KYPROS NIKOLAIDIS

Probably you don't know the man in the photo above. But if you are a mother or you are pregnant right now his researh on fetoscopic techniques and procedures has already chance your life. 

Kypros Nicolaides  is a Cypriot maternal fetal medicine specialist, and a world expert in fetal surgery and interventions.

Nicolaides was born in 1953 in Paphos, Cyprus. He studied medicine at King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry in London and soon after graduation joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1980, doing research, working mainly on fetoscopic techniques and procedures. He was well known for his manual dexterity at procedures and their  team soon produced some very important papers on the use offetoscopy in the management of a wide range of conditions such Rhesus iso-immunization, fetal hydrops and intrauterine growth restriction, and procedures such as blood and tissue sampling in the diagnosis of single gene defects.

After the departure of Professor Rodeck, Nicolaides became director of the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine*, the first fetal medicine unit in the United Kingdom. His programme of research and teaching made King's College Hospital an important centre of fetal medicine.

He has contributed to over one thousand journal articles and more than thirty books and monographs.

*The Fetal Medicine Centre is a private clinic that carries out ultrasound scans for pregnant women. The Director of the clinic is professor Kypros Nicolaides. All profits from the clinic are donated to The Fetal Medicine Foundation**.

**The Fetal Medicine Foundation is a charitable organisation at the forefront of research, education and training in fetal medicine. It is supported by The Fetal Medicine Centre and by private donations.

Everything i write until here are copied from wikipedia and fetal medicine official page. But speaking of me i can only tell how proud i am that one more Greek doctor makes the world better.