OPHTHALMOLOGIST XANTHI

A few words about Surgeon - Ophthalmologist Kalouda G. Pelagia

The doctor was born in Xanthi. She graduated from the 2nd High School of Xanthi, in 2003, achieving the highest level of access to Higher Education in Xanthi (awarded an honorary plaque by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. Stephanopoulos). Afterwards, she was admitted to the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she graduated in 2009.

She completed with honors the two-year Master's Program "Optics and Vision" of the School of Medicine of the University of Crete in 2011, while in 2012 she served as a rural doctor in the Artificial Kidney Unit of General Hospital of Xanthi and at the Health Center of Stavroupolis Xanthi.

In addition, she specialized in Ophthalmology, at the Ophthalmology Clinic of the General Hospital of Thessaloniki "Ippokrateio" (2014-2018).

From 2013 to 2018 she was a clinical researcher at the Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LaRCAO), of the First Ophthalmology Clinic of the AHEPA Hospital of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Medicine of the AUTH supervised by Professor of Ophthalmology Fotis Topouzis.

She worked as a Surgeon - Ophthalmologist with a full-time salaried position for 1 year (10/2018-10/2019) at the One Day Clinic of Mavroudis Leonidas (LMVision), in Thessaloniki, with clinical, surgical and research work. From August 2021, she maintains a private ophthalmology office in the center of Xanthi, at 22 Tsimiski Street.

She has participated in a multitude of voluntary preventive eye examinations in Thessaloniki, Veroia, but also in villages in Crete through the Ophthalmology team of the University Hospital of Heraklion, headed by Professor of Ophthalmology Ioannis Pallikaris.

She has also participated as a researcher in large clinical studies and as a speaker at numerous conferences in Greece and abroad. At the same time, she has published scientific papers in Greek and international ophthalmological journals, while she has also participated in the writing of international scientific books.

She holds the European Diploma in Ophthalmology (FEBOphth) after written and oral exams and is a member of the Ophthalmological Society of Northern Greece and the European Society of Intraocular and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS), from which she has also received a scholarship as a trainee member with a high score of accepted presentations.