Dr. Petros Nikolaidis, MD, PhD, is a renowned specialist in fetal medicine, a perinatologist, and a professor of obstetrics and genetics at the University of West Attica, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology with a focus on high-risk pregnancy, VBAC, and laparoscopic surgery at Imperial College, London.
He was trained in Athens and London. He holds a degree in fetal medicine, and his PhD thesis was in the field of genetics at Imperial College. A pioneer in fetal medicine, he founded the first fetal medicine unit in Greece, at Mitera Maternity Hospital, in 1991, a Panhellenic reference center for fetal ultrasound. He was also the first to introduce all the new prenatal fetal tests.
From 2001 he has been a professor of obstetrics & genetics at the University of West Attica, where he introduced the Obstetric Ultrasound course and was responsible for the undergraduate course for high-risk pregnancy.
Professor Petros Nikolaidis is the founder and chairman of “Embryoitriki-genetiki” in Maroussi, a leading fetal medicine and genetics diagnostic center that he set up in 1998. It expanded into a growing network of fetal and gynecological screenings in several cities. At the same time, he collaborated with State Maternity Clinics and sent his students for internships in hospitals throughout the country.
In 2017, Petros Nikolaidis became a certified doctor from the Alinsod Institute for the THERMIva®, a groundbreaking method of vaginal rejuvenation with radio frequencies. THERMIva® is a non-surgical feminine treatment for stress incontinence, overactive bladder, atrophic vulvovaginitis, orgasmic dysfunction, vulvar dystrophy, and modern management of menopausal symptoms.
Dr. Nikolaidis has a significant volume of publications in international scientific journals and chapters in medical books and is the editor of the textbooks “Human Genetics” and “Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fetal Ultrasound,” which are the basic textbooks of the University of West Attica’s faculty. He is also a founding member of the International Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of various scientific societies, such as the European Down’s Syndrome Screening Group, European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, British Medical Association, British Medical Council, British Ultrasound Society, Athens Medical Association, Hellenic Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hellenic Society of Perinatal Medicine, and Hellenic Ultrasound Society.
