Konstantinos Stamatis
University of Ioannina
Konstantinos Stamatis is a Surgeon–Intensivist and Assistant Professor of Critical Care with an emphasis on Surgery at the School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, where he works in the University Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Previously, he served as a Consultant at the 1st University Critical Care Clinic of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) at Evangelismos Hospital (2021–2025), where he played a key role in establishing percutaneous tracheostomy with simultaneous bronchoscopy as the standard method of surgical airway in critically ill patients.
He graduated from the School of Medicine of NKUA and received his Ph.D. there for a study of miRNA polymorphisms in inflammatory bowel disease. He completed his surgical residency at the 2nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Hospital (NKUA). He then trained in London in Intensive Care at St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and in kidney and pancreas transplantation and vascular access at Guy's Hospital and the Royal London Hospital.
He holds MSc degrees in Translational Medicine (University of Edinburgh), Stem Cells and Regeneration (University of Bristol) and Data Analysis and Machine Learning (Hellenic Open University).
His research focuses on the management of the critically ill surgical patient through a translational approach and on the application of machine learning and natural language processing in critical care. This includes explainable detection of diagnostic shifts in clinical notes, in collaboration with the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).
He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students, has served on doctoral examination committees, and has contributed to international collaborative studies and book chapters. He is a peer reviewer for international journals, including Respiratory Research and Cureus, and a member of the Hellenic Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).
