Prof. George Pados, GREECE

Professor of Obstetrics-Gynaecology , Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece E-mail: padosgyn@gmail.com George Pados studied Medicine at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, from 1975 until 1981 and graduated as a medical doctor. He served his military service from 1982 until 1983 and then his rural medical service from 1983 to 1984. Then he started his training in General Surgery from 6-1984 until 6-1985 and specialized in Obstetrics-Gynaecology in the 1st Dept of OB-GYN, Aristotle University during the period 1986-1990. Following his medical studies he took his Ph.D. in Assisted Reproduction at Aristotle University and completed his postdoctoral Research Fellowship on Endoscopic Surgery and Assisted Reproduction in the Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Brussels Free University (AZ-VUB) in 1991 and 1992. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION -Invited speaker at over 89 international and 175 Hellenic scientific conferences -Invited member of the Program Organizing Committee of 42 international and 89 Hellenic scientific meetings - Member of International Committees of presentations review in 9 Congresses - Member of the Editorial Board of 4 International and 5 Hellenic Scientific Journals -Reviewer in 105International and 2 National Scientific journals - Board member in 2 International and 2 Hellenic scientific Societies -Member in 6 International and 15 Hellenic scientific Societies PUBLICATIONS -90 publications in international and 54 in Hellenic Scientific journals -Editor/ co-editor of one English book and 5 Greek books on Endoscopic surgery in Gynecology, as well as 9 chapters in English and other 8 chapters in Greek medical books DISTINCTIONS -General Secretary of the Hellenic Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy 1997- 2009 -President of the Hellenic Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy 2009-2012 -Member of the ESHRE Committee on Endoscopic Surgery -Co-organizer of the ESHRE International Workshop on Endoscopic Surgery, Thessaloniki, 1996 -General Secretary of the 14th ESGE Annual Congress, Athens, 2005 -Member of the Advisory Board of the European Society for Gynecological Endoscopy 2014-2017. -National Representative in ESHRE 2014-2017. -President of the Hellenic Society for Fertility & Sterility, 2016-until now. -President of the 28th Congress of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019 - Coordinator of the European certification program of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology GESEA-ECRES (ESHRE) in Reproductive Surgery, 2019-2023 - Senior Deputy of Special Interest Group in Reproductive Surgery of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), 2020-2022 - Coordinator of Special Interest Group in Reproductive Surgery of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Reproductive Surgery, 2022-2024 Member of the Steering Committee of ARTCC of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), 2022-until now - Chairman of the Special Interest Group (SIG) of the European Society for Gynaecological Surgery (ESGE), 2019-until now. Representative of Greece in the EuMAR project of the ESHRE for the MAR European Data Registry (2023) AWARDS Two awards in International and 3 in national CITATION INDEX : 2142 Impact factor: 154.23 H-Index: 21