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Iakovos Nomikos

Visiting Assistant Professor, General Surgery

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School of Medicine

Visiting Professor

Academic Qualifications

Qualification Year Awarding Institution Department Thesis title (Optional Entry)
MD 1975 University of Athens Medical School  
PhD 1980 University of Athens Medical School

  Peritoneal  lavage with or without chloramphenicol in the treatment of diffuse peritonitis.  A prospective clinical  trial.

Doctorate thesis. Medical School of Athens University, Athens, 1980.

Published in :

Surgery 1986; 99: 20-25

Fellow American College of Surgeons (FACS) 1990 American College of Surgeons    
Assistant Professor 1994 University of Athens    

Employment History

Period of employment Employer Location Position
From To

Jan 2019

September 2019

Currently

Currently

Private Practice

  1. Metropolitan Gen Hospital
  2. Rea Maternity Hospital

European University Cyprus

Athens, Greece

Nicosia Cyprus

Collaborator

Scientific Collaborator

Jan 2004 Dec 2018

“METAXA Cancer Memorial

Hospital

Piraeus, Greece

Director & Chairman

Department of Surgery

May 1987 Jan 2004 “Tzanion” General Hospital Piraeus, Greece Associate Director, Department of Surgery

1989

1994

1994

2001

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Athens, Greece

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Lecturer in  Surgery

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Publications

Year Title Other authors Journal and Publisher /
Conference
2020  Iakovos N. Nomikos    Surgical Volunteerism  

Hell Cheirourgike. 2020; 92(1): 3–6. Published online 2020 May 27. doi: 10.1007/s13126-020-0533-z PMCID: PMC7251047

. (Published by Springer)

 

Iakovos N Nomikos

Surviving the COVID - 19 Pandemic Resurgence: Not Easy but Achievable.

  Hell Cheirourgike. 2020;92(5):155-158. doi: 10.1007/s13126-020-0567-2. Epub
2020  Iakovos N Nomikos  What Else but Covid-19 Pandemic? Lessons Learned   Hell Cheirourgike. 2020; 92(2): 41–45. Published online 2020 Jul 11. doi: 10.1007/s13126-020-0544-9PMCID:  PMC7352083
2020  Iakovos N. Nomikos The Importance of Resilience and Resolution in the COVID-19 Era. A             Surgeon’s View   Hell Cheirourgike. 2020; 92(3): 97-99. Published online 2020 Oct. doi: 10.1007/s13126-020-            0554-7 PMCID: PMC7569354
2019 , Nomikos IN  Social media networking in Medicine and Surgery  

Hellenic Journal of      Surgery 2019; 91 (3): 115-118.

 

2019  Nomikos IN   Surgery at the end of life. Is it necessary?     Hellenic Journal of Surgery 2019; 91 (2):  62-64. (Published by Springer)
2019

Nonikos IN. Personalized Medicine, Precision Surgical Oncology and the Surgeon’s Role.

 

 

Hellenic  Journal of Surgery 2018; 90 (4):169-171

Published by Springer

 

Karapanos Konstantinos, Nomikos Iakovos.

Current Surgical Aspects of Palliative Treatment for Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer.

   Cancers: 3, 636-651, 2011
  Nikolaos Perrakis, Evangelos Athanassiou, Dimitra Vamvakopoulou, Maria Kyriazi, Haris Kappos, Nikolaos C Vamvakopoulos, Iakovos Nomikos  Practical approaches to effective management of intestinal radiation injury: Benefit of resectional surgery    World J Gastroenterol 2011 September 21; 17(35): 4013-4016
  I N Nomikos, Y Wang, K J Lafferty: Involvement of O2 radical in “autoimmune” diabetes.  

 Immunology and Cell Biology 67: 85-87, 1989

( Pt1)(1).DOI:10.1038/icb.1989.12

 

I N Nomikos, S J Prowse, P Carotenuto, K J Lafferty:

Combined Treatment With Nicotinamide and Desferrioxamine Prevents Islet Allograft Destruction in NOD Mice.

