Mr Georgios Vasilikostas
Consultant General Surgeon
QualificationsMD PhD
Languages spoken:English, Greek, French
Main NHS base:
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St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical interests:
- Hepatobiliary and laparoscopic (key hole/ minimally invasive) surgery
- Advanced laparoscopic surgery (oesophagogastrectomy and provisional bariatric surgery for super-obese patients including duodenal switch and bilio-pancreatic diversion)
- Upper GI surgery
- Emergency surgery
- Endoscopy
- Hernia repair
- Gallstones
- Anti-reflux surgery
- Diseases of the small bowel
- Weight loss (intra-gastric balloon, gastric banding, gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy)
- Weight loss surgery – free mini weight loss consultations available
- Day surgery cases and minor operations
- Laparoscopic rectus muscle divarication repair
Member of:
- South Thames Bariatric Service
- European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)
- Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS)
- British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS)
Fees, Training & Background:
Mr Vasilikostas trained at St Pierre Hospital, Brussels, and completed a Fellowship in Advance Laparoscopic Surgery at the European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Brussels.
He has an academic background with peer-reviewed publications and gives many national and international lectures and presentations on weight loss surgery. Mr Vasilikostas also has experience in both clinical and lab-based research, leading to the award of PhD in 2008 from the University of Athens’ School of Medicine.
