On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 19.00, a live reception session of the Professor of Transplant Surgery Dr. Andreas Tzakis as a Full Member of the Academy of Athens at the chair “Medical Sciences” Surgery-Transplants” will be broadcast.
During the reception ceremony, in the presence of the President of the Academy of Athens Mr. Antonios Regkakos and the General Secretary Mr. Christos Zerefos, as well as other official guests, Academician Mr. Charalambos Roussos will present Mr. Andreas Tzakos deliver a speech on “Transplantations in Greece, 2022”.
The ceremony will be broadcast live to the public from the website of the Academy of Athens via the following link:
http://www.academyofathens.gr/el/lectures/20220517
Dr. Andreas Tzakis was born in Piraeus in 1950. He graduated in 1974 from the Medical School of the University of Athens. From 1978 to 1985 he specialized in Surgery and Transplants at Mt. Sinai and SUNY in New York, and at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. From 1985 to 2019 he served successively at all University levels and was elected Professor and Director of Transplantation at the University Hospitals of Pittsburgh, Miami, Cleveland, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio. In 1999 he received his PhD from the Medical School of the University of Athens.
He completed his clinical work in January 2019 and continues to this day his research work, which focuses on uterine transplants. He introduced for the first time in the world a uterine transplant from a dead donor. The result of his efforts was to achieve the first childbearing in the USA in 2019 with a transplanted uterus from a dead donor. His experience and contribution in the field of Surgery and especially Transplants is multiple. Among other things, he directed the pediatric transplant program at Pittsburgh Pediatric Hospital (1989-1994), where he developed the world’s first successful multiorgan transplant program. He is the Founding Director of the Miami Transplant Institute, and the program at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami has become world-renowned for its standard surgical techniques, such as abdominal wall transplants, bowel transplants, and treatment of patients with thrombosis and others. In 2001, the Kidney Transplant program began at the University of Patras in Greece.
He is a member of 21 internationally renowned scientific medical societies, including the American Surgical Association (300 members only), and has led 5 major professional organizations related to transplants and government policy-making in the field of transplants and other related health issues in the US.
During his career he has carried out remarkable research and writing work with numerous publications in scientific journals -more than 800 articles in the international literature and the highest recognition index (h-index) 103. At the same time, he has demonstrated significant teaching work, training surgeons around the world to perform complex surgeries and apply techniques in which he was a pioneer.
Dr. Andreas Tzakis has received numerous honors, such as an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Alexandroupolis and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He has been honored with the Boston Holy Cross Award and has been awarded by the House of Representatives. He was honored with the title “Archon” of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He was the first holder of the chair, named after him, “Tzakis chair of Transplantation” at the Miami Medical School in Florida, which was created in his honor. He has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records twice in 2000 (Millennium Edition p. 38: Most organs Transplanted in a single operation) and in 2001 (p. 179: Most organs Transplanted). In 2015 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens and during the meeting of the Plenary Session of June 17, 2021 he was elected a full Member of the Academy of Athens.
