Dr. Odysseas Georgiadis

Dr Odysseas Georgiadis is an Ophthalmic Surgeon, trained in the UK, specialising in Medical Retina, Vitreoretinal Surgery and Cataract.

• He studied medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, completing his degree in 2007 with First-Class Honours and earning the Inauguration Award for the highest degree grade.
• He specialised in Ophthalmology at the Penteli Children’s Hospital and the Athens Red Cross Hospital (Korgialenio-Benakio) between 2011 and 2015.
• In 2015 he was awarded the Evangelos Gragoudas Scholarship to attend the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology in the USA, having ranked first among Greek candidates in the qualifying exams.
• In 2015 he obtained the European Board of Ophthalmology Diploma (FEBO) with the highest distinction, ranking first in Europe in the EBOD exams in Paris.
• In 2015 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he began his Clinical Research Fellowship and his Medical Doctorate degree in Research at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London.
• From 2015 he worked as a clinical researcher in the fields of stem cell transplantation, gene therapy, bionic retina and regenerative medicine for retinal and macular diseases. Concurrently, he specialised in medical retina.
  From 2016 to 2018 he worked as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences – NDCN), in the field of gene therapy.
  In 2021 he obtained his doctorate, on the transplantation of stem cells for age-related macular degeneration, from University College London.
• From 2018 to 2020 he specialised in cataract surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, one of the largest eye hospitals in the world.
• From 2020 to 2022 he specialised in vitreoretinal and macular surgery at the university hospitals King’s College Hospital (London) and Moorfields Eye Hospital (London). Concurrently, he served as Locum Consultant in the Cataract service of King’s College Hospital.
• At present, he works as a Vitreoretinal and Cataract Surgeon in the Ophthalmology Department of the University Hospital “Attikon” (Athens), as a University Scholar, with clinical, research and teaching duties.
  He also maintains a private practice, offering his services across the whole spectrum of Ophthalmology, with a special interest in Vitreoretinal surgery, Macular surgery and Cataract.
• He is a member of the Medical Association of Athens, the Greek Ophthalmological Society, the Greek Vitreoretinal Society, the European Board of Ophthalmology and the British General Medical Council.
  He is also one of the founding members of the Greek Moorfields Alumni association (2022), which serves as a scientific bridge between Moorfields Eye Hospital and its graduates in Greece.
• Since 2012 he has participated continuously and actively, as a presenter, in national and international ophthalmological conferences.
• Throughout his career he has undertaken humanitarian work as a member of the Greek Doctors of the World (MdM), offering General Medicine and Ophthalmology services at their Athens Medical Centre and on various missions in Greece and overseas.