Dr. Choidis graduated from the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, cum laude in 2004, and received the Paediatric Surgery Specialty Certification from the Ministry of Health Athens, Greece in 2016.
After completing the Thesis: “Pathogenetic Basis and Clinical Features of Malignant Hyperthermia” at Debrecen University, Faculty of Medicine, Debrecen in Hungary, he returned to Greece. More specifically, during the years 2004 – 2007 he completed his Military Service as an army physician and the Rural Doctor Service (including a three-month hospital training), posted at Florina and Giannitsa General Hospitals and the Health Center of Krya Vrysi.
2008 – 2011 General Surgery Specialty Training
General Surgery Department, General Hospital of Giannitsa, Prefecture of Pella, Greece
2011 – 2012 Pediatric Surgery Specialty Training
Greek National Pediatric Surgery Training, Program (1st Year)
Pediatric Surgery Department, General Hospital of Larisa, Larisa, Greece
2012 – 2015 Pediatric Surgery Specialty Training
Greek National Pediatric Surgery Training, Program (2nd – 4th Year)
2nd Pediatric Surgery Department, General Children’s Hospital of Athens, “Agia Sofia”, Athens, Greece
In 2016, he moved to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and then to Southampton University Hospital in United Kingdom:
2015 – 2016 Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Surgery (StR Higher) Paediatric Surgery Department University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
2016 – 2017 Senior Fellow in Paediatric Surgery (StR Higher) Paediatric Surgery Department University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
2015 – 2017 Rota Manager (SpR Rota) Paediatric Surgery Department University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
2017 – 2019 Senior Fellow in Paediatric Surgery Department University Hospital Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom
2017 – 2019 On-duty Pediatric Surgeon for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Private Maternity Hospital REA
More recently he provides Medical Services in his Private Practice in Athens, as well as in the Euroclinic Children’s Hospital in Athens, as a General Paediatric Surgeon.
Licensure:
- 2003 USMLE Step 1, Grade 245/99 Budapest, Hungary
- 2004 Medical Board State Examinations
University of Debrecen Faculty of Medicine Debrecen, Hungary - 2004 Hungarian Basic Register of Medical Doctors
(Ref. Num. A/63952) Ministry of Health Hungary - 2004 License to Practice Medicine
Directorate of Public Health
Pella Prefecture, Edessa, Greece - 2004 – 2011 Pella Medical Association
Pella Prefecture, Edessa, Greece - 2011 – 2012 Larisa Medical Association
Larisa Prefecture, Larisa, Greece - 2012 – 2017 Athens Medical Association
Athens, Greece - 2015 GMC Full registration with a license to practice in the UK
(Ref. Num. 7523024) - 2016 Pediatric Surgery Specialty
No: 16401/28-09-2016
Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece - 2016 GMC Full specialist registration with a license to practice
(Paediatric Surgery) in the UK - 2019 Athens Medical Association
- 2019 Hellenic Society of Perinatal Medicine