 

Diabetes 135: 1302-1305, 1986

2/1986; 35(11). DOI:10.2337/diabetes.35.11.1302

 

I N Nomikos:

Is sepsis the only possible harmful consequence of splenectomy?.

 

New England Journal of Medicine 311: 198, 1984

08/1984; 311(3). DOI:10.1056/NEJM198407193110323

Exhibitions

Topic International / Local Location* Role in Exhibition

Papaioannou AN, Nomikos IN.

Complete axillary dissection may be detrimental to the host.  73rd Congress of American College of Surgeons.

International  San Francisco, October 1987 Co-Investigator

Omar Rawhi, Nomikos IN, Piccorelli G, Savino JA, Agarwal N.

Prevention of post ischemic liver cell injury by iron chelation.  III International Resuscitation Days - Survival Under Critical Life Conditions.

International Rome, Italy,1989. Principal Investigator (PI)

Nomikos IN, Notis F, Kyriakou K.

Intra-abdominal approach for complicated hernias of the inguinal region.

 78th Annual Congress of American College of Surgeons.

Iternational   New Orleans, October 1992. PI

Nomikos IN, Notis F, Kyriakou K.

 Surgical treatment of gynecomastia.

82nd Annual Congress of American College of Surgeons.

International San Francisco, October 1996.  

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Nomikos IN, Notis F, Kyriakou K.

Acute pancreatitis.  Where we are? 

79th Annual Congress of American College of Surgeons.

International San Francisco, October 1993. PI

Nomikos IN, Stratigos P, Farmakis N, Chimona Th, Papatheofanis J.

 Conditions affecting the delivery dependent oxygen consumption in critical illness.  XXXIIIrd Congress of European Society of Surgical Research, Posters and Videos Book, edited by P. Rigotti, p. 56.

International Padua, Italy, April 1998. PI

Nomikos IN, Vamvacopoulos NK.

Need for functional and specific treatment-responsive staging of acute surgical illness.

6th World Congress on Trauma, Shock,  Inflammation and Sepsis – Pathophysiology,  Immune Consequences and Therapy.

International Munich, Germany,  March 2004. PI

Perrakis N, Athanasiou A, Ntatsis K, Kyriazi Maria, Kappos Th, Boudouris J, Nomikos IN.

 

The changing template of retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in germ cell tumors. 96th Annual Congress of American College of Surgeons.  .

International Washington DC, October 3-7, 2010 Co-Investigator

Georgopapadakos N, Kalatzis Ch, Manoli Arezina, Papakitsou Fotini, Kokkinos Ch, Perakis N, Nomikos IN.

Neuroendocrine tumors. Quality of life and quantity of survival.

29th Panhellenic Congress of Surgery and International Surgical Forum.

Local / International November 12-15, 2014, Athens Greece PI

Kontis El. Perrakis N, Politidis V, Maniatis Ch, Ntatsis K, Nomikos IN

Right-Sided temporary loop colostomy. A simple and safe alternative to protective loop ileostomy after low anterior resection.

 

 American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress 2015

International Chicago, October 4-8 2015 Co - investigator

Research Projects

Date Title Funded by Project Role*

1985-1990

1986-1987

Basic Research

Transplantation Biology

Pancreatic Islet Transplantation for IDDM (mechanisms of graft destruction)

Ischaemia - reperfusion  injury

University of Colorado HSC, Denver CO

New York Medical College

New York, NY

Research Team

Research Team

1980

1980

2005 -currently

1987

2000

Applied Research

Peritoneal infections

Neo adjuvant chemotherapy of solid tumors

Metabolism of critically ill surgical Patient

Functional staging of acute surgical illness

Evangelismos Medical Ctr, Athens, Gr

Evangelismos Medical Ctr

Metaxa Cancer Memorial Hospital

Dpt of Surgery, New York Medical College

University of Athens, University of Thessaly

Principal Investigation

Research Team

Research team

Principal investigator

 

 Pre and postoperative chemotherapy with or without anticoagulation for colorectal cancer.

Clinical Oncology Vol. 5: 189-190, 1979.

Chemotherapy as the Initial Management of patients with Colorectal Cancer.  In "International Symposium of Chemotherapy Preceeding Surgery or Irradiation in Cancer Medicine".

