Biography:

Dr Christos Bissias is a Greek orthopaedic surgeon who graduated from the Military Medical Academy and the Medical School of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1990. He was commissioned as a Medical Officer of the Hellenic (Greek) Navy in October 1990. He started his orthopaedic training at the Naval Hospital of Athens in 1994 and continued in the UK (Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Poole Hospital, Royal United Hospital – Bath, 1997-2000).

From January 2006 to September 2007 Dr Bissias completed two surgical fellowships at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (Hip Fellowship, Jan – Sep 2006, Mr Robert Middleton; Knee Fellowship, Sep 2006 – Sep 2007, Mr Nick Fiddian and Mr Adrian Harvey).

During his Navy career he served at the Naval Hospitals of Athens and of Crete (Souda Bay) as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with an interest in Hip and Knee surgery as well as trauma surgery. In 2010-2011 he served as the Chief Medical Officer at the Hellenic Fleet Headquarters. In September 2014 he resigned his commission to the Navy and has since been working as a Consultant in Orthopaedics and Trauma in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Comments on time as Prof Middleton (ORI) Fellow:

It has been a great pleasure to work alongside Prof. Middleton. Time has really flown since 2006!! I learned a lot and I was able to put a great deal of surgical experience in hip surgery under my belt. I have to say that I also took some valuable lessons as regards social encounters and working as a Team: for example, it was the first time I saw a Consultant organise nights-out and Christmas events for their team, a habit I later took on as a Consultant myself.

I was also impressed by Prof. Middleton’s self-discipline in his personal life (not many people wake up at 5:30 am to start their day with jogging out in the cold british weather!!) and professional environment (very efficient and hard-worker in the operating theatre).