Antonis Vasiliadis was born in Thessaloniki in 1958 but spent his childhood and adolescence in Drama. There he completed his high school studies (1976 – 1st Boys’ High School).
Until the age of 16, his orientation was to enter a school at the Polytechnic University, preferably in Architecture. It was family tradition, the inheritance from his grandfather that determined his choices. But then, due to a serious health problem in the family, he had a change of heart and decided to study Medicine. Something he never regretted because as he matured, healing became a “fair playing field” for him, a driving force for the betterment of the world.
After completing his basic medical studies, he had decided to pursue a surgical specialty. The enormous explosion of technology and its contribution to addressing various orthopedic problems, the excitement of the possibility of making the impossible possible, fascinated him.
From 1986 to 1991, he trained in the specialty of Orthopedic Surgery at the 2nd Orthopedic Clinic of the Naval Hospital of Athens (1986-1988) and at the Orthopedic Clinic of the University of Athens (1988-1991), at the K.A.T. Hospital. In 1991, after successful examinations, he was granted the License to Practice Orthopedics.
The incredible fortune of participating in one of the first Microsurgery Training Seminars brought him into contact with this new, amazing scientific subject. Armed with the knowledge of this surgical technique, with the ability to use microtools and the surgical microscope, it was now possible to repair injuries that until then had typically led to amputation of limbs.
From February 1992 to August 1993 he worked at Horton General Hospital, Banbury and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK, in the Department of Hand Surgery. During his work, under the direction of Professor Andrew Carr, he had the opportunity to become familiar with complex problems of Orthopaedic Surgery, especially hand surgery.
After his return, he worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Hand Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery Clinic of the K.A.T. Hospital, under the direction of N. Daoutis.
During this time, he completed his Doctoral Thesis on the topic of “Treatment of unstable scaphoid carpal pseudarthrosis according to Herbert”. The stimulus was the observation that fractures of the scaphoid bone of the wrist still constitute an intractable problem for the Orthopedic Surgeon due to the high predisposition to complications, mainly pseudarthrosis and osteonecrosis.
In 1998, he was awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Athens, with a grade of 10.
From 1999 to 2001 he worked as a Curator at the Hand Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery Clinic of the K.A.T. Hospital.
In 2001, in collaboration with N. Daoutis, founded the Department of Hand Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery at Metropolitan Hospital.
His practice operates at Metropolitan Hospital, in N. Faliro, where he meets new patients and tries to identify the problem that concerns them and provide the appropriate solution in each case. He operates on his patients in the same hospital.
He is an active member of the Hellenic Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the Hellenic Society of Hand Surgery, a member of the British Society of Hand Surgery and the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand.
