Dimitrios Moraitis GENERAL SURGEON Director, Head and Neck Department

• Correlation of smoking and carcinogenesis in the upper respiratory tracts. The role of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)

• Hellenic Association for Molecular Cancer Research, Athens
• Hellenic Society of Head and Neck Oncology, Athens
• Athens Medical Association
• British Medical Association, London, UK
• Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK
• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, USA
• American Head and Neck Society, USA
• American College of Surgeons, USA
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), USA
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, USA
• New York Medical College Surgery Association, New York, USA

• Surgery Lecturer, New York Medical College, USA
• Head & Neck Surgery Lecturer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Clinical Interest:

• Oncology of endocrine glands (thyroid and parathyroid glands)
• Salivary glands (parotid, submandibular glands)
• Mouth
• Buccopharynx
• Larynx
• Hypopharynx
• Skin carcinomas and head & neck melanoma 

Research Interest:

• Thyroid gland carcinogenesis & mouth/upper respiratory tract carcinogenesis

• Moraitis D, Karanikou M, Liakou C, Dimas K, Tzimas G, Tseleni-Balafouta S, Patsouris E, Rassidakis GZ, Kouvaraki MA. SIN1, a critical component of the mTOR-Rictor complex, is overexpressed and associated with AKT activation in medullary and aggressive papillary thyroid carcinomas. Surgery, 2014 Dec; 156(6): 1542-9.
• Kouvaraki MA, Liakou C, Paraschi A, Dimas K, Patsouris E, Tseleni-Balafouta S, Rassidakis GZ, Moraitis D. Activation of mTOR signaling in medullary and aggressive papillary thyroid carcinomas. Surgery, 2011; 150(6): 1258-65.
• D. Moraitis, A. R. Shaha. How I do it: Opening the”gift box”. A systematic approach to expose the superior thyroid vessels in complicated thyroid surgery. J Surg Oncol, 2006; 93(5): 417-9
• D. Moraitis, B. Du, M De Lorenzo, J.O. Boyle, B.B. Weksler, E.G. Cohen, J.F. Carew, N.K. Altorki, L. Kopelovich, K. Subbaramaiah, A.J. Dannenberg. Levels of COX-2 are increased in the oral mucosa of smokers. Evidence for the role of EGFR and its ligands. Cancer Res, 2005, 65(2): 1-7