DJ. Wagener (Ed.) Alan R. Liss, Inc, New York. Primary Chemotherapy in Cancer Medicine p. 317-338, 1985.

Chemotherapy with or without anticoagulation as initial management of patients with operable colorectal cancer:  A prospective study with at least five years follow-up. Recent Results in Cancer Research Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Vol. 103. 135-141, 1986.

Chemotherapy as the Initial Management of Patients with Οperable Gastric Cancer.  A Πrospective Study.  In "Recent Results in Cancer Research" First International Symposium on Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.  J. Ragaz, E.A. Golden (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.  Recent Results in Cancer Research, Vol. 103 : 142-147, 1986.

 

Research Team

( Α.Ν. Papaioannou, J.N. Nomicos, G. Stathopoulos, A. Avgoustis, J. Olympitis)

Research Team

(Papaioannou AN, Polychronis A, Plataniotis G, Tsamouri M, Kozonis J, Nomikos J)

Research Team

(AN Papaioannou, A Polychronis, JA Kozonis, IN Nomikos, M Tsamouri, GA Plataniotis, GK Papageorgiou)

Research Team

(Papaioannou AN, Kozonis J, Polychronis A, Nomikos J, Plataniotis G, Papageorgiou GK)

2005 Neo-adjuvant chemo-irradiation in the trreatment of rectal cancer “Metaxa” Cancer Memorial Hospital, Piraeus Greece Co-investigator
1986

  Effect of Cyclosporine on immunologically mediated diabetes in NOD mice.

Transplantation 46: 101S-106S, 1988.

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University of Colorado HSC, Denver USA

Co- investigator

(Wang Yi, McDuffie M, Nomikos IN, Liming Hao, Lafferty KJ)

1987

 Involvement of O2 radicals in  Autoimmune Diabetes.

Immunol Cell Biol 67: 85-87, 1989.

University of Colorado HSC, Denver USA

Principal Investigator

(Nomikos IN, Wang Yi, Lafferty KJ)

1987

Prevention of postischemic lipid peroxidation and liver cell injury by iron chelation.

Gut 1989; 30(4): 510-514.

New York Medical College New York

Co-investigator

(R Omar, I Nomikos, G Piccorelli, J Savino, N Agarwal)

1980

Washing with or without chloraphenicol in the treatment of peritonitis.  A prospective clinical trial.

Surgery.  99 : 20 - 25, 1986.

Evangelismos Medical Ctr, Athens, Greece

Principal Investigator

(Nomikos IN, Katsouyianni Kl., Papaioannou AN)

Academic Consulting Services/Councils/Boards/Editorial Committees

Period Organization Title of Position or Service Key Activities

April 2016-

December 2018

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Greek Ministry of Health Examining Committee for the specialty of General Surgery

Examiner

Boards in Surgery

Since 2017

 

Journal of International Surgery and Surgical Procedures Member of Editorial Board  
Since 2017 Hellenic Journal of Surgery

Editor -in- Chief

 

 
Since 2010 American College of Surgeons (Greek Chapter) Officer Treasurer

Awards/International Recognition

Date Title Awarded by:
1970-1976  Scholarship: Medical School of Athens University National Foundation of Scholarships of Greece
1986-1988 Scholarship :Transplantation of solid organs National Foundation of Scholarships of Greece
Since 1990

Recognition:

Data from my curriculum have been published in “Who's Who in the World” and “Who's Who in Medicine and Health Care”

Marquis Who's Who
2014 Award: for my voluntary contribution in the care of patients and suffering people. The Holy Metropolis of Syros and other Cycladian Islands
2015 Award : for my medical services provided to our community and my stable performance in athletics as a  long distance runner (marathon  race finisher 45 times) The Piraeus Runners Club
2020

Associate Member of the Academy of

Master Surgeon  Educators

American College of Surgeons

Other Achievements

Date Title Key Activities:
1987 -currently Long distance runner (Marathon runner) Finisher in  52  national and international marathon races (up to October 2021)
1996 - currently Pilot in command, single engine land  
2011 Byzantine music (ptychion)  
  Flute