DETAILED CV

EDUCATION & ACADEMIC TITLES

• Bachelor of Medicine from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (1991)
• USMLE (United States Medical licensing Examination) Medical Exercise License in the United States of America following state examinations (1997)
• Holder of a PhD Thesis with the title “Study, by the technique of microdialysis, of tissue qualitative and quantitative changes, neurotoxic substances and agents that indicate neurotoxicity, in an experimental model of ischemia and neuroprotection of the spinal cord”
• Ph.D of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School (2003)

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• Obligatory Countryside Service, Skiathos Health Center (1993-1994)
• Resident Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgery Clinic, G.N.A. G.Gennimatas, G.N.A. KAT, G.N.A. Evangelismos (1995-2001)
• Scientific Collaborator of the University Neurosurgery Clinic, Hospital Evangelismos (2001-2003)
• Clinical Fellow Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA (1992-1993)
• Chef de Clinique, Department of Neurosurgery, Lariboisiere Hospital, Paris, France (2003-2004)
• Scientific Collaborator Neurosurgeon Ygeia, Athens Medical Center – Psychiko Clinic (2004-2008)
• Director of the Neurosurgery Department of Euromedica Group (2004-2008)
• Supervisor of the University Neurosurgery Clinic of the General Hospital of Patras (2008-2009)
• Supervisor of the University Neurosurgery Clinic, KAT General Hospital (2009-2012)
• Scientific Collaborator Neurosurgeon of the YGEIA – MITERA Group,(2012- )
• Director of the NeuroCure Advanced Neurosurgery Centre (2017- )
• Deputy Director of Neurosurgery Metropolitan Hospital (2019-2020 )
• Director of Neurosurgery at Metropolitan Hospital (2020-2021)
• Managing Director Foundation. Psychiatric Clinic Oikos Galini Agia Anastasia H. Stoforou SA (2020-)
• Head of the Henry Dunant Neurosurgery Team HC (2020-2022)
• Director of the 3rd Neurosurgery Clinic Henry Dunant HC(2022- )

SPECIALISATIONS/CLINICAL INTEREST

• Spine Surgery with Minimally Invasive Techniques(Minimally Invasive Surgery-MIS)
• Brain surgery with new innovative techniques Brain Path and Neuroendoport
• Neurosurgical Oncology of the Brain, Spine, Skull Base
• Endoscopic Surgery of the Pituitary and Skull Base
• Microsurgery, Neuroendoscopy, Brain and Spine Neuroplasty
• Pain Surgery
• Radiosurgery Gamma Knife

MEMBER OF MEDICAL COUNCILS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

1. Member of the Medical Association of Athens
2. Member of the British Medical Association (General Medical Council
3. Member of the French Medical Association (Ordre des Médecins, Conceil Departmental de la Ville de Paris)
4. Member of the Greek Neurosurgical Society
5. Member of the AANS (American Association of Neurological Surgeons)
6. Member of the CNS – Congress of Neurological Surgeons- Tumor Section
7. Member of the European Association of Neurological Surgeons (EANS)
8. Member of the European Skull Base Society (ESBS)
9. Member of the Medical Association of Trikala

INDICATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Altered ACTH response to CRH in Silent Corticotroph Adenomas» B.M.K.Biller, C.Stoforou and Anne Klibanski. Neuroendocrine Unit, Department of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. 3rd International Pituitary Congress, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, June 1993.
• «Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Severe Intractable Epilepsy: Experience in 12 patients”. K.Stoforou, S.Gatzonis, N.Georgakoulias, E.Sigounas, D.E.Sakas. Proceedings of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, 2001, pp 48-51.
• «Treatment of Spasticity with implantable pump for Continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion » Κ.Stoforou K, Papavlasopoulos F, Boviatsis E, Sakas D.E. Proceedings of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, 2001, pp 757-760.
• “Multiple Cabernacal Vascular Stems: Presentation of case and Strategic Surgery”, Konstantia Ch. Stoforou, Bernard George. 19th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. Athens, May 2005.
•  “The Flux catheter irrigation / aspiration system: An innovative approach to the treatment of chronic subdural hematoma. A case report »K. Stoforou, A. Maniotis, E. Sourtzis, C. Panotopoulos, Neurosurgery, KAT General Hospital, Neurosurgery, Mediteranneo Hospital Annual Congress of EANS, Rome, October 2011.

