Consultant Pediatric ENT Dept since March of 2021. Before that, I was the Director of the EUROCLINIC Children’s ENT Clinic, and since 1986, I had been the Director of the ENT clinic of the the children’s hospital “P & A Kyriakou”.
I have a rich and longlasting surgical experience in the treatment of children’s ENT clinical cases.
My surgical experience covers a wide range of common and more specialized operations such as adenoidectomy,tonsillectomy,tonsilotomy,neck cysts surgery,bronchoscopies -tracheal foreign bodies removal -, ear surgeries for acute -complicated cases and chronic cases (tympanoplasties and cholosteatoma surgeries)
I’m also highly experienced in endoscopies of newborns and infants and endoscopic procedures of larynx and trachea (supraglottoplasty,subglotic cysts removal etc)
-PhD from Athens University (1993)
-Specialisation in ENT, Head and Neck Surgery (1982-1986)
-Doctor of Medicine - University of Athens (1979)
-Consultant Pediatric ENT Dept., Mitera Hospital, HHG Group
-Head of ENT, Euroclinic Children's Hospital
-Head of Pediatric ENT Dept. ‘A.Kyriakou’ Children’s Hospital of Athens (2008-2017)
-Consultant Pediatric ENT Dept.‘A.Kyriakou’ Children’s Hospital of Athens (1986-2008)
-Resident, ENT Dep.t of Ippokration University Hospital (1984-1986)
-Resident, Pediatric ENT Dept. ‘A.Kyriakou’ Children’s Hospital of Athens (1982-1984)
-Resident,General Surgery (1981-1982)
-Medical Practitioner (12 months)
-Armed Forces National Service as Reserve Medical Officer (1 yr)
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Chilrdren. (Dept.of Paediatric Otolaryngology) London - England ( 5 months in 2005)
5 Workshops on EAR surgery and Cochlear Implants in ENT Dept University of Wuertzburg Germany
2 Workshops on Cochlear Implants in ENT Dept University of Insbruk Austria
1 Workshop on Cochlear Implants in ENT Dept University of Zurich Switzerland
Surgical training at the Unfallkrankenhaus ,Berlin,Germany
CI Surgical Foundation Course Mechelen,Belgium
Workshop on BOT (Bone Obliteration Tympanoplasty) Antwerp Belgium
I took part in a great number of workshops and seminars:
1.3rd International Symposium on Cochlear Mechanisms and Otoacoustic Emissions
CENTER OF SYSTEM THEORY CNR, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING,POLYTECHNIC OF MILAN.
Rome 4-5-6.12.92
2.Advanced Temporal Bone Lab Course.
ENT Dept. University Clinic.Wurtzburg,Germany.December 10-11,1999.
3.Special Course on Middle Ear Surgery and Cochlear Implants
ENT –Department University Clinic Wurzburg Germany.May 7-11,2000.
4.Cochlear Implant Workshop
Department of Otolaryngology Head &Neck Surgery University Hospital
Zurich,Switzerland.November 30-December 2,2000.
5.7th International Course on Microsurgery of the Ear.
ENT –Department University Clinic Wurzburg Germany.April 23-25,2001
6. 5th Innsbruck Course on Middle Ear Surgery and Cochlear Implants.
O+R+L Clinic University of Innsbruck, Austria.28.11 - 01.12.2001
7.Technical Training Program to the handling of the COMBI-40 and the COMBI 40+
Cohlear Implants.
Medel Company
Insbruck,Austria ,December 2001.
8.GN ReSound course
‘’State of the Art of Middle Ear and Lateral Skull Base Microsurgery’’
Athens ,5th October 2002
9.Hearing Loss 2003
Evaluation,Medical and Surgical Treatment
Athens,28-31 August 2003
10.Controversial Surgical techniques in Tympanoplasty
Course of the scientific Programme of the 5th EUFOS Congress 2004
Rodos –Kos Hellas, September 11-16,2004
11.The British Paediatric Otolaryngology Course
Glasgow UK,17th&18th March 2005
12.Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children Europe 2005
London UK,13-14 May 2005
13.British Paediatric Otolaryngology Course
London UK,16-17 March 2006
14.Cochlear Implants 2006 – The State of the Art
Nottingham UK,2 Nov. 2006
15.6th Wullstein Symposium. (Ear Implantable Devices - Temporal Bone Course)
Wurzburg Germany,7-10 December 2006
16.EAS Electric Acoustic Stimulation Hearing Preservation
Surgical Workshop
13th -15th June 2013.UZA Universitair Ziekenhuis .Antwerpen ,Belgium
17.Surgical Training at The Unfallkrankenhaus.
8th-9th of October 2013.Berlin,Germany
-Trainer in several ENT courses
-Organizer of 3 Greek-European Courses
-Organizing scientific committee of 25 European and World Congresses
-Participant in PhD research of 9 candidates
-Participant in 10 Research projects
-Trainer in residents and students of Medical School of Athens University
-Coordinator in 49 Greek Congresses
-Coordinator in 25 International-European Congresses and Courses
-Presentations in 26 Greek Congresses
-Presentations in 20 International Congresses
-45 Publications in International Congresses
-115 publications in Greek Congresses
-40 Publications in Greek Medical Journals
-15 Publications in International Journals
-Author of one chapter of’’DEVELOPMENTS IN GENETIC HEARING IMPAIRMENT’’.
Chapter 5.Epidimiology of hereditary hearing impairment in
childhood-preliminary estimates from the European Union.
Edited by D.Stephens,A.Read and A.Martini Whurr Publihers,London 1998.
-Author in 3 Greek books of AUDIOLOGY and OTORINOLARYNGOLOGY
-Presentation at ESPO 2018 Stockholm
-20th Panhellenic ORL congress
-Participation in the European pediatric ENT conference ESPO STUTGARD GERMANY 3-6 MAY 2025
-ESPO (European Society Pediatric ORL) Member
-Hellenic ENT, Head and Neck Surgery Society.
-Greek Association of ENT Allergiology and Immunology.
-Hellenic Society of Sleep Disorders
-Hellenic Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology
-European Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology
-The Mediterranian Society of Otology and Audiology
-Greek
-English
Pediatric ENT diseases
Pediatric Audiology & Neonatal hearing screening
Pediatric Ear-surgery including cochlear implants
Pediatric Oral - Surgery
Pediatric Neck-surgery
Airway Endoscopy and endoscopic surgery in neonates and children
Salivary glands surgery
SURGICAL PROCEDURES
Adenoidectomy (traditional,RF,Shaver)
Tonsilectomy-Tonsilotomy (Traditional,RF,Shaver,Complation)
Tongue tie incision
Ranulla excision
Partial glosectomy
Drooling
Supraglotoplasty of larynx (laryngomalacia)
Cysts of larynx (removal)
Cricoid split
Pediatric tracheotomy
Neck cysts and sinuses excision
Lymphnodes biopsy
Thyroglosal cyst excision
Cystic hygroma excision
Salivary glands surgery
Ear surgery
Accesory auricles excision
Prominent ears correction
Myringotomy and tube insertion
Myringoplasty
Cholosteatoma surgery in children (ICW,CWD)
Extracurricular activities:
In addition to my medical engagement, I deal with viticulture and sports (running, cycling etc).
Michail D. Tsakanikos MD, PhD.
Pediatric Otolaryngologist
Private Office
5 Mavrommataion Str., 10682, Athens, Ground Floor (Next to the Archaeological Museum)
Tel.: 6977 311686
MITERA Children's Hospital
Erithrou Stavrou 6 ,
Marousi 15123
Tel 210686900
