Dr. Dimitra Volanaki MD
Profile
Fully registered medical practitioner with specialist registration with a licence to practise.
Member of the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) since 2014.
Qualifications
2018 – 2020 Masters in Public Health and Disasters Medicine,
University of Athens, Greece (currently I am studying through distance learning
2005 – 2012 Certificate of Medical Specialization in General Surgery, Health Service Department, Crete, Greece
1997 – 2003 MD, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Employment
October 2019- currently: Consultant in “Mitera” General Hospital, Athens, Greece
February 2019 – September 2010 – working part time (locum shifts) in Department of General and Emergency Surgery in John Radcliff Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
January 2018 – January 2019 Consultant General and Emergency Surgeon
General Surgery Department, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals,
Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust
May 2017 – November 2017 Consultant General Surgeon ( Volunteer work)
“Saint Savvas” Regional Cancer Hospital of Athens,
Athens, Greece
Oct 2016 – April 2017 Consultant General Surgeon (Locum)
Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Ealing Hospital,
London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Jan 2016 – Sep 2016 Senior Colorectal Fellow
Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Sept 2015 – Dec 2015 Senior Specialist Registrar (Locum)
Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Newham University Hospital,
Barts Health NHS Trust
Jan 2013 – Aug 2015 Specialty Doctor (Specialist Registrar grade)
Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, York Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Nov 2010 – Dec 2012 Senior Specialist Registrar (CT5-CT7)
General Surgery Unit, University Hospital of Crete, Greece
Sept 2010 – Oct 2010 Locum Specialty Registrar in General Surgery
Medacs Locum Agency in the Conquest Hospital, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, while I was waiting to start my training in University Hospital of Crete
Aug 2009 – Aug 2010 Clinical Fellow (ST3+)
Trauma Unit, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust
Apr 2009 – Aug 2009 Junior Clinical Fellow
Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Jan 2007 – March 2009 Senior Specialist Registrar
“Saint Savvas” Regional Cancer Hospital of Athens,
Athens, Greece
Feb 2008 Expedition Doctor
I voluntary worked as a doctor in small villages on an overseas expedition on behalf of the
Greek Orthodox Church of Crete in Uganda
2006 – 2009 Greek Flying Doctors (GFD) and EUROP-Assistance
I worked with GFD escorting patients in ambulances, air-ambulances and commercial flights worldwide. I also worked part time with the insurance company EUROP-Assistance talking to patients on the phone or visiting them at home.
Nov 2006 Senior House Officer
ENT Paediatric Clinic, Aghia Sophia General Paediatric Hospital, Athens, Greece
Nov 2006 Observer
VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct 2006 Anaesthetic
Training, Anaesthetic Department, Rethymnon General Hospital Crete, Greece
Oct 2006 ICU
Training, ICU, Rethymnon General Hospital, Crete, Greece
Jun 2005 – Sept 2006 Core Trainee (CT1-CT2)
General Surgery Unit, Rethymno General Hospital, Crete, Greece
Jun 2005 – Aug 2006 General Surgery
Training, General Surgery Clinic, Rethymnon General Hospital, Crete, Greece
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 General Practitioner
Aghia Foteini Health Centre, Crete, Greece
Community rural service is compulsory in Greece immediately after graduation
Oct 2003 – Jan 2004 Training in Cardiology, General Surgery and Internal Medicine prior to GP service
Rethymno General Hospital, Crete, Greece
Aug 2003 Summer camp medical doctor
I worked as doctor in a summer camp with 200 adults (aged 18-35) for the European Jewish Reunion, Litochoro, Mount Olympus, Greece
Jul 2003 Summer camp medical doctor
I worked as doctor in a summer camp with 200 children (aged 6-18) for the Greek Jewish Summer Camp, Litochoro, Mount Olympus, Greece
March – Apr 2003 Summer School (medical student)
Medical elective period in Zagazig University, Egypt with attachments in Pediatrics, Surgery, Tropical Diseases and then Hyperbaric Medicine in Sharm El Sheikh
Jul 2002 A&E Volunteer
Kissamos Health Centre, Crete, Greece
Jun 2002 – Summer School HELMSIC (medical student)
Medical elective period in Surgical Clinic University of Szeged, Hungary, Summer School HELMSIC
Jul 2000 – Jul 2002 Ambulance Volunteer
Agios Nikolaos and Kassandria Health Centres
Education
2015 ALS, Advanced Life Support, Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Athens, Greece
2011 ATLS (38477-P/SR), Advanced Trauma Life Support, Heraklion, Crete,
Greece
