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Achievements of an Academic Bariatric Surgeon in Greece during the Last Two Decades
Alexandrou A, Dimitrokallis N* and Liakakos TDepartment of Surgery, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- *Corresponding Author:
- Nikolaos Dimitrokallis, MD, MSc
Department of Surgery
Medical School
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Iras 24, 11147, Galatsi-Athens
Attiki, Greece
Tel: +306977713023
E-mail: nikolaosdimitrokallis@gmail.com
Received date: December 22, 2016; Accepted date: December 29, 2016; Published date: December 31, 2016
Citation: Alexandrou A, Dimitrokallis N, Liakakos T (2016) Achievements of an Academic Bariatric Surgeon in Greece during the Last Two Decades. J Community Med Health Educ 6:492. doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000492
Copyright: © 2016 Alexandrou A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
During the last two decades morbid obesity has risen as a global epidemic and the concurrent advent of laparoscopic and robotic surgery has led to an unparalleled booming of bariatric surgery. As a result, bariatric surgery has risen from a rather peculiar surgical subspecialty to one of the main components of the surgical training curriculum. The first generation of minimally invasive bariatric surgeons has been stepping down worldwide after all these decades of tireless and pioneering work both in the clinical and academic setting. Consecutively the pillars of bariatric surgery in Greece resigned last year. This article tries to summarize and review the work of Professor Diamantis of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, whose efforts helped establish the modern era of bariatric surgery in Greece managing to follow the pace of progress worldwide, remaining seemingly unbound by the restrictions of this small country.
