He attended the Medical School of the University of Athens, after achieving excellent marks at the Panhellenic Entrance Exams. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens with top marks, being among the top students. He specialized in Ophthalmology at the University Ophthalmology Clinic of the Athens General State Hospital. After achieving excellent marks in the USMLE exams, he gained surgical experience at well known ophthalmological University departments of America. He specialized in the field of Ocular Immunology and intra-ocular inflammation at Harvard University, where he did a fellowship with Prof. Stephen Foster. Additionally he trained at the University of New Orleans For many years, next to the clinical researcher Gholam A. Payman, where he performed hundreds of complex surgical procedures of the retina. The results of his clinical and research work in Louisiana is his own patent for minimally invasive retinal detachment procedures. He was a pioneer in the treatment of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSR) with photodynamic treatment, publishing the first report (Patent Publication).

 He carried out thousands of procedures covering the whole range of retinal surgery. He has also applied unique surgical techniques (endoresection) in the treatment of selected cases of malignant melanoma of the choroid as well as in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration by means of macular translocation surgery and autologous RPE-choroid transplantation.