Ioannis Halikias GENERAL SURGEON

• AD-HOC REVIEWER for peer-reviewed international journals

• 2013 – present: HYGEIA Hospital
• 2006 – present: Hygeias Melathron Hospital
• December 2005 – August 2006: Euroclinic Hospital

Education Experience: 

• May 2002 – June 2005: Resident, Evangelismos Hospital
• December 1999 – April 2002: Resident, 251 Air Force General Hospital

• Advanced Laparoscopy with special interest in Bariatric surgery

• Stamatiadis A, Halikias I. The water-filled rectum for sessile rectal polyps: a modification of the transrectal ultrasound technique. Dis Colon Rectum, (in press).
•  Sakorafas GH, Nissiotakis C, Chalikias I, Kotsifopoulos N, Stavrou A, Kassaras GA. Open preperitoneal mesh repair of recurrent inguinal and femoral hernias. Mt Sinai J Med 2005; 72 (5):342-5
• Vassiliki Poulaki, Constantine S. Mitsiades, Ciaran McMullan, Galinos Fanourakis,
• Joseph Negri, Athina Goudopoulou, Ioannis X. Halikias et al. Human Retinoblastoma Cells Are Resistant to Apoptosis Induced by Death Receptors: Role of Caspase-8 Gene Silencing. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005; 46 (1): 358-66.
• Sakorafas GH, Halikias I, Nissotakis C, Kotsifopoulos N, Stavrou A, Antonopoulos C and Kassaras GA. Open tension – free repair of inguinal hernias; the Lichtenstein technique. BMC Surgery 2001; I: 3
• Halikias IX and Tolis G. Dysthyroidism and gonadal function. Middle East Fert Soc J 1998; 3: 9-21
• Halikias I, Lytras A, Syriou V and Tolis G. Combined oral contraceptives and gonadotropin releasing hormone agonistic analogs in polycystic ovary syndrome: clinical and experimental studies. Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care 1997; 2(4): 213-24.
• Dourakis SP, Halikias IX, Vlachopapadopoulou E and Tolis G: “Can the pill be given to women with particular needs? Sickle cell disease, thalassemia and liver disease”, in “Evidence – guided prescribing of the pill”, Edited by Hannaford PC and Webb AMC, The Royal College of General Practitioners, The Manchester Research Unit, 1996, 283-97, Parthenon Publishing Group.
• 7Dendrinos GK, Halikias J, Krallis PN, Asimakopoulos A. Factors influencing neurological recovery in burst thoracolumbar fractures. Acta Orthop Belg 1995; 61(3): 226-34.