Professor Alexander D. Rapidis MD DDS PhD
Alexander D. Rapidis,
MD, DDS, PhD studied Dentistry and Medicine at the University of Athens,
Greece, and received his PhD in Oral Medicine and Pathology from the same
university. After training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the
University of London, UK, he became an Honorary Lecturer in Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery at King’s College Hospital Medical School,
London. Since 1990, Professor Rapidis has been Chairman of the Department of
Maxillofacial Surgery in the Greek Anticancer Institute, “Saint Savvas
Hospital”, Athens. He was elected Assistant Professor of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Athens in 2000, an Honorary
Senior Lecturer in Maxillofacial Surgery at Eastman Dental Institute,
University College London, UK in 2004, and Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Pathology at the University of
Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, USA in 2007. In August 2007 he was
appointed Hon. Professor in Maxillofacial Surgery at Eastman Dental
Institute, University College London. He is also Chairman of the
Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Management Team in head and neck
cancer of the Greek Anticancer Institute, “Saint Savvas Hospital”, Athens.
Professor Rapidis is a fellow of the European Board of Oro-Maxillofacial Surgery (EBOMFS), Vice President of the Medical Council of the Greek Anticancer Institute, “Saint Savvas Hospital”, Athens, and a member of the Greek Examining Board for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has been a Visiting Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in both the Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA and the Head and Neck Service of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. He is a fellow of the American Head and Neck Society, a founding fellow of the International Academy of Oral Oncology, a member of the Hellenic Association of Surgical Oncology and the Hellenic Cancer Society, and President of the Hellenic Association for the Treatment of Maxillofacial Cancer. In addition, he serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Oral Oncology and Head and Neck and as a reviewer or editorial board member for another eight national and international journals.
Professor Rapidis was President of the 10th International Congress on Oral Cancer, Crete, Greece in 2005 and the 1st World Congress of the International Academy of Oral Oncology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2007 and has authored over 500 scientific works, 180 of which are publications in national and international medical journals. He has delivered numerous lectures, seminars, and roundtable presentations at universities and hospitals in both Greece and abroad.
