Professor Elias Brountzos is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Descriptive-Functional Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Prof Bruountoz obtained his medical training at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). After working as a clinical doctor in internal medicine and general surgery for one year, he completed his radiology training at Patras University, Greece.
Professor Brountzos worked as a radiologist at the Metaxa Cancer Hospital, then focused on interventional radiology following a visiting research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in the USA. He became assistant professor of interventional radiology at the Medical School of NKUA in 2000. In 2002, he spent six months at the Dotter Institute of Oregon Health and Sciences University as a visiting research fellow. Professor Brountzos became a full professor of interventional radiology in 2009.
Professor Brountzos was the president of The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) until 2017. He is member of the Executive Committee of Hellenic Society of Interventional Radiology and Interventional Neuroradiology, and Chairman of the Greek Ministry of Health’s committee for the subspecialty of IR. He has authored more than 137 articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to many Greek and international books and journals in the fields of radiology, diagnostic imaging, neurology and vascular therapy.
Prof Elias Brountzos is on the editorial board for Vascular and Endovascular Review Journal.
Specialist Interests
- Peripheral vascular disease;
- endovascular treatment of abdominal and thoracic aneurysms;
- biosynthetic prosthetic venous valve for venous insufficiency;
- liver tumour treatments.
