Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vassilis Palapelas

Founder and Medical Director, Obstetrician-Gynaecologist

Assoc. Professor, Aristotle University

Trained in Erlangen, Germany

Team behind Germany’s first IVF baby

1981

Doctorate, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

1981–82

In the team behind Germany’s first IVF baby

1992

Founded the fertility centre in Thessaloniki

1992–

Lecturer, then Assistant and Associate Professor, Aristotle University Medical School

Associate Professor Vassilis Palapelas is an obstetrician-gynaecologist specialising in reproductive endocrinology, assisted reproduction and laparoscopic surgery.

Career

1975–1981Studied medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
1981Institute of Pathology at the same university (cytology, Pap smears).
1981Completed his doctoral thesis and received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
1981–1982Member of the university’s IVF team which achieved the birth of the first IVF baby in Germany, under Professors K. G. Ober and S. Trotnow.