2010 PHTLS Instructor Hellenic National Centre, Patra, Greece
2010 PHTLS, Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
2009 ALS, Advanced Life Support, Crete Regional Centre, Heraklion, Greece
2006 ATLS, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Heraklion, Crete,
Greece
2006 – 2007 EPM, Emergency Prehospital Medicine, Heraklion, Greece
Courses and Workshops
Apr – Nov 2015 C.LA.S.S Colorectal Laparoscopic Surgical Skills Courses
Hygeia Hospital (Athens, Greece) in collaboration with the European Surgical Institute (Hamburg, Germany) and co-hosted by Stephen D. Wexner (Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida)
April 2014 M62 Course of the Association of Coloproctology, Huddersfield
Jul 2013 Intermediate Skills in Laparoscopic Surgery, RCS, London
Nov 2013 Basic Skills in Colonoscopy, Castle Hill Hospital, Hull
Dec 2014 BLS/AED Provider Course, Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Athens, Greece
Nov 2009 Definite Surgical Trauma Skills (DSTS), Royal College of Surgeons, London
Dec 2007 Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC), Larisa, Greece
May 2002 (& previously 2001, 2000) BLS and ALS seminar, Hellenic Medical Students’ Association, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Publications
Aspiration for acute pilonidal abscess -a cohort study
Lasithiotakis K, Aghahoseini A ,Volanaki D, Alexander D,
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Journal of Surgical Research 2018, (223) 123 -127
Diagnostic accuracy of faecal calprotectin in patients with suspected colorectal cancer
Turvill J, Aghahoseini A, Lasithiotakis K, Volanaki D, Langlands F
Department of Gastrenterology, Department of Surgery, Department of Chemical Pathology,
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) 2016, 10.3399/bjgp16X685645
Solitary fibrous tumour of the liver expressing CD34 and vimentin: A case report.
Korkolis D, Aggeli C, Gontikakis E, Volanaki D
World Journal of Gastroenterology 2008, 14(40): 6261-6264
Presentations
Sept 2014 Three hour postoperative arterial lactate is an independent predictor of postoperative outcomes following elective colorectal surgery
K. Lasithiotakis, D. Volanaki, I. Bradford
ESCP 9th Scientific and Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
This was an oral and a poster presentation.
Oct 2012 Death from HIT syndrome
Kalogerakos P, Lasithiotakis K, Petrakis I, Volanaki D
Surgical Unit,16th Pan Cretan Medical Conference, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
Oct 2012 First Laparoscopic resection of calcifying fibrous pseudotumour at posterior lower mediastinum
Papachristos S, Chrysos E, Volanaki D, Chalkiadakis G
16th Pan Cretan Medical Conference, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
May 2011 Development of an e-learning system in Crete
Kondogiannis V, Chronaki K, Volanaki D, Vourvachakis D
7th Pan-Hellenic Medical Conference, Athens, Greece
Nov 2010 Colorectal Cancer: Five year experience in Saint Savvas Oncological Hospital
Aggeli C, Korkolis D, Volanaki D
27th Pan-Hellenic Surgical Conference and International Surgical Forum, Athens, Greece
March 2006 Spigelian Hernia: An uncommon clinical entity
Daskalakis K, Volanaki D, Liaskos A.
3rd Pan-Hellenic Congress of Hernias, Thessaloniki, Greece
March 2006 Management of large post-surgical abdomen hernias
Daskalakis K, Volanaki D, Liaskos A
3rd Pan-Hellenic Congress of Hernias, Thessaloniki, Greece
May 2006 Trichobezoar in the stomach and peptic ulcer perforation
Daskalakis K, Volanaki D, Liaskos A
Cretan Congress, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
April 1999 Peripheral arterial embolism: a decade of experience
Volanaki D, Volanaki A, Tsapakidis I
5th Scientific Congress of Medical Students, Larissa, Greece
Poster Presentations
Oct 2014 Morbidity and in-hospital mortality of palliative gastric resections: A systematic review
K. Lasithiotakis, D. Volanaki, I.Bradford
34th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology in partnership with BASO Quality Outcome, Global Perspective Liverpool, UK
June 2014 Correlation of optical in vivo diagnosis & histology of different sub-sets of small colonic polyps
D Volanaki, K. Lasithiotakis, D Bandyopadhyay; York Teaching Hospital
Tripartite Colorectal Meeting 2014, Birmingham, UK
Oct 2008 Combined preoperative chemo-radiotherapy using oral capecitabine in locally advanced rectal cancer
Korkolis D, Volanaki D, Aggeli C; Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Saint Savvas, Athens, Greece
7th Congress of the Balkan Union of Oncology (BUON), Kusadasi, Turkey
Audits / Research
Pancreatitis audit
Volanaki D, Bointas G, Lam C, Department of Ealing Hospital General Surgery, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Outcomes of acute pilonidal abscess treated with aspiration and antibiotics.
Lasithiotakis K, Volanaki D, Aghahoseini A, Alexander D, Department of General Surgery, York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Colorectal Cancer in the age group under 40 years old
Volanaki D. Lasithiotakis K, Bradford I, Department of General Surgery, York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Rectal Cancer identified by GP’s, a 10 year review (2003-2013)
Volanaki D. Lasithiotakis K, Bradford I, Department of General Surgery, York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Conferences and congresses attended
29th Pan-Hellenic Surgical Conference and International Surgical Forum 2014
November 2014, Athens, Greece
ESCP 9th Scientific and Annual Meeting
September 2014, Barcelona, Spain
Tripartite Colorectal Meeting 2014,
June 2014, Birmingham, UK
Pan Cretan Medical Conference
October 2012, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
European Trauma Meeting
September 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Hellenic Society for the Study of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
February 2011, Athens, Greece
27th Pan-Hellenic Surgical Conference and International Surgical Forum 2010
November 2010, Athens, Greece
International Trauma Conference, Pre-hospital care and Medical disaster response
Trauma
November 2009, Manchester, UK
3rd Pan-Hellenic Conference, Greek Surgical Colorectal Society
May 2009, Athens, Greece
5th Conference of Hellenic Trauma Society and Emergency Medicine
February 2009, Athens, Greece
26th Pan-Hellenic Surgical Conference and International Surgical Forum 2008
November 2008, Athens, Greece
7th Congress of the Balkan Union of Oncology (BUON),
October 2008, Kusadasi, Turkey
9th European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
First ESTES – Congress
May 2008, Budapest, Hungary
“Dilemma and Debate in Breast Cancer Management VIII”, “IASO” General Hospital, April 2008, Athens, Greece
Seminar “Infection management”, Academy for Infection Management (AIM)
April 2008, Ioannina, Greece
1st Scientific Meeting on Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery
March 2008, Athens, Greece
Seminar “Robotic Surgery, Present and Future”, Hellenic Scientific Society of Robotic Surgery
March 2008, Athens, Greece.
15th International Postgraduate Course: New Frontiers in the Diagnosis and Management of GI Diseases, International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists (IASGO),
December 2007, Athens, Greece
3rd Surgical Symposium of Central Greece
December 2007, Larissa, Greece
10th Pan-Hellenic Conference of the Greek Endocrine Glands Surgical Society
November 2007, Athens, Greece
2nd Seminar of the Balkan School of Oncology,
“Molecular Knowledge in Cancer Goes to Patient’s Bed”
September 2007, Volos, Greece
5th Greek Armed Forces: Symposium of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine
Training and Update on the sepsis and trauma patient
May 2007, Athens, Greece
3rd Pan-Hellenic Oncology Conference
April 2007, Athens, Greece
4th Greek Trauma and Emergency Society
February 2007, Athens, Greece
25th Pan-Hellenic General Surgery Conference and International Surgical Forum, November 2006, Athens, Greece
Annual Surgical Oncology Update 2005, Early Breast Cancer – Minimal treatment
October 2006, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Seminar “dealing with trauma patient “
Surgical Clinic General Hospital of Sitia, Crete, Greece and Hellenic Association of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
June 2006, Sitia, Crete, Greece
Teaching
Formal
2013 – 2015 Tutor in Hull York Medical School (HYMS)
This involved teaching 1st and 2nd year medical students
2010 – present Instructor in Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians & American College of Surgeons, Crete Regional Centre, Heraklion, Greece
2007-2012 Course Instructor, EMT School
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, Greece
This involved teaching the paramedics up to twice a week for 4 hours. The lessons were primarily focused on anatomy, physiology, internal medicine, ALS and BLS with regard to the Emergency Medical and Trauma setting.
Informal
2007-2009 Breast Self examination
Patient and general public lessons in breast self-examination technique (Athens)
2003 – present General Surgery education
SpR, SHO, Medical student and Nursing teaching sessions during all my training and employment
Computer Skills
Proficient in all aspects of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access)
Competent in the following Medical Searches: ATHENS, MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE
Language Skills
Greek – native language
English – proficient written and spoken. Cambridge First Certificate, Dec 1990 (Grade: A).
Italian – Intermediate writing skills and conversational speaking skills. Diploma di Lingua Italiana (B2), Sept 2003
French – Beginner, currently learning
Referees
Mr Ibnauf Suliman, Consultant in General and Colorectal Surgery
General Surgery Department, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals,
Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust
Email: ibnauf.suliman@nhs.net
Mr Michael Saunders, Consultant in General and Colorectal Surgery
General Surgery Department, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals,
Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust
Email: smfsaunders@nhs.net
Mr Richard Guy, Consultant in General Surgery and Coloproctology
Oxford University Hospitals, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LE
Email: Richard.Guy@ouh.nhs.uk
Mr. Athanasakis Elias, Consultant General Surgeon
University Hospital of Crete, Panepistimiou Avenue, Voutes, 71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Email: eliasathanasakis@yahoo.gr, Mobile: +306977413848
Mr. Plataniotis George, Director of 1st Department of General Surgery
Saint Savvas Hospital, 171st Alexandra’s Ave, 11522, Athens, Greece
Mobile: +306945376931