Alexander D. Rapidis MD, DDS, PhD

Consultant and Head, Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Greek Anticancer Institute, Saint Savvas Hospital, Athens

Assistant Professor in Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Hon. Senior Lecturer in Maxillofacial Surgery, Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, England

Alexander D. Rapidis graduated in Dentistry and Medicine from the University of Athens and holds a PhD degree in Oral Medicine and Pathology. He was trained in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of London and was a Hon. Lecturer in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in King's College Hospital Medical School. After his return to Greece, he was a Senior Registrar in Maxillofacial Surgery in the Athens Accident Hospital and the Laiko General University Hospital. Since 1990 he is Consultant and Head of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery of the Greek Anticancer Institute "Saint Savvas Hospital" in Athens. In 2000 he was elected Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the University of Athens and in 2004 Hon. Senior Lecturer in Maxillofacial Surgery at Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, England.

Dr Rapidis is a Fellow of the European Boards of Oro-Maxillofacial Surgery UMS, member of the National Council of Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Development, Chairman of the Surgical Division of Saint Savvas Hospital and member of the Greek Examining Boards for the specialty of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. During the last five years he founded along with the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery the first unit of reconstructive microsurgery of the maxillofacial region.

He is the author of more than 400 scientific works, 180 of which are publications in national and international medical journals. He has delivered a number of lectures, seminars and round table presentations in many University Departments and Hospitals in Greece and abroad.