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Charalambos Charitidis / Neurosurgeon

Charalambos Charitidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1978. He is a graduate of the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He specialized in Neurosurgery at the Neurosurgery Clinic of NIMT Hospital and worked as an Assistant Curator B at the Neurosurgery Clinic of “Asclepius Voula” in Athens.

From 2017 to 2021 he was Head of the Spine Department of IASO Children’s Hospital and then at the “Mother” Clinic. Since January 2018 he has been an External Associate of the 4th Neurosurgery Clinic of the Henri Dunant Hospital Center. In December 2022 he joined the Hellenic National Health Insurance.

From 2013 to 2018 he worked in London. In 2013-2014 he worked as a Specialist Registrar in the Neurosurgical Department of Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial NHS Trust. In 2014-2016 he completed his specialization in adult spine surgery as a Senior Complex Spine Clinical Fellow at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH Trust in London. In 2016-2018 he specialized in pediatric spine surgery as a Senior Complex Paediatric Spine Clinical Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. In 2018 and 2019 he worked as a Spinal Consultant at Brighton & Sussex University Hospital and Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

His areas of expertise are:

  1. Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery
  2. Degenerative Spondylitis, Spinal Stenosis, Herniated Disc, Spondylolisthesis, Degenerative Deformities
  3. Cervical Disc Herniation, Cervical Myelopathy
  4. Spinal Tumors (primary, spinal metastases, intradural tumors), Trauma, Osteoporotic Fractures, Spondylodiscitis
  5. Idiopathic Scoliosis (Early-Adolescent), Neuromuscular Scoliosis (Cerebral Palsy, Duchenne, Marfan, Ritter, CHARGE etc.), Congenital Scoliosis (hemivertebral discs, growth modulation), Kyphosis, Magnetic Rods (MAGEC rods)

International Postgraduate Seminars:

  1. European Spine Review & Cadaver Course 2019 (Trainer), 15-16 February 2019, Athens
  2. Endoscopic Spinal Surgery, Riwospine, 12-14 November 2018, Germany
  3. AO Spine Advanced Course, 6-7 November 2015, London
  4. De Puy Posterior Fixation Hands On Course, 27-28/04/2015, Newcastle
  5. Master Class Universal Clamp, 05/07/2010, Paris, France
  6. World Spine V & World Spine 2010 Hands On Course, 10-14/05/2010, Larissa, Greece
  7. Cervical Spine Hands On Course, 12-14/11/2009, Thessaloniki, Greece
  8. 1st European Spine Review and Cadaver Hands-On Course, 25/07-01/08/2008, Chersonisos, Crete, Greece
  9. EANS Research Course (Methodology of Research & Publication), 26-27/08/2005, Thessaloniki, Greece

Publications:

“Bolus entrapment in the lower esophagus in the context of vault surgery” N. Stampolidis, C. Charitidis, V. Patris, E. Tsochataridis, “Hellenic Surgery”, Volume 80, Issue 3, May-June 2008, pp. 157-160.

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for Kyphoscoliosis in a Patient With Parkinson’s Disease: A Case Report. Polythodorakis I, Brotis A, Charitidis C, Lycomitros V, Liveris I, Paterakis K. Cureus. 2023 May 23;15(5):e39397. doi: 10.7759/cureus.39397. PMID: 37362499; PMCID: PMC10286849.

“Management of painless cervical motor radiculopathy: a systematic review” Under peer review

“Hybrid circumferential fixation for degenerative lumbosacral spine disease: posterior lumbar interbody fusion plus universal clamp rod-band instrumentation: a novel technique for lumbosacral fixation” Tegos S, Charitidis C, Korovessis PG. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2014 Apr 1;39(7):E441-9

“Multifocal pyomyositis and meningitis after bone marrow biopsy in a diabetic patient” Charitidis C, Stampolidis N, Falidas E, Tsochataridis E., G Chir. 2011 Apr;32(4):185-7.