Dr Dimitri Aristotle Raptis

Degrees and Diplomas
1981-1993: Primary and lower Secondary Education in Britain and Greece.

1993-1996: Upper Secondary Education at T.A.S.I.S. International School
(A formally recognized English speaking School, following an entirely British/ American educational system in a suburb of Athens). 

1996-2003: Tertiary Education
1996-1997: Successful completion of the first year of Psychology course at the University of Wales, (Athens Campus)  
1997-2003: Medical studies at the Comenius University Medical School of Bratislava in Slovakia, an English-speaking programme.

2002-2004: Postgraduate Degrees and Diplomas
2002-2003: Postgraduate Diploma in Urology. (Comenius University Medical School of Bratislava. Thesis on BPH – Diagnosis)
2003-2006: MSc in Health Care Research Methods (Barts and The London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry)
2009-2013: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Postgraduate Courses
Science Writing Course (2010)
Basic Surgical Skills course (2006)
The National MDT TME Development Programme. Basingstoke (2006)
ALS course: (2005)
Hospital-at-Night course: Attended at UCL (2005)

International Conferences
15th Congress of the Slovak and Czech Urological Societies, Bratislava (2004)
Association of Surgeons in Training Annual Meeting, Shefield (2005)
1st International Congress of the Hellenic College of Surgeons, Athens (2006)
International Congress of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland, Manchester (2007) Association of Surgeons in Training 30th Annual Meeting, Belfast (2007)
Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland, Glasgow (2007)
British Trauma Society Annual Meeting, Nottingham (2007)
Association of Surgeons in Training 31st Annual Meeting, Birmingham (2008)
30th Congress of the European Hernia Society, Seville (2008)
International Congress of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland, Bournemouth (2008)
Royal Society of Medicine – Coloproctolgy, New York Meeting (2008)
American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery Tripartite Meeting, Boston (2008)
4th Annual Conference of the British Hernia Society, Glasgow (2008)
13th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research, Auckland (2008)
Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, ASM, Colchester (2008)
Internationa Congress of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland, Glasgow (2009)
Association for Academic Surgery & Perioperative Medicine, Bern (2009)
8th European Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, Athens (2009)
41st European Pancreatic Club meeting, Szeget (2009)
14th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research, Kalmar (2009)

Regional Scientific Meetings
Inagural Meeting of the Association of Academic Surgery and perioperative Medicine, Bern (2009)
1st Clinical Research Retreat, Swiss HPB Center, Maienfeld (2009)
9th Hepatobiliary and Gastrointestinal Research Retreat, Vulpera (2010)