Dimitrios Giotikas

Biography:

Mr Dimitrios Giotikas is a leading consultant surgeon in trauma and orthopaedics based in London, UK and Athens, Greece. He specialises in limb lengthening, management of bone infections, nonunions and limb deformities alongside knee surgery, complex orthopaedic trauma and stature increase treatment. In the UK, he privately practises at 10 Harley Street (Consulting Rooms) and Woodlands Surgery from 2012 until 2019 He worked full time for the NHS in some of the most prestigious  NHS trusts like Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Until 2020 he kept an honorary consultant post with Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for clinical research. He is highly qualified. He graduated from the Military Medical Academy of the Greek Army and from the Medical School of Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in Greece, beginning his career as a medical officer in the Hellenic Army. He was deployed in the war zone of Afghanistan and has served as commanding officer of medical units of the Marine special forces of the Greek Army. He then went onto specialise in trauma and orthopaedic surgery, qualifying in 2008, and then began his subspecialisation training in complex trauma and limb reconstruction at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In 2013, Mr Giotikas obtained prestigious membership of the Hellenic College of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeons, and three years later in 2016 he was awarded a PhD from the Medical School of University of Thessaly, Greece. His research into minimally-invasive techniques in total knee replacement. His PhD paper has received hundreds of citations. He is also a respected name in medical education, and in 2017 he was appointed as an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the Faculty of Medical Science at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. From 2014 until 2018 he was a tutor at Medical School of Cambridge University. He has also been a tutor for international specialty training trauma courses in Yangon, Myanmar. Further to his published PhD research, Mr Giotikas' work has been published in various peer reviewed journals and he is a member of various professional bodies. These include the British Orthopaedic Association, British Medical Association, British Limb Reconstruction Society, Hellenic College of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology and AO Trauma International. He is also registered with the General Medical Council since 2011 and has been revalidated most recently in 2021.