Professor Vassilis Hadjianastassiou

Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon at Bart's Health NHS Trust, UK and Professor of Surgery for the University of Nicosia in Cyprus

Country

United Kingdom

Speciality

Vascular Surgery

Subspeciality

Vascular surgery, Vascular Access Surgery, Kidney Transplantation Surgery

Experience

1997 years

Languages

English

Areas of expertise

Varicose vein laser ablation
Foam sclerotherapy
Clarivein
Micro-sclerotherapy for thread veins and haemangiomas
Carotid Artery Surgery
Spider veins
Carotid body tumour
Abdominal aortic aneurysms
Iliac and popliteal aneurysms
Peripheral bypass surgery for claudication or critical ischaemia
Laparoscopic hernia repairs
Simple and complex arterio-venous fistulas and grafts
Peripheral arterial bypass
Swollen legs
Peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion (open and laparoscopic)
Diabetic foot

About the expert

He currently works at the Royal London Hospital as consultant Surgeon. Mr Hadjianastassiou upgraded the surgical services, by introducing for the first time the techniques of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, Blood Group Incompatible Kidney Transplantation and Pancreatic Transplantation and for the first time in the Public Sector. Since then the Transplant Unit he founded has been the sole provider of transplant services in the Republic of Cyprus. In the 9 years that Professor Hadjianastassiou operated in Cyprus as the sole transplant surgeon, he personally transplanted 216 patients with the loss of only 12 grafts. He also introduced the first carotid endarterectomy under local anaesthesia and the first fenestrated EVAR for complex abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. He contributed to 56 research papers and reputable publications.

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Professor Vassilis Hadjianastassiou graduated from the Medical School of the University of Oxford, where he also completed his doctoral thesis in abdominal aortic aneurysms. He holds dual GMC accreditation in General Surgery and Vascular Surgery, having completed his specialist surgical training at the Oxford and London Deaneries.

He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Hospitals in 2007, where he also served as the Clinical Lead for pancreas transplantation. In 2011 he was recruited by the Cyprus Ministry of Health to restructure the system of Organ Transplantation in Cyprus and became the founding Medical Director of Transplantation there. He also served for 2 years as one of the two appointed experts in Vascular Surgery on the Government’s Advisory Committee.

Since 2013 he has held the position of full-time Clinical Professor of Surgery of the University of Nicosia Medical School. He has given numerous lectures in international meetings and has a significant number of scientific publications.

He introduced the first carotid endarterectomy under local anaesthesia, pancreatic organ transplant and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy as well as the first blood group incompatible kidney transplant and the first fenestrated EVAR for complex abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the advisory committee.

Clinical Professor of Surgery
2016 - Today
University of Nicosia
Vascular and General surgery consultant

Royal London Hospital, UK.
Consultant Vascular, General and Transplant Surgeon,

London Bridge Hospital
Clinical Director of Organ Transplantation
2011 - 2020
Nicosia General Hospital, Republic of Cyprus.
Consultant Surgeon in Renal and Pancreatic Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery.
2007 - 2011
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Vice president
2013 - 2014
Cyprus Transplant Council
Specialist Registrar in General Surgery
2001 - 2007
South-East Thames and Oxford Deaneries

Fellow of European Board of Surgery FEBS (Transplant) 

2016
Fellow of European Board of Surgery FEBS(Vascular Surgery)

2007
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS(General Surgery)

2007
● Certificate of Completion of Training in General Surgery (CCT)

UK Joint Committee and General Medical Council

2007
Doctoral Degree, Thesis in Risk stratification modelling in Aortic Aneurysms,

University of Oxford

2006
Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England MRCS

2000
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

University of Oxford.

1997

Treasurer at Executive Committee, Div. of Transplantation, UEMS & the European Board of Surgery (2017)
Executive Council Member at Cyprus Vascular & Endovascular Society. (2016)
Member of the Board of Directors & Member, Internal Audit Committee, Institute of Neurology & Genetics, CYPRUS. (2014)
Vice president of Cyprus Transplant Council (2014)
Member of the Court of Examiners, MRCS Exam, Royal College of Surgeons of England. (2013)
Member of the Court of Examiners, Div. of Transplant Surgery, UEMS & the Europ. Board of Surgery. (2012)
Representative of the Republic of Cyprus as an Expert, European Committee on Organ Transplantation, EDQM, Council of Europe, Strasbur. (2012)
Editorial Reviewer, Transplant International (Peer Reviewed Journal) (2011)