Professor Tsiridis (DOB 1968) is the Secretary General of the European Hip Society and the Founder & Chairman of the Arthroplasty Center ICAROS. He is an attending Surgeon at the Academic Orthopaedic Department of Aristotle University (AUTh) Medical School in Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Honorary Senior Lectureship with the Imperial College London, UK; is Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) and the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He hold a PhD from the King’s College London UK on bone grafting biology and stem cells; an MSc in Orthopaedics from the University College London (UCL); and an MD cum laude from the Athens University Medical School in Greece. He completed his residency in UCL affiliated hospitals in London UK, fellowship trained in Boston Medical Center, Boston , MA, USA and Exeter Hip Unit in Exeter UK; sabbatical trained at Harvard and then practiced as Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Leeds University Hospitals. He has published 160 pubmed papers attracting more than 6,000 citations (h:37), several book chapters and he lectures regularly around the world. He is the recipient of the prestigious “Rothman-Ranawat”, “Latta” and “Onassis” Fellowships. He is the Founder & Chairman of the Arthroplasty Registry Thessaloniki (ART), the Center of Orthopaedic Research (C.O.RE.) at AUTh and co-founder & CSO of the ovidVR.SA (virtual reality orthopaedics). Attended law and politics sciences at Athens and Harvard Universities; social entrepreneur and innovator is married with three children and ex-special forces army officer.