BOOKS

• Chapter 9 F – “Neoplasms – Cranial Base Tumors” K. Stoforou,D. Sakas in “Introduction to Neurosurgery” by D.Sakas, Parisianos Publicing, Athens 2003, pages 316-323.
• Chapter 15 – “Cranial Base Surgery” by K. Stoforou,D. Sakas in “Introduction to Neurosurgery” by D. Sakas, Parisianos, Athens 2003, pp. 471-489.

SPECIALIZATIONS – EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

Microneurosurgery – Minimally invasive skull techniques

• Applied Tutorial in Image-Guided Surgery for Brain Tumors in Santorini, Greece, August 27-29, 1995.
• Applied Tutorial of the 1st Cycle of Postgraduate Courses on “Pterionic Craniotomy”: Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 23-24, 1996.
• “Temporal Bone Surgery” – Applied Tutorial. International Winter Congress of Neurosurgery – Otorhinolaryngology and Minimal Invasive Techniques (Winter Congress on Neurosurgery, Otorhinolaryngology and Minimally Invasive Techniques). Aspen, Colorado, USA, March 21-25, 1999.
• Applied Tutorial of the 2nd Cycle of Postgraduate Courses of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 12-13, 1999.
• 2th Scandinavian microsurgical laboratory in Karolinska’s Skull Base, Stockholm, Sweden, September 16-18, 1999.
• Practical Exercise of Microsurgery, University of Athens, Laboratory of Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, “Theodoros Garofalidis”, and “KAT” Hospital, Surgery Clinic of Hand Microsurgery. Three-year training in microsurgical techniques. September-December 1999.
• Applied Tutorial on surgical access of the skull base, 11th Annual Meeting of the North American Scull Base Society. Neurological Institute of Barrow, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. March, 2000. Professor Robert Spetzler.
• Advanced Training in Medronic Midas Rex’s Advanced Pneumatic Instrumentation in Neurosurgical Procedures. Fourteen (14) training hours. Thessaloniki, June 2000.
• Applied Tutorial in “Spine Artery Surgery”, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France. Professor Bernard George. September 26-29, 2000.
• Neurosurgery Training Courses of the European Neurosurgical Society: “Functional Neurosurgery-Trauma-Pediatric Neurosurgery”. Prague, Czech Republic, February 11-15, 2001.
• 3rd International Hydrocephalos Tutorial, Kos, May 2001.
• Advanced Applied Tutorial on Advanced Skull Base Microanatomy Workshop and Hands-on Dissection Course, The International Neurosurgery Education Foundation in collaboration with the Carolina Neuroscience Institute) and the Anspach Company. Professor Takanori Fukushima, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA, May 2-4, 2002.
• Postgraduate Courses of the European Neurosurgical Society (EANS): “Vascular Diseases”, Thessaloniki, August 20-25, 2005.
• Applied Tutorial for Cross-section of White Brain Substance. University of Zurich, Neurosurgical Department, Zurich, Switzerland, July 29-31, 2010. Head: Prof. Bertalanfy.

Spine

• 1st International Symposium on Advances in Spinal Surgery (1st International Symposium – Advances in Spinal Surgery, Athens, Greece, November 16-19, 2006)
• Applied Tutorial on Pediguard Spine Vision Training Course on Pediguard), Paris, France, April 2007
• Applied Tutorial in Transdermal Discectomy, Lumbar and Cervical Nucleoplasty with the Perc-DT System of Spine Wand ™, Munich, Germany, March 30-31, 2007
• Applied tutorial in the Parallax System of the Transdermal Caneplast, Munich, Germany, March 30-31, 2007
• Training in the use of minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of pain with radiofrequency techniques (Pasha-Electrode System, Implantable Drug Delivery Pumps etc.) Colonia, Germany, May – June 2007

Endoscopic

• Applied Endocranial Neuroendoscopy Tutorial, Aesculap Academie, Berlin August 20-22, 2008
• Applied Tutorial in Minimal Interventional Endoscopic Surgery of the Base of the Skull and Pituitary. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. October 22-25, 2008. Responsible Prof. Amin Kassam
• Training in Endoscopic Spine Surgery (Basic course) – Lumbar – Joimax , Mainz Germany June 2016
• Training in Endoscopic Spine Surgery (Advanced course) – Lumbar and Cervical – Joimax, Saltzburg, Austria, November 2016

Radiosurgery

• Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Training, Official Electa Course, San Raffaelle University Hospital Neurosurgery Gamma Knife Department, Milan, Italy, March-April 2015

PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

• “Altered ACTH response to CRH in Silent Corticotroph Adenomas”, BMKBiller, C. Stoforou and Anne Klibanski (Neuroendocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA) Poster, 3rd International Pituitary Congress, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, June 1993.
• “Thrombotic Occlusion of the Middle Cerebral Artery: A Pitfall in the Diagnosis of a Traumatic Dissecting Aneurysm of the Internal Carotid Artery” C.Stoforou, N.Sakellarides, S. Pomonis, F.Sotiriou, N.Katsikis *, D. Anagnostopoulos, Neurosurgical Clinic, * Neurological Clinic of PGN KAT, Kifissia. “2nd Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress with the Participation of the Neurosurgical Societies of the Balkan and East Mediterranean Sea Countries» Thessaloniki, November 1999.
• “Inflammatory Processes of Central Nervous System” by F. Sotiriou, C. Stoforou, N. Sakellaridis, S. Pomonis, D. Anagnostopoulos. Neurosurgical Clinic, PGN KAT, Kifissia. “2nd Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress with the Participation of the Neurosurgical Societies of the Balkan and East Mediterranean Sea Countries» Thessaloniki, November 1999.
• “Hemangiopericytoma-like synovial cell Sarcoma of the Lumbar Spine: Case Report”, S.Pomonis, C.Stoforou, N.Sakellarides, F.Sotiriou, D.Anagnostopoulos, Neurosurgery Clinic of PGNA KAT, Kifissia. «2nd Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress with the participation of the Neurosurgical societies of the Balkan and East Mediterranean countries» Thessaloniki, November 1999.
•  “Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Severe Intractable Epilepsy: The University of Athens Experience” C.Stoforou, S.Gatzonis, N.Georgakoulias, E.Sigounas, D.E.Sakas. University Neurosurgery Clinic, Evangelismos Hospital. 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia. 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia. September 2001.
• “Treatment of Spasticity with Implantable Pump for Continuous Intrathecal Baclofen Infusion” C.Stoforou, F.Papavlasopoulos, E.Boviatsis, D.E.Sakas. University Neurosurgery Clinic, Evangelismos Hospital. 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia. 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia. September 2001.
• “Low pressure hydrocephalus. An Algorithm of Management » Petsanas A.P., Vranos G., Bouras A., Nikoalidis I., Stoforou. K. Department of Neurosurgery, Pyrgos General Hospital, Pyrgos, Greece, Department of Neurosurgery, Tzanio Hospital, Piraeus, Greece, 4th International Hydrocephalus Workshop – Progresses and Controversies in Hydrocephalus, 3rd Department of Neurosurgery, Euromedica- Athinaio Hospital, Athens. Rhodes, May 17-20, 2007.
• “Dementia in normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH): Could more sophisticated shunt technology combined with pharmacological treatment improve outcome of these patients? »Petsanas A.P., Vranos G., Bouras A., Nikoalidis I., Stoforou K. Department of Neurosurgery, Pyrgos General Hospital, Pyrgos, Greece, Department of Neurosurgery, Tzanio Hospital, Piraeus, Greece 4th International Hydrocephalus Workshop – Progresses and Controversies in Hydrocephalus, 3rd Department of Neurosurgery, Euromedica – Athinaio Hospital, Athens. Rhodes, May 17-20, 2007.
• Thoracolumbar epidermoid cyst causing progressive paraparesis – case report and review of the literature. Stoforou K¹.1,Veranis S.¹, Papageorgiou D.^{1 1} Hygeia Hospital, Neurosurgical Department,  EANS, Athens, September 2016

