Spine Surgeon MD, PhD

Dr. Starantzis holds a PhD from the Medical School of the University of Athens (NKUA) and Director of the Orthopedic Spine Surgery Clinic at the Athens Medical Center (Maroussi). He has a long-term  tenure as a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. He is the Scientific Director and Head of the Spinal Department of the Osteon Orthopedic Clinic.

Dedicated to the field of Spine Surgery, Dr. Starantzis had a long and targeted further training in recognized centers in Greece and abroad, serving alongside leading surgeons of their kind.

He received his basic training in Orthopedics at  the University Hospital of the Medical School of Cambridge and then at the University Hospital of King’s College (Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital)  in London. In 2007 he was appointed to  the First Orthopedic Clinic of the University of Athens, where he began to cultivate his appeal to Spine Surgery.

In 2012 he completed his specialization by obtaining the title of Orthopedic Surgeon and immediately afterwards began his specialization in the field of Spine Surgery at the world-famous center in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He is then given the opportunity to continue his specialization in Bristol where he gained significant experience that opened the doors of the National Health System of Great Britain, in which he has held a managerial position ever
 since.

His philosophy is to operate only when there is no other alternative for the patient and in those cases he prefers modern and minimally invasive techniques, as long as the latter are documented to be safer and more efficient than traditional surgical methods.

He is a member of many Greek and foreign Scientific Committees and Organizations and remains academically active, being a PhD holder from the University of Athens since 2016, with dozens of articles and pioneering surgical techniques published in scientific journals and reviews abroad.