and lateral collateral ligament in the stability of the elbow
• Radioisotope study of total hip arthroplasty.
• Release of antibiotics in vivo bone cement enriched with quinolones
• Study of the mechanical properties and porosity of the enriched bone cement quinolones
• The effect of anaesthesia with halothane in cement-bone bond acrylate. Experimental study

• Translation of the book of Orthopaedics «Appley Greek”

• Osteoid osteoma Hand. case description, review of the literature.56th National Conference, Greek Company of Orthopedics and Traumatology
• Operative Treatment of type C intraarticular fractures of distal humerus: the role of stability achieved by surgery on final outcome. Injury, 1995; (26) 3
• Tissue concentration of 3rd generation cephalosporines (ceftazidime and ceftriaxone) in lower extremity using a tourniquet. Archeive of Orthopedic Trauma Surgery, 1994; (113) 3
• Congenital indifference to pain: case report. Acta Orthopaedica Hellenica, 1989; (40) 3: 134-140.