Memberships and Accreditations
He is one of the 220 Diplomates of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS) worldwide and has been awarded the experience route accreditation after written and oral exams in 2015. He has been successively elected treasurer, secretary, and Vice President to the Board of Governors of the ABHRS from 2017 to 2021. Since 2017, he has been one of the examiners in the ABHRS annual written and oral exams.
He is also a Fellow Member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), participating each year in the Annual World Congress of the ISHRS, often as a presenter or other. In the last decade he has taken an active part in dozens of conferences and scientific workshops concerning:
- the developments in hair transplantation,
- the evaluation and standardization of patients’ medical information,
- the organization of nursing teams,
- patient management
- the organization of a doctor’s practice and the use of new technologies for the evaluation / examination / information and treatment of hair transplant patients.
He offers his services as a non-profit member in various ISHRS committees for patient safety, but also in live surgery workshops for the specialization of young doctors who want to practice hair transplantation.
He is a founding member and President of the Hellenic Academy of Hair Restoration Surgery (ELAMAT- HAHRS), which is the national / local branch of ISHRS. ELAMAT is a non-profit company with founding members doctors of different specialties who are actively involved in Hair Restoration. It is the Global Council Member of the ISHRS, abiding to the principles, purposes, rules, and guidelines of ISHRS and ABHRS.
Through his active work in the global scientific communities of ABHRS and ISHRS, he has taken on positions and roles to protect patients against the growing activity of illegal hair transplant clinics and the problem of unlicensed non-physicians performing hair restoration surgeries and also, he works on to secure Institutional Principles of Medical Requirements, Standards and Procedures for Hair Transplantation.