Topic: Erectile dysfunction
Concise curriculum vitae
Dr. Ioannis Vakalopoulos MD, PhD, Fellow of European Boards of Urology (FEBU) and Fellow of European Committee for Sexual Medicine (FECSM) is surgeon urologist, being full-time faculty member of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece (AUTH) since 2006 in the 1st Department of Urology of AUTH in “G. Gennimatas” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, currently in the post of Associate Professor of Urology-Andrology. He is also currently President of Hellenic Association of Andrology and Vice President of Urologic Association of North Greece.
Professor Vakalopoulos is dealing especially with Sexual Medicine and Andrology. Specifically, he is dealing with erectile dysfunction, orgasm and ejaculation disorders, disorders of sexual desire, chronic pelvic pain syndromes-chronic prostatitis, congenital penile curvatures or Peyronie’s disease, penile diseases and microphallia. He is also dealing with male infertility, undescended testis, testicular tumors and surgical treatment of varicocele and retrieval of spermatozoa. He has one of the largest series in Greece of penile prosthesis implantation for the treatment of refractory erectile dysfunction.
His research interest is in the field of Andrology, male incontinence and urological cancer biology. He has presented in more than 150 Greek and International conferences and has written 40 papers in international and 20 in Greek scientific journals and decades of summaries in the records of international and Greek congresses. He used to be a trainer of the American Medical Systems company for the implantation of penile implants and artificial sphincters. He is a reviewer in 17 international peer-review scientific journals and associate editor in the peer review medical Journal “Hippokratia”
Email: ivakalop (@) auth.gr