Vasileiou Alexandra Ent specialist

PhD/ Thesis

• PhD- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-Doctoral Thesis in Audiology

“Assessment of the contribution of the ASSR in the evaluation of hearing in newborn and young  children” Grade Exceptional

Board Member

• Panhellenic ENT society, Head and Neck surgery

• Panhellenic Pediatric-ENT society

• ESPO-European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Professional Experience

• 2023-today, Director of the Audiological Departament of the 3^rd Pediatric-ENT clinic of MITERA hospital

• 2019-today, Chief Audiologist of the Cochlear Implantation Center of MITERA hospital

• 2022-today, Academic scholar of the postgraduate program -Master’s in Audiology-Neurotology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

• 2016-2023, Consultant of the 1^st Otorhinolaryngology Department of MITERA hospital

• 2009-today, Clinical and Research Fellow at the Audiological Department of the University ENT clinic “Attikon” Hospital- Audiological assessment of newborns, children and adults

• 2015-2016, ENT clinic of Bioiatriki Kifisia

• 2013-2015, Volunteer ENT at the “Doctors of the World”

• 2011-2014, Part of the training for medical Specialty of ENT at the Hospital “Agia Olga”

• 2010-2011, Postgraduate training at the ENT clinic of the University Hospital “Queens Medical Center”, Nottingham, United Kingdom

• 2009-2010, On-call doctor of the surgical department at HYGEIA hospital

• 2009-2020, Audiological assessment with OAE, ABR, ASSR in newborns, babies and children for the thesis of PhD “ Assessment of the contribution of the ASSR in the evaluation of hearing in newborn and young children

• 2009-2010, Newborn Hearing Screening with OAE and a-ABR at the University Hospital “Attikon”

• 2007-2009- Part of the training for medical Specialty of ENT at the Hospital “Pammakaristos”

• 2006- Private office in Dasia, Corfu

• 2005- Part of the training for medical Specialty of ENT, at the Surgical department of the Children’s Hospital Penteli

• 2004-2005, Rural training at the public office of Perni, Chrysoupoli, Kavala

• 2003-2004 Training in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Surgery of the Hospital of Kavala

Education Experience

• 2021-today, Teaching the subject of ENT to the students of medical school of the Kapodistrian University of Athens

• 2019-2020, Medical department of the University of Patra, teaching the subject “Otorhinolaryngology” (Otology- Audiology- Neurotology)

• 2012-2014, Post-graduate ENT lessons at “Konstantopoulio” Hospital

• Trainer at the 23^rd Seminar of the Panhellenic medical Association of Otology-Neurotology, April 2013

• Trainer at the instructional Course “Basic principles of function of OAE, ABR, ASSR, VEMPS, νHIT” at the 27^th Panhellenic congress of Otology- Neurotology

Clinical and Research Interest

Clinical Interest:

• Evaluation and diagnosis of hearing problems of newborns, babies and children

• Evaluation and diagnosis of hearing problems and vertigo in adults

• Evaluation and completing of disability file (KEPA)

• Management of hearing loss with hearing aids and cochlear implant

• Evaluation and treatment of breathing pathology and snoaring

• Tonsilectomy/ Adenoidectomy

• Evaluation and treatment of acute otitis, otitis with effusion, chronic otitis media, cholesteatoma

• Evaluation and treatment of rhinitis and pathology of the paranasal sinuses (endoscopy)

• Evaluation and treatment of hoarseness

• Evaluation and treatment of pathologies of the oral cavity and salivary glands

• Surical management of lip and tongue tie.

Research Interest: 

• Treating sensorineural hearing loss: Evaluation and treatment of the pathology of the middle and inner ear in children-from the pediatrician and the ENT, January 2024, MITERA hospital

• Diagnosis of hearing loss in newborn and babies, 16-17 December 2023, Zappeio Hall

• Pediatric ENT: inflammations of children, pathology of the tonsils- adenoids

Προγραμμα μετακπαιδευτικων μαθηματων 2022-2024 in ENT of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Ippokrateio hospital

• Institute for Cochlear Implant Training “ ICIT- International Audiology Course” –Fall 2021

• Pre-implant assessment CHDEAF 2021, Masterclass in Diagnosis and Treatment of Hearing Loss in Children – 11/13 November 2021, Naples-Italy

• Functional brain mapping will transform pediatric CI

               14th European Symposium of Pediatric Cochlear Implantation,

• ctober 2019-Bucharest, Romania

• CI and beyond

Εgypt Cochlear 2018- 8/10 February 2018, Cairo-Egypt

• The Role of Co-Ordinator In the Assessment and Rehabilitation of Implanted Children

              Εgypt Cochlear 2018- 8/10 February 2018, Cairo-Egypt

• “The child with hoarseness”

19^th Panhellenic ENT-head and neck surgery, 2-5 November 2017,Athens

• ASSR in the diagnosis of hearing loss

2^nd  μεταπτυχιακο ENT congress-30 March 2012, Dimitsana

• Introduction to hearing science course, September 2014, Hippokrateio Hospital

• 14 th workshop on surgical εκτομων head and neck,”Evaggelismos” Hospital, March 2007 and 2009

Awards

1^st prize for best lecture at the 21th Panhellenic ENT congress, Athens 2022

Recent Publications

• Correlation of ASSR hearing threshold with ABR hearing thresholds in children. Vasileiou A., Maragoudakis P., Tsagaroulakis A., Xenelis I., Vlastarakos PV., Nikolopoulos TP., J Hear. Science, 2018; 8(3) : 35-39

• The value of ASSR threshold-based bilateral hearing aid fitting in children with difficult or unreliable behavioral audiometry. Vlastarakos PV, Vasileiou A, Nikolopoulos TP. ENT J. 2016

• THE VALUE OF ASSR THRESHOLD-BASED BILATERAL HEARING AID FITTING IN CHILDREN WITH DIFFICULT OR UNRELIABLE BEHAVIORAL AUDIOMETRY. Alexandra Vasileiou, Petros  Vlastarakos, Minas Artopoulos, Kostadinos Papakostas, Jacob Petmezakis, Thomas Nikolopoulos OT115 ESPO 2016 Lisbon

• ABR: Guidelines for Greece, Maroudias N., Vasileiou A., Greek ENT-Head and Neck Surgery, Greek Otology-Audiology-Neurotology, Volume 34, Issue 3, July- August- September 2013

• Program on Early detection and intervention, diagnosis and intervention of children hearing loss in a public university hospital, Halkiadakis V., Vasileiou A., Halidia E., Geramas J., Valaora E., Maragoudakis P., Nikolopoulos T., Greek ENT-Head and Neck Surgery, Greek Otology-Audiology-Neurotology, Volume 33, Issue 2, July- August- September 2013