Charilaos A. Ioannidis is a former Assist. Professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (former Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen), the Netherlands. He was appointed Assoc. Professor of Surgery (Head & Neck Surgery) at the University of Leuven (Katholieke Univesiteit Leuven), Belgium (1991) and later Consultant at the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Middlesex Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and honorary Consultant, the Whittington Hospital (1996), London, Great Britain. Since 2002 he has been practicing plastic and reconstructive surgery as a Consultant plastic surgeon in Athens, Greece. Besides trauma (head and neck, hand , soft tissues), his special fields of interest include head and neck surgery, skin cancer (melanoma and non-melanoma),soft tissue tumors, breast surgery (congenital deformities , oncology ), reconstructive surgery (microsurgery), necrotic soft tissue infections and aesthetic surgery. Heis, or has been, a member of numerous international scientific societies and associations, as well as numerous non – profit organizations. He is a fellow of the European Board of Cranio – Maxillofacial Surgery (FEBCMFS). He was awarded the Leibinger Prize of the European Association of Cranio- Maxillofacial Surgery for his experimental work on cartilage transplants (1988) and numerous medals and decorations for his scientific and clinical work. Dr. Ioannidis has published over seventy five scientific papers in peer reviewed national and international journals, as well as four books. He has also published numerous articles in newspapers and magazines on Plastic Surgery, skin cancer, breast pathology, facial traumatology and other topics. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cranio- Maxillofacial Surgery (he has also served as section Editor for the same Journal). In addition, he has served as a reviewer for various other international surgical journals.