Dimitrios Pitsinis (

Kyparissia Kyparissia () is a town and a former municipality in northwestern Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Trifylia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has ...

, 18 February 1925 –

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, 3 September 2003) was a Greek surgeon, university teacher and health industry promoter.

Early life

He was born in the small town of

in the west of the

Peloponnese The Peloponnese ( ), Peloponnesus ( ; , ) or Morea (; ) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridg ...

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in a family of 7 brothers and sisters. He lost his mother at a very early stage and grew up under the care of his two elder sisters. He finished high school in Kyparissia and he then was successfully admitted in the medical school of the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

Professional life

Although he was stopped from medical school for 3 years in order to be listed in the army for the

Greek Civil War The Greek Civil War () took place from 1946 to 1949. The conflict, which erupted shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a Communism, Communist-led uprising against the established government of the Kingdom of Greece. The rebels decl ...

he managed to graduate with honour. He went on and trained as surgeon in the 1st department of surgery (Ipokration Hospital). Following a career as an academic surgeon in the University of Athens medical school he became a founding member and co-owner of a prototype private hospital in Athens, Greece under the name Apolonio Therapeftirio where he practiced general surgery for many years. He retired at the age of 75.

Personal life

He was married to Eleni Parasxou late in his life at the age of 50 and had with her one son named Vassilis who also became a surgeon.

External links

Trainee of D. Pitsinis paying honour to their teacher

Pitsinis publications
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pitsinis, Dimitrios 1925 births 2003 deaths National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Greek surgeons 20th-century Greek physicians 21st-century Greek physicians People from Kyparissia 20th-century surgeons