TOSOUNIDIS Theodoros | International Program in Medicine

Contact Information

2810.39.2375 (Office)

I am an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the Medical School of the University of Crete, Greece, and I currently practice at the Orthopaedic Department of Heraklion University Hospital. I serve as the Deputy Clinical Director and the Head of Orthopaedic Trauma of the Orthopaedic Department of the Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece. I specialize in orthopaedic trauma and pelvic, as well as the total joint replacement of lower extremities.

I have completed my fellowship training in two world-renowned orthopaedic centres of North America, the first in “Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery” at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the second in “Lower Extremity Reconstruction and Trauma Surgery” at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I have also conducted another two short-term fellowships on Orthopaedic Trauma at the Leeds Major Trauma Centre, UK and on Primary and Complex Hip Arthroplasty at the Endoklinik of Hamburg, Germany.

Education

1992: Biology Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1993 – 1999: Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
July 2002 – April 2003: Residency period in General Surgery, Department of General Surgery
March 2004 – July 2004: Clinical attachment (Observership) in Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Division, Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 – 2009: Residency in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Universisty Hospital of Crete
February 2010 – May 2010: Trauma Fellowship in Leeds, Leeds General Infirmary
July 2010 – June 2011: Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
July 2011 – March 2012: Lower Extremity Reconstruction and Trauma Surgery, St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 2022 – July 2022: “Complex Primary and Revision Hip Arthroplasty”, Enkoklinik, Hamburg, Germany

Research Interests

My special clinical research interests include the management of polytrauma patients, the clinical outcomes after pelvic and acetabular reconstruction, modern techniques in pelvic and acetabular surgery, the patient-related outcome measures in orthopaedic trauma, the fluoroscopy use in fracture surgery, the orthogeriatric fracture care and surgical anatomical studies. I have been involved in the supervision of eight (8) PhD Theses at the University of Crete. One (1) of them was completed under my mentorship as the primary supervisor, and another one (1) as one of the co-supervisors. I am the primary supervisor in three (3) ongoing PhD Theses and in another three (3) as one of the supervisors. I am also the Head of the “Laboratory of Orthopaedic Research” of the Medical School of the University of Crete