PRESENTATIONS AT GREEK SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

• “Vein injuries of the lower limbs and pelvis-Rehabilitation or Ligation. I. Antoniou, M. Christoforidis, V. Andrikopoulos, K. Stoforou, P. Panoussis. Angio-Surgical Clinic PGN Kato Kifissia. 3rd Panhellenic Vascular Surgery Congress. Athens, January 1996 – Praise from the Conference for the Best Presentation of the Conference.
• “Recklinghausen disease case with impressive skin lesions” Anagnostopoulos D., Sakellaridis N., Sotiriou F., Stoforou K. Neurosurgery Clinic PGN KAT, Kifissias, 13th Pan-Hellenic Neurosurgical Congress, Delphi, November 1998.
• “Primary Spinal Cord Melanoma – case presentation”. S. Pomoni, K. Stophorou, N. Sakellaridis, D. Anagnostopoulos. Neurosurgical Clinic PGN KAT, Kifissia. 13th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress, Kavala, November 1999.
• “Inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system” .F.Sotiriou, K.Stoforou N. Sakellaridis, S.Pomonis, D.Anagnostopoulos. Neurosurgical Clinic PGN KAT, Kifissia. 13th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress, Kavala, November 1999.
• “Methods for Functional Evaluation of Spasticity by Cerebral and / or Spinal Damage, and Surgical Treatment Criteria” E. Boviatzis, K. Stoforou, F. Papavsalopoulos, G. Strantzalis, E. Sigouna, D.E. Sakas, University Department of Neurosurgery , Evangelismos Hospital , XXIII Panhellenic Surgical Congress, Athens, November 2000.
• “Surgical treatment of spasticity with implantation of a continuous intradural Baclofen pump” S.Korfias, G.Strantzalis, E.Boviatsis, K.Stoforu, E.Sygounas, D.E.Sakas. University Neurosurgery Clinic, Hospital “Evangelismos” XXII Panhellenic Surgical Congress, Athens November 2000.
• “Epilepsy Surgery Unit of the University of Athens – Presentation of the first five surgical cases” K.Stoforou, S. Gatzonis, S. Korfias, N. Georgakoulias, P. Sporlias, E. Sigounas, D.E. Sakas. University Neurosurgery Clinic, Evangelismos Hospital. 15th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. Kos, May 2001.
• “The role of modern magnetic resonance techniques in imaging microvascular compression and planning of surgical treatment”. C.Stoforou, F.Papavlasopoulos, G.Stanjalis, and D.E.Sakas. University Neurosurgery Clinic, Evangelismos Hospital. 2nd postgraduate course in the development of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. Mykonos, May 2002.
• “Study of the qualitative and quantitative change on tissue level, with the help of microdialysis, of neurotoxic substances and agents suggestive of neurotoxicity, in an experimental model of ischemia and neuroprotection of the spinal cord”. K. Stoforou, E. Maratou, A. Papalis, S. Patsouris, E. Boviatsis, G. Stantzalis, P. Karagiannakos, D.E. Sakas. 17th Panhellenic Congress of Neurosurgery. Athens, April 2003.
• S-100 of Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood as a Predictive Indicator of Spinal Cord Ischemia – Study in an experimental model of ischemia and neuroprotection of the spinal cord. K. Stoforou, Ch. Psachoulia, A. Papalis, S. Patsouris, E. Boviatsis, G. Stanzalis, P. Karagiannakos, D.E. Sakas. 17th Panhellenic Congress of Neurosurgery. Athens, April 2003.
• “Multiple Cabernacal Vascular Stems: Presentation of case and Strategic Surgery”, Konstantia Ch. Stoforou, Bernard George. 19th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. Athens, May 2005.
• “Atrophy of small hand muscles in myelopathy: Indications for ischemic damage”. Α.P. Petsanas, G. Vranos, A. Bouras, I. Nikolaidis, N. Gaddifis, K. Stoforou. 33rd Spinal Symposium “N. Yannestras -P. Smyrnis “, Mykonos, May 24-27, 2007.
•  “Hippuric syndrome from extradural metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer”. Petsanas, G. Vranos, I. Nikolaidis, A. Bouras, N. Gaddafi, K. Stoforou. 33rd Spinal Symposium “N. Yannestras-P. Smyrnis “, Mykonos, May 24-27, 2007.
• “Non-communicating thoracic spinal cord squamous cell extraculcer. Report of a case “. Α.P. Petsanas, G. Vranos, I. Nikolaidis, A. Bouras, N. Gaddafi, K. Stoforou. 33rd Spinal Symposium “N. Yannestras -P. Smyrnis “, Mykonos, May 24-27, 2007.
• “The role of s-100b protein in serum and cerebrospinal fluid in an experimental model of spinal cord ischemia.” K. Stoforou, N. Sakellaridis, A. Androulis, A. Maniotis, S. Veranis, H. Surtzis, 24th Panhellenic Neurosurgery Conference “, Hersonissos Heraklion, Crete 19-20 May 2010.
• “Epilepsy as an initial symptom aggravates prognosis in oligodendroglioma” N. Sakellaridis, K. Stoforou, H. Kelesis, B. Kontogiannis, S. Stavropoulos, A. Barloiannis. 24th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress, Hersonissos, Heraklion 19-20 May 2010.