Basic Education:
1990-1996 Medical School, University of Ioannina

Present Working Status:
He is working as an Orthopaedic Consultan in the Orthopaedic Department of the General Hospital of Arta, Greece. During this time, he participating regularly in the schedule of duties and in the training of the resident doctors of the clinic, while he also exhibiting scientific work by publication of papers with incidents of the clinic

Experience:
1. From 30/12/1996 to 2/2/1998, he worked as a Rural Community Doctor at the Regional Community Clinic of Korfovouni and, at the same time, on detachment, as an assistant in the Orthopaedic Department of the General Hospital of Arta. During this particular period, he was on duty as an assistant in the General Surgery Department of the General Hospital of Arta.
2. From 2/2/1998 to 1/2/1999, he worked in the General.Hospital of Arta as an assistant in the General Surgery Department and from 2/2/1999 to 20/9/1999, he served at the same hospital, on detachment, as an assistant in the Orthopaedic Department. During those 3 years as assistant in the Orthopaedic Department, he took part, in total, in 250 surgical (orthopaedic) operations as 1st Surgeon and in 716 operations as an assistant.
3. From 23/1/2001 to 23/1/2006, he worked as an assistant in the Orthopaedic Department of the University Hospital of Ioannina. Within the framework of training in the University Department of Ioannina, he was also trained in Pediatric Orthopaedics (since at the time there was a separate Pediatric Department) under the leadership of Pr. A. Beris, in a Scoliosis Unit, under the leadership of Prof. P.N.Soukakos, in a Sports Injuries department, under the leadership of Prof. A.Georgoulis, as well as in a hand-microsurgery department, under the leadership of Prof. A.Beris. During the 5 years that he was trained in the Orthopaedic Department of the University of Ioannina, he took part in 328 operations as 1st Surgeon and in 972 as Assistant, while at the same time, he participated in almost all the scientific events of the Department (organising seminars, conferences, and meetings).
4. From 9/3/2006 to 8/3/2007, he worked as a Clinical Fellow in ATOS clinik (Center for Knee, Foot and Sports Medicine Surgery) Heidelberg, Germany, within the framework of the Scholarship Georgios Noulis, granted by the University Orthopaedic Department A of the University of Athens and the Orthopaedic Department of the University of Ioannina, under the leadership of Pr. Hans Paessler and Pr. Hajo Thermann. During that time, he took part in 255 surgical operations as 1st Surgeon and in 445 as assistant. Moreover, besides the other activities of the clinic, he was further trained in the application of Ultrasounds and MRI on diseases of the Knee, Ankle and the Foot. It is worth mentioning that the particular Department is an acknowledged Training Centre of ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine) and also Training Centre of ESSKA (European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy).
5. From 16/5/2008 up to now, he is working as an Orthopaedic Consultant (Tutor B’) in the General Hospital of Arta.
In addition, hee took part in mostly cadaveric operations and new techniques, mainly in the field that he specialized in and those are the following:
1. 11th Week of Practice in Microsurgery. Ioannina, November 3-9, 2002
2. International Symposium. Modern Aspects and Developments in the Treatment of Knee Diseases. Larissa, December 2-4, 2004
3. 1st Hellenic Conference of the Greek Society of Knee Surgery-Sports Injuries “Georgios Noulis” & 5th Symposium of Arthroscopic Surgery. Thessaloniki, June 16-18, 2005
4. 1st Richard Wolf ACL-Kadaver Workshop, October 20-21, 2006, Kittlingen, Germany
5. 5th Seminar of Hand Surgical Anatomy (and Practice). Metsovo, October 25-28, 2007
6. 1st Shoulder Arthroscopy Course, ESSKA Upper Limb Committee, Athens, October 31 & November 1, 2008
7. Workshop on Locking Nails by Dr. Gilbert Taglang, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Strasburg, March 11-12, 2010
8. BLS/AED (Basic Life Support) Provider Course (European Resuscitation Council), Arta, May 23, 2010
9. Hands-on Workshop in EFORT Instructional Course: “Osteoarthritis: Joint preserving surgery (JPS) of the lower extremity, Basel, Switzerland, November 11-12, 2011
10. Arthrex Knee & Shoulder Course, ArthroLab, Munich/Germany, December 9-10, 2011
11. 6th Congress of the Hellenic Arthroscopic Association “George Noulis” Patra, 22 - 25 April 2015
12. Seminar of Arthroscopy of the Knee, Larissa,15-16 April 2016
13. ESSKA Advanced Knee Course, York, United Kingdom, 3-4 October 2016
14. ESSKA Advanced Ankle Arthroscopy Course Munich, Germany, 27 -28 November 2017
15. 1st Panhellenic Arthroscopic Seminar of the Knee Joint, Athens, 30- 31 March 2018
16. Larissa Advanced Arthroscopic Cadaver Course, Larissa, 16 -17 November 2018
17. 1st Seminar of Clinical Anatomy of the Knee, Larissa, 31 January – 1 February 2020
18. 2nd Panhellenic Arthroscopic Seminar of the Knee Joint, Ioannina 10-11 September 2021

Scientific Work:

Publications in Journals

1. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With a Quadrupled Hamstring Autograft Does Not Restore Tibial Rotation
A.Georgoulis, S. Ristanis, V. Chouliaras, C. Moraiti, N. Stergiou
Techniques in Orthopaedics, 20(3):328-333, 2005
2. Tibial rotation is not Restored after ACL Reconstruction with a Hamstring Graft.
A.Georgoulis, S. Ristanis, V. Chouliaras, C. Moraiti, N. Stergiou
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 454:89-94, 2007
3. Effectiveness of reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament with Quadrupled Hamstrings and Bone-patellar tendon-Bone Autografts. An In-Vivo study comparing Tibial Internal-External Rotation.
V. Chouliaras, S. Ristanis, C. Moraiti, N. Stergiou, A.Georgoulis
American Journal of Sports Medicine, 35(2):189-196,2007.
4. Diagnosis and Arthroscopic Treatment of Primary Synovial Chondromatosis of the Shoulder
A. Tokis, S. Andrikoula, V. Chouliaras, H. Vasiliadis, A.Georgoulis
Arthroscopy, 23(9):1023e1-1023e5, 2007
5. Rotationsinstabilitat im knie nach VKB-Rekonstruktion in Single Bundle-Technik
V. Chouliaras, A. Georgoulis, A. Driessen
ATOS news, Oktober 2007, 28-31.
6. Rare causes of scoliosis and spine deformity: experience and particular features.
K.Soultanis, A.Paytakes, V. Chouliaras, G.Mandellos, N.Pyrovolou, F.Pliarchopoulou, P.N.Soucacos.
Scoliosis, Oct 23:2(1):15, 2007
7. History of ACL. From Galen to Double-Bundle ACL Reconstruction.
V. Chouliaras, H. Paessler
Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Hellenica, 58(2): 116-127, 2007.
8.Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction with a quadrupled hamstrings tendon autograft does not restore tibial rotation to normative levels during landing from a jump and subsequent pivoting.
V. Chouliaras, S. Ristanis, C. Moraiti, V. Tzimas, N. Stergiou, A.Georgoulis
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 49(1):64-70, 2009.
9. Guesstimation of posterior malleolar fractures on lateral plain radiographs
Meijer DT, Doornberg JN, Sierevelt IN, Mallee WH, van Dijk CN, Kerkhoffs GM, Stufkens SA; Ankle Platform Study Collaborative – Science of Variation Group;
Palmanovich E, van Sterkenburg M, Engvall A, Arroyo E, Golovakha M, Pereira E, Josep Torrent ET, Haverkamp D, Bojanic I, Sousa M, Aragon OC, Russo A, Cortes C, Pánics G, Vide J, Spanos L, Carvalho MS, Maggi P, Thomas Z, Tanaka H, Dinato M, Fay J, Kimtys V, Correia Moreira AJ, Hatziemmanuil D, Low TC, van der Plaat LW, Mora AD, van Rensen I, Del Vecchio J, Ramos J, Azevedo J, Bustamante C, Oliveira A, Zaw H, Kurup H, Yli-Kyyny T, Baca E, Haapasalo H, Bakhtamyan G, Zbikowski P, Kalb J, Hemmingsson P, Pinheiro M, Davenport J, Guidi PL, Simoes da Silva AP, Martinho G, Spennacchio P, Postnov Y, Dreiangel N, Junior NG, Frangez I, Bissell I, Khan Y, Toom A, Bergen Cv, Liszka H, Moreno N, Patczai B, van den Bogaert M, Marquis C, Hussein AK, Andersen M, Botezatu L, Santos FF, Nery C, Becirbegovc S, Stoffel CL, Ferrao P, Rakovac I, Darabos N, Sicchiero P, Tengiz K, Keiserman L, Yeap EJ, Rocha de Souza AL, Abdulsalam S, Ramos A, Martinelli N, Verfaillie S, Silva C, Stufkens S, Chouliaras V, da Costa D, Freihaut R, Bulstra G, Burg A, Rudge B, Abdelwahab A, Sirio A, Watson T, Gaspar AR, Sharp I, Hossain M, van Deurzen D, van den Bekerom M, Wiegerinck JJ, van Eekeren I, de Muinck Keizer RJ.
Injury. 2015 Oct;46(10):2024-9
9. Arthroscopic Removal of Tenosynovial Giant-Cell Tumors of the Cruciate Ligaments. Presentation of Two Cases.
D. Flevas, A. Karagiannis, E. Patsea, V. Kontogeorgakos. V. Chouliaras
Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports. 2021, Apr;11(4):23-27
10. Arthroscopic Excision of an Intra-Articular Osteochondroma of the Knee
V. Chouliaras, I. Sotiriadis, D. Flevas
Cureus, 2021, Aug13;13(8):e17154

Chapters in Books

1. The Anteromedial Portal for Anterior Cruiate Ligament Reconstruction.
Bernard M., Ristanis S., Chouliaras V., Paessler H., Georgoulis A. in
The Anterior Cruciate Ligament. Reconstruction and Basic Science by Prodromos, 2008 by Saunders Elsevier

He has also 10 Publications of Abstracts in International Magazines and 3 publications of Abstracts in Greek Magazines

He has performed more than 50 Lectures in Hellenic and International Congreses.

He has more than 70 oral presentations in Hellenic and International Congresses and more than 30 Poster Presentations

AWARDS:
1)Best clinical Paper Award at the 61th National Hellenic Ortopaedic Congress with the support of British Trauma Society in 12-15 Octomber 2005, in Athens for the Paper:
ACL Reconstruction and tibial rotation: Comparison of BPTB gaft with a Quadrupled Hamstring tendons graft, by:
V. Chouliaras, S. Ristanis, C. Moraiti, N. Stergiou, A. Georgoulis.
2) The Young Researcher Award sponsored by Professor Cerulli at the 12th ESSKA 2000 Congress, in 224-27 May 2006, in Innsburg for the Paper: The effectiveness of reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament with quadrupled hamstrings and bone-patellar tendon-bone autografts. An in-vivo study comparing tibial rotation by:
S. Ristanis, V. Chouliaras, C. Moraiti, N. Stergiou, A. Georgoulis.
3) 3rd Best Paper Award at the 10th International Congress of the Hellenic Sports Medicine Association & 8th Cyprus-Greece Congress in Veroia in19-21 March 2010 for the Paper:
A prospective CT-study of Bone tunnel enlargement after ACL reconstruction with a qudrupled Hamstrings tendon autograft.
V. Chouliaras, D. Giotis, C.Kontogiannis, S. Boulis, A. Grestas, C. Tatsis

Member in Committees-Associations:

Member of the Hellenic Society of Arthroscopy Knee Surgery & Sports Injuries “George Noulis,
Treasurer of the Hellenic Society of Arthroscopy Knee Surgery & Sports Injuries (2013-2018)
2nd Vice President of the Hellenic Society of Arthroscopy Knee Surgery & Sports Injuries (2018-2020)
1st Vice President of the Hellenic Society of Arthroscopy Knee Surgery & Sports Injuries (2018-2020)
Member of the Hellenic Orthropaedic Society (HAOST)
Member of the Hellenic Association of Bone Metabolic Diseases
Member of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA 2000)
Member of PFI Committee of ESSKA (2020-2022)
Member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Ortopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS)
Member of the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)

He has been also member of organizing committees of several congresses and seminars.

He has participated in more than 150 seminars, congresses (CME 1417)

He is reviewer in Cureus
He has been reviewer in KSSTA

He is the Editor of the Newsletter of Hellenic Arthroscopic Society (Arthroscope)