Petros kokkalis biography

          Professor Petros Kokkalis was a distinguished professor of Medicine in the University of Athens has been one of the leading figures of Medicine in pre WWII..

          Member of the European Parliament for Greece.

        1. Member of the European Parliament for Greece.
        2. Petros S. Kokkalis is a Greek businessman and member of the European Parliament.
        3. Professor Petros Kokkalis was a distinguished professor of Medicine in the University of Athens has been one of the leading figures of Medicine in pre WWII.
        4. Professor Petros Kokkalis was born on September 18, , in Livadia, the second child of Socrates Dim. Kokkalis ( – ), the philologist-headmaster.
        5. He studied Modern History at the University of Hampshire, and earned his master's degree in public administration at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

          6. Professor Petros Kokkalis (18.9.1896 - 15.1.1962), a distinguished professor of Medicine in the University of Athens has been one of the leading figures of Medicine in pre WWII Greece, introducing pioneering methods in thoracic surgery and neurosurgery.

          His main medical achievements include the introduction of thoracoplasty in Greece and removal of the frenetic nerve for the treatment of tuberculosis, as well as the first pneumonectomy with the Tourniquet method and the first pericardiectomy for the release of compressive pericarditis.

          Petros Kokkalis

          Biography

          Kokkalis was born in Livadeia, Greece, the second child of Socrates Dim.

          Kokkalis (1856 – 1944), the philologist-headmaster from Arachova, and of Polyxeni Nakou (1866 – 1937). He married in 1938 to Niki Kouletsi (1913-1997) and had two children, Socrates (1939) and Avgi-Polyxeni (1944-2015).

          Kokkalis registered at the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1911 but after 1913 he continued his studies at t