Nikolaos Karydis
Consultant transplant surgeon
Biography
Nikolaos Karydis was appointed as a consultant at Guy’s Hospital in 2015. He is the principal investigator at Guy’s for two international multi-centre clinical trials in vascular access (Laminate, VALUE). He also teaches medical students on a regular basis (honorary senior lecturer, King’s College London). More recently, he has taken on the role of joint training programme director for transplant surgery trainees (London Deanery).
Education and training
- Sub-specialty training in kidney and pancreas transplantation at Guy’s Hospital in London
- General surgical training, University of Athens, Greece
- PhD in experimental liver injury, University of Athens, Greece
- Undergraduate medical education, University of Athens, Greece
Research interests
- Improving clinical outcomes in pancreas transplantation (intra-abdominal hypertension in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation)
- Surgical innovation in vascular access for dialysis (VasQ external support device for arteriovenous fistulae)
- Uterine transplantation as a novel treatment for absolute uterine factor infertility in humans
Last updated: January 2023