Aretaieio Hospital, a member of the HHG Group, has been officially accredited with the internationally recognized CHKS Accreditation Standard of the United Kingdom, which is considered one of the leading standards for evaluation and quality assurance in the field of healthcare worldwide.
Dr Panayiotis Hadjicostas MD, PhD, FACS
General Surgeon - ICU Specialist
Clinical Professor of Surgery (UNIC)
Surgical Oncology (Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery /Difficult GI Cancers, Colorectal, Gastric, Peritoneal Carcinomatosis, Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, HIPEC,/ Sarcomas Adrenal and others Retroperitoneal Tumors)
Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
Nicosia General Hospital and Larnaca General Hospital - former Director/Chairman of the Department of Surgery
-PhD University of Athens, Greece
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- Fellow of the (American) Society of Surgical Oncology
- Μember of the European Society of Surgical Oncology
- One of the pioneers in the introduction and application of new technology and surgical methods, particularly in surgical oncology.
- One of the pioneers in the introduction and application of new technology and surgical methods, particularly in surgical oncology.
Multi-year experience (23) in the Cyprus Ministry of Health - Nicosia General Hospital and Larnaca General Hospital - with last position being the Director/Chairman of the Department of Surgery. Introduced innovative techniques and technologies in Surgical Oncology. Developed of the ‘Liver Tumor destruction (Radiofrequency Ablation-RFA) programme’ on a national basis (2004-2012).
I pioneered the establishment of Liver and Pancreas Surgery in Nicosia General Hospital and nationally. One of the two Surgeons who performed the first Pancreatic Resection in Cyprus (Whipples’ procedure for pancreatic cancer in 1992).
Committed in surgical education with thorough teaching and training experience with Surgical Residents, Junior Doctors and Medical Students. Extensive and continuous training and professional development in hospitals in the USA and UK.
Former President of the Cyprus Surgical Society (2010–2012) and National Representative of Cyprus/Ministry of Health to the EU on issues of Organ Donation and Transplantation (2010–2017). A member of numerous international scientific surgical societies, he has been invited as a speaker at conferences and has presented dozens of papers and publications at conferences and in international medical journals
Areas of Concentration/ Research Interests:
Complicated and Complex revision operations
Surgical Oncology (Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery /Difficult GI Cancers, Colorectal, Gastric, Peritoneal Carcinomatosis, Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, HIPEC,/ Sarcomas Adrenal and others Retroperitoneal Tumors)
Transplantation Surgery (Liver/ Kidneys)
Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
Colectomies (the first reported laparoscopic total colectomies for FAP in our country), liver/pancreas, cholecystectomies, appendectomies, etc
General Surgery
Specialized biliary tract procedures (strictures, injuries, tumors)
Trauma Surgery/ Open Abdomen
