Tsoulfas, Georgios

Undergraduate Studies

1990 – 1994        BA in Health and Society (Honors), Brown University, USA

1990 – 1994        BA in Political Science, Brown University, USA

1994 – 1998        MD Brown University School of Medicine, USA

Honors Thesis in Health and Society, “HIV and Prisons: the role of mandatory testing. The Rhode Island case”, 1994.

Postgraduate Studies

1998 – 2000        General Surgery Residency at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

2000 – 2001        Research fellow in transplantation surgery, T.E.Starzl Transplantation Institute,     University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

2001 – 2004        General Surgery Residency at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

PhD Studies

2007 PhD

“Activation of the lipopolysaccharide signaling pathway in hepatic transplantation preservation injury”,  School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Postdoctoral Studies/Fellowships

2004 – 2006       Clinical and Research Fellow in Transplantation Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Professional Career Milestones

2006-2008            Assistant Professor of Surgery    , Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Rochester Medical School, Rochester, New York, USA

2008-2009 Scientific Associate, Department of Transplantation, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

2010-2012 Scientific Associate, Department of Surgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

2012-2015 Assistant Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece (Elected to the position of Assistant Professor of Surgery in 2009 but because of national economic situation, this took officially effect in 2012)

2015-2017Tenure as Assistant Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

2017-2020 Associate Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine , Thessaloniki, Greece

2021-present Associate Professor of Transplantation Surgery, Chief Department of Transplantation Surgery,  Aristotle University School of Medicine