He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. At the age of 18 he entered the Medical School of Athens University after successful exams, graduated after 6 years and obtained his doctoral thesis from the same University with ‘excellent’ degree in 1984.
He has served as an officer in the Greek Army.
Minos Tyllianakis was appointed as an Orthopaedic Registrar in the Orthopaedic Department of Patras University Hospital in 1989. He was elected lecturer of Patras University in 1992, assistant professor in 1997, associate professor in 2003 and professor in 2007.
He has authored 113 papers in international scientific journals which can be traced in the Web. He has given 230 oral presentations in congresses and symposia in Greece and abroad. Some of them have been awarded. As an invited speaker he has given 408 lectures, mainly abroad.
He has organized or co-organized 67 national and international congresses, courses, symposia, the most prominent being the globally known AOTrauma course on osteosynthesis in Davos, Switzerland (2015 and 2016).
He has been member of AO International, the largest globally organization specialized in training surgeons in orthopaedic traumatology and has founded its Greek Chapter (AOTrauma Chapter Greece) in 2008, which he chaired until 2019. He served as president of South-eastern Europe of this foundation from 2015 to 2017.
He has been the Greek delegate in European organizations, has participated in international research programs and has been member of 14 orthopaedic, Greek and international, societies and editorial boards of orthopaedic journals. He has been Section Editor of the world-renowned journal Hip International since 7.2018.
He has been trained in hand surgery and microsurgery in Switzerland and USA).
He had been Head of the Orthopaedic Department of Patras University Hospital (2016-2019), Chairman of the Surgical Section of Patras University (2015-2018) and since 2020 Head of the Rehabilitation Clinic for Spinal Cord Injuries of Patras University [apokatastasi.upatras.gr]
Main scientific and clinical interests
orthopaedic trauma surgery, reconstructive surgery, upper limb surgery, microsurgery, foot and ankle surgery, rehabilitation
There are 21 in Greek (please see the Greek page)
The effect of group versus home-based exercise programme on quality of life and mood disorders in elderly with sarcopenia: a randomized controlled trial
Tsekoura M, Billis E, Tsepis E, Matzaroglou C, Dimitriadis Z, Tyllianakis M, Panagiotopoulos E, Gliatis J
World Conferrence on Osteoporosis Osteoarthritis and Musculosceletal Diseases, Paris, 4-7.4.2019
Is calf circumference a valid clinical measure for evaluating muscle mass in the elderly ?
Tsekoura M, Billis E, Tsepis E, Matzaroglou C, Tyllianakis M, Panagiotopoulos E, Gliatis J
World Conferrence on Osteoporosis Osteoarthritis and Musculosceletal Diseases, Paris, 4-7.4.2019
Supervised group-exercise versus home-based exercisetherapy: their effects on balance and fear of falling in elderly with sarcopenia
Tsekoura M, Billis E, Tsepis E, Dimitriadis Z, Tyllianakis M, Panagiotopoulos E, Gliatis J
WPCT Congress, Geneva, 10-13.5.2019
Predictors of outcome of 285 patients with arterial trauma managed during a 30-year period
Stavros Kakkos , Minos Tyllianakis , Andreas Panagopoulos , Zinon Kokkalis, Ioanna Lianou, Efstratios Koletsis, Ioannis Tsolakis, Ioannis Maroulis
33 rd Annual Meeting European Society for Vascular Surgery, Hamburg, 24-27.9.2019
Non-Reconstructable Head-Split Fractures- Dislocations Of The Proximal Humerus With Metaphyseal Comminution Treated With Metaphyseal Circlage Wiring Kai Shoulder Hemiarthroplasty With Long Stem: Description Of 2 Cases
A Panagopoulos, A Bavelou, E Papanikos, I Lianou, D Tatarakis, D Avramidis, M Tyllianakis
Virtual EFORT Congress (VEC), 28 October - 30 October 2020.
Midterm Clinical Results And Complications In Patients With Malleolar Fracture Dislocation Who Underwent A Two-Stage Protocol, First With External Fixation And Later With ORIF
A Panagopoulos, AI Bavelou, E Papanikos, D Athanasopoulos, I Lianou, A Kouzelis Z Kokkalis, M Tyllianakis
Virtual EFORT Congress (VEC), 28 October - 30 October 2020.
The effect of vitamins Cyanocobalamin (B12) and 25-OH-vitamin D3 (D3) and anticholinergic drugs on balance and falls. Results from a geriatric patients sample in the clinic for fall prevention, osteoporosis and sarcopenia (C.F.P.O.S) of the General Univer
K Stolakis, Z Kokkalis, E Antoniadou, X Kalivioti, A Koloniari, M Mentis, P Megas, M Tyllianakis, E Panagiotopoulos
EuGMS E-CONGRESS 2020 October 7/9
Covid-19: Lessons and Challenges for health care for old people
Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Design after Van Nes Rotationplasty of the Left Leg Due to Severe Burn Contractures in a Patient with Contralateral Amputated Right Femur: A Case Report
M Tyllianakis, A Panagopoulos*, K Fokas, Argyriadi E and P Megas
The Open Orthoapedics Journal, 1874-3250/19
Combined Optimized Effect of a Highly Self-Organized nanosubstrate and an electric field on osteoblast bone cells activity
Diana V. Portan, Despina D. Deligianni, George C. Papanicolaou, Vassilis Kostopoulos, Georgios C. Psarras, and Minos Tyllianakis
BioMed Research International Volume 2019, Article ID 7574635, 8 pages
The role of amputative and non-amputative foot deformities severity in the risk for diabetic ulceration classification systems building: a cross-sectional and case-control pilot investigation.
Kossioris, A., Tentolouris, V., Loupa & Tyllianakis, M
Pan Afr Med J. 33. (2019)
Neurovascular Bundle Entrapment and Through Knee Amputation After Cerclage Cabling of Distal Femoral Peri-implant Fracture: A Case Report
Andreas Panagopoulos 1, Ioannis Lachanas 2, Antonis Kouzelis 1, Zinon T Kokkalis 1, Minos Tyllianakis
JBJS Case Connect 10 (1), e0194, Jan-Mar 2020
Fractures of the distal femur – treatment options
AOTrauma Advanced Course, Sofia, 24-27.1.2019
IM nailing – what’s hot what’s not
AOTrauma Advanced Course, Sofia, 24-27.1.2019
Tibial plateau fractures – early and definitive treatment
AOTrauma Advanced Course, Sofia, 24-27.1.2019
Complex tibial plateau fractures
AOTrauma Advanced Principles of Fracture Management, 10–12.4.2019 Sec, Czech Republic
Clinical indications for locked and conventional plating
AOTrauma Advanced Principles of Fracture Management, 10–12.4.2019 Sec, Czech Republic
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