Kyriakos Anastasiadis (MD, PhD, FETCS, FCCP, FESC)

is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the School of Medicine, Rector and Chair of the Council of Administration of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2011, he has served as Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at AHEPA University General Hospital. Since 2015, he has been Director of the Postgraduate Programme of the School of Medicine in Advanced Cardiopulmonary Applications – Extracorporeal Circulation Techniques, which has been approved by the Greek Ministry of Health as the only programme in the country providing specialization in Extracorporeal Circulation, as well as by the European Society of Extracorporeal Circulation Specialists. Since 2017, he has served as Director of the Surgical Division and has acted as Deputy Director of the Medical Service at AHEPA University General Hospital, in his capacity as the longest-serving Director among the University Departments. For the past decade, he has also served as Chair of the National Examination Committee for the specialty of Thoracic Surgery in Northern Greece. Since 2023, he has been Chair of the Committee for the Specialty of Thoracic Surgery at the Central Health Council.