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Dr Georgios Panos

Dr Georgios Panos

Department of Ophthalmology, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dr. Georgios D. Panos is a Consultant Ophthalmologist with a special interest in Vitreoretinal Surgery and Medical Retina at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom and an Honorary Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology within the School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.

Dr. Panos graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2007 and received his Doctoral Degree in Medicine (Clinical Research in Medical Retina, Ophthalmology) from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2013. He did his residency training in Ophthalmology at the University Hospitals of Fribourg (Switzerland), Alexandroupolis (Greece), and Geneva (Switzerland) and received his Certificate of Completion of Training in Ophthalmology (Board Certification) in 2014. He has also received a Professional Certificate in Medical Statistics from the Stanford School of Medicine (CA, USA) in 2021 (one-year Professional Certificate Program). During the last six months of his residency training and after its completion, he worked as "Chef de Clinique" (Chief Resident – Junior Consultant) in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Neuro – Ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland for 27 months. In January 2015 he moved to the UK where he completed his fellowships in Medical Retina, Cataract Surgery and Vitreoretinal Surgery at the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, University of Cambridge, at Whipps Cross University Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust and at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

His teaching experience includes being a Tutor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland for two academic years (2012-13, 2013-14) lecturing the fifth-year medical students on various topics of ophthalmology, and being an invited Faculty Staff Member in the context of the Master Degree Program "Imaging in Ophthalmology" at the School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece from 2015–2019. He was responsible for the training of the ophthalmology trainees at the Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland, from October 2012 – December 2014, and has actively participated in the clinical and surgical training of the ophthalmology trainees and fellows in the U.K. since 2015. He was appointed Honorary Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology within the School of Medicine, University of Nottingham in March 2023.

Dr. Panos serves on the editorial and advisory boards of five prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals, is a regular reviewer for several journals, and is a full member of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

His research is mainly focused on ocular pharmacology, retinal diseases, vitreoretinal and cataract surgery, and ophthalmic imaging. His PubMed publication list can be found here.

Updated 28 November 2023