Athanasios D. Kleontas, (Thoracic Surgeon) BSc, MD, MSc, PhD, BTS

Surgeon - Cardiothoracic

Interbalkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki, Greece

BACKGROUND

Current Employment

06/2026 – today
Scientific Director of Thoracic Surgery Department
Theagenio Cancer Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
NHS

12/2019 – today
Scientific Director of B’ Thoracic Surgery Department
Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
Private Practice

2003 – today
Scientific Director in Ergobyte Information Technology S.A. of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Previous Employment

09/2016 – 11/2019
Consultant in Thoracic Surgery
Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
Private Practice

05/2016 – 08/2016
Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery
AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece (4 months)

12/2015 – 05/2016
Senior Specialist Registrar (SpR) in Cardiothoracic Surgery
AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece (5 months)

09/2012 – 12/2015
Clinical Fellow in Thoracic Department
St. James’ Institute of Oncology, University Hospital, The Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust, NHS, UK (3 months)

04/2012 – 09/2015
Senior Specialist Registrar (SpR) in Cardiothoracic Surgery
AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece (39 months)

04/2010 – 04/2012
Senior Specialist Registrar (SpR) in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Theagenio General Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece (25 months)

11/2008 – 03/2010
Specialist Registrar (SpR) in General Surgery
Theagenio General Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece (16 months)

02/2007 – 11/2008
Scientific associate in the Department of Pulmonary – Oncology
Theagenio General Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece (21 months)

OTHER INTERESTS

VATS
General Thoracic Surgery
Gene Therapy for Lung Cancer
Intrapleural Hyperthermic Perfusion
Endovascular Surgery
Esophageal Surgery
MITS
Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
Robotic Thoracic Surgery (RATS)

RESEARCH

Panacea, a Semantic-enabled Drug Recommendations Discovery Framework (2013-2015)
Investigator
Single center Clinical Study (2011-2014)Video-assisted Hyperthermic Pleural Chemoperfusion vs Talc Pleurodesis for Refractory Malignant Pleural Effusions.ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01409551Sub-investigator

Multicenter Clinical Study EPO-ANE-4001 (2006-2009)
Observational safety study of administration of erythropoietin in patients with anemia after chemotherapy for solid tumors
Sub-investigator

Multicenter Clinical Study C-TOR (2007-2008)
Tobacco Overview of Risk – C-TOR
Sub-investigator

Research Articles in International Scientific Journals (Peer Review)
38 publications in Pubmed (Medline) and 284 Citations, h-idex:10, i10-index:11 by Scholar

Abstracts in International Scientific Journals
Publications (5)

Research Articles in International Scientific Journals
Publication (1)

Abstracts in National Scientific Journals
Publications (20)

International
Oral Presentations (7)
Posters (12)

National
Oral Presentations (35)
Posters (20)

Invited Contributions

International
Reviewer (4)
Chapter in a book (1)
References in book (3)

National
Books (1)
Lectures (19)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

09/2024 – today

PostDoctoral Candidate

Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki