Dr. Konstantinos Starantzis has a PhD from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), and he is the Director of the Orthopedic Clinic at the Department of Spine Surgery and Scoliosis at Athens Medical Group (AMG) (Marousi). He is also the Scientific Director and Head of the Spine Department of Osteon Orthopedic Clinic.
He collaborates with doctors who have exceptional scientific training to provide you with comprehensive and specialized care. A staunch advocate of evidence-based medicine, he emphasizes treatments that are supported by scientific research. He prefers to operate only when no alternative options are available for the patient. While he has a keen interest in modern techniques, particularly minimally invasive ones, he chooses to utilize them only when appropriate, never when traditional methods are safer and more effective.
Dr. Starantzis is a member of many Greek and foreign scientific committees and organizations, and he remains academically active as he has a PhD from the University of Athens with dozens of articles and pioneering surgical techniques published in scientific journals and reviews abroad. He also participated in the writing and translation of contemporary orthopedic textbooks.
He was born in Athens. In 2001, he graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Thessaly. In 2002, he completed his obligatory rural practice and immediately began the general part of his specialty at the 2nd Surgery Clinic of the “Asklepieion” Hospital in Voula.
In 2003, after completing the general part of his specialty, he moved to the United Kingdom to specialize in Orthopedics and Traumatology. He began his basic training in Orthopedics at Addenbrooke’s Hospital part of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and completed it at the University Hospital of King’s College in London, which includes Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2006, he returned to Greece to fulfil his military service obligations in the Medical Corps as a Hoplite Doctor.
In 2007, he was appointed to the 1st Orthopedic Clinic of the University of Athens, under the direction of Professor P.N. Soukakou, to complete his specialization in Orthopedics. Specializing in Spine Surgery, Dr Starantzis received extensive and targeted training at recognized centres in Greece and abroad, working alongside leading surgeons in the field. In February 2012, under the direction of Professor and Director P.I. Papagelopoulou, he completed his specialization and earned the title of Orthopedic Surgeon. During this time, he conducted the clinical trials for his PhD thesis and began writing it. In the same year, he became a full member of the College of Greek Orthopedic Surgeons (after passing the required examinations), and he received the honorary Fellowship of the European Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (EFORT Traveling Fellowship), representing Greece at the European Fellows’ meeting in Barcelona and Madrid in 2012.
Immediately after that, he began his subspecialty in the field of Spine Surgery at the Queen’s Medical Center that is the world-renowned medical center of Nottingham under the general guidance of Dr John Webb (who is perhaps the most famous and most prestigious British Spine Surgeon). Then, he was given the opportunity to continue his subspecialty in Bristol where he gained significant experience that enabled him to assume a Managerial position in the National Health System (NHS) in Great Britain.
Since 2014, he has had a long tenure as a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at North Staffordshire University Hospital in the United Kingdom (with a 1,500-bed capacity). This specific hospital is one of the most recognized referral centers for complex spinal disorders in the UK, covering a population of 3,500,000 people.
In 2016, he was declared a Doctor of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (PhD degree) with a grade of “Excellent”.
In 2018, he became the Director of the 5th Orthopedic Department at Metropolitan General Hospital but soon moved to the Euroclinic Group as Director Spine Surgeon. Since June 2020, he has been the Director of the Orthopedic Clinic at the Department of Spine Surgery and Scoliosis at Athens Medical Group (AMG) in a clinic, which was staffed by top colleagues in all Orthopedic specialties.
He is also the Scientific Director and Head of the Spine Department of the Osteon Orthopedic & Spine Clinic.
That same year, he also assumed the role of Director of the Spine and Scoliosis Department at the Model Scoliosis Center of the Athens Pediatric Center, a position he continues to hold to this day
He served as Head Physician (in charge of spinal injuries and disorders) for the Olympiacos F.C. football team during the 2024–2025 season, when the team won both the Greek Championship and the Greek Cup.
Dr. Starantzis remains actively involved in academia as a PhD holder from the University of Athens, with dozens of published articles and original surgical techniques featured in international scientific journals. He has also contributed to the writing and translation of modern orthopedic textbooks.
Since 2023, he has taken on the role of Clinical Instructor for medical students at the European University Cyprus (EUC), playing an active part in educating the next generation of physicians.
Dr. Konstantinos Starantzis, Director of the Spine and Scoliosis Surgery Clinic at the Athens Medical Center, has received one of the most prestigious distinctions in the field of spine surgery: his clinic has been certified as a Surgical Spine Centre of Excellence by EUROSPINE, the leading European organization in spine surgery.
- SIGASCOT Award – Best Podium Presentation, 8th EFOST Congress on Sports Traumatology, Turin, Italy, 2015
- EFORT Travelling Fellowship, Autumn 2012 (Barcelona–Madrid)
Dr. Konstantinos Starantzis has a substantial body of scientific work, with numerous publications in international peer-reviewed medical journals. His research focuses primarily on spinal disorders and the development of innovative treatment approaches.
REVIEWER
- CORR – Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- Injury
- Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
- MOJ group
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
- GMC FULL Registration No 6061215
- BASS full membership (British Association of Spine Surgeons)
- BSS full membership (British Scoliosis Society)
- BMA full membership
- MPS
- Hellenic College of Orthopaedic Surgeon (full-after examinations)
- Hellenic Association of Spine Surgeons (full)
- Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (full)
- Medical Association of Athens (full)
- Program Committee Officer – EUROSPINE