Siganos Dimitrios

MD Phd

Dr Dimitrios Siganos having qualified from the University of Cairo Medical School as M.B., B.Ch. and holding the title of MSc.(Ophth), he continued his academic career at the University of Crete, Greece as lecturer and, later, as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology.
LASIK, as a word, appears for the first time in medicine in his PhD thesis, having worked with Prof. Pallikaris from the first moment the procedure was “born” and for ten consecutive years. He co-published the first ever clinical paper on LASIK and took part in FDA studies for Autonomous Technologies. 

Dr Dimitrios Siganos is founder and director of the Vlemma Eye Center in Athens. Also, he is acting as clinical advisor and freelance surgeon in refractive and cataract surgery in many centers in Europe and the Middle East.
He is internationally considered to be one of the pioneering surgeons, not only in refractive surgery but also in premium lenses cataract surgery and presbyopia correction. He introduced clear lensectomy to ophthalmology for the correction of hyperopia and presbyopia. He was among the first to implant ICLs for the correction of myopia and hyperopia-astigmatism.  He was also the first surgeon in Europe to use and publicize Ferrara rings for the treatment of keratoconus and was at the spearhead of the clinical trials of the Pascal tonometer for glaucoma, myopia and keratoconus.

His bibliography includes tens of original references and reviews in medical journals, book chapters and presentations at conferences at the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and other international conferences. He has thousands of citations of his work.
His full publications can be found in the U.S. national library of medicine

Active Member or past member of the following Ophthalmological Societies:

• The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
• The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) 
• The European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) 
• The International College of Surgeons (F.I.C.S.) 
• The Society of Eye Surgeons (S.E.S) 
• The International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) 
• La Societe Francaise d’Ophtalmologie 
• Instituto Barraquer (Spain) 
• The Egyptian Ophthalmological Society 
• The Mediterranean Medical Society 
• Panhellenic Ophthalmological Society 
• Ophthalmological Society of Crete
• Ophthalmological Society of Cyprus 
• Hellenic Ophthalmological Society
• Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery