Avraam Ploumis MD, PhD

Dr. Avraam Leonida Ploumis graduated from the Greek Military Medical Academy and received his medical school diploma from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. After six years of training in Greece and the USA, he completed his orthopedic surgery residency in 2002. He received his PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Medical School in 2004 and went on to complete a 1-year orthopedic spine surgery fellowship at Twin Cities Spine Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA in 2005, followed by a 6-month fellowship at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA in 2008, and a 6-month visiting professorship at the Orthopaedic Spine Program of Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA in 2012. He has worked as a consultant orthopedic surgeon since 2002--until 2008 at the 424 Military Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece, and thereafter until 2008 with an academic appointment at the Department of Physical Medicine of Ioannina, Division of Surgery, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece.

Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the University of Ioannina. He is a member of the executive committee of the Hellenic Spine Society and he has been a member of the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society since 2008. His research interests are spine surgery, spinal injections, spinal cord injury, and rehabilitation. He has published more than 70 manuscripts in international journals and has presented more than 250 papers at Greek and international meetings.