Athanassios Petrotos, MD, FACS

Director of the Acute Care Surgical Program
Greenwich Hospital

Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Surgical Quality Improvement Committee
Peer Review Committee
Greenwich Hospital

Education:
Medical School: University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
Internship: St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center/Columbia University, New York, NY
Residency: St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center/Columbia University, New York, NY

Board Certification: American Board of Surgery

Professional Affiliations:
American College of Surgeons
ASMBS (American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric surgeons)
SLS ( Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons)
SSAT Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Hellenic Medical Society of New York

Awards:
2001 "Best Chief House Officer Award", Presented by the Department of Surgery - St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
2001 "Laparoscopic Surgery Award ", Presented by the Department of Surgery - St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

Languages:
French, Greek, Italian, Spanish

Publications:

Inward Growth of Colonic Adenomatous Polyps. Steven F. Moss, Thomas Liu,
Athanassios Petrotos, Tony Hsu, Leslie Gold, Peter R. Holt., Gastroenterology 1996;111:1425-1432.

Is Ki-67 a Better Proliferative Marker in the Colon than PCNA? Peter R. Holt,
Steven F. Moss, Anargyros Kapetanakis, Athanassios Petrotos, Shaobai Wang.
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention Vol. 6, 131-135, February 1997.

Bedside Percutaneous Tracheostomy: A safe alternative to Conventional
Operative Tracheostomy. Athanassios Petrotos, Raymond V. Wedderburn., Poster presentation at the American Society of Critical Care Conference, January 1999.

Metabolic Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery. LJ Flancbaum, Athanassios Petrotos., Book Chapter in "Surgical Management of Obesity"(2006), Editor-in-Chief: Henry Buchwald, MD.

New Advances in Cardiothoracic Medicine-Robotic Surgery in the New Millenium. Presentation at the Hellenic Medical Society, April 2003, Organizers: Athanassios Petrotos, Nicholas Mezitis.

How I Do It. Single Incision Multiple Port Laparo-Endoscopic Surgery (S.I.M.P.L.E.)
Presentation at the Annual Connecticut Chapter of The American College of Surgeons, October 2008

Single Incision Multi-Port Laparo-Endoscopic surgery: Early evaluation of the SIMPLE cholecystectomy in a community setting. Athanassios C Petrotos M.D, Bruce Molinelli M.D., Dept of Surgery, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich Connecticut, Surg Endosc. 2009 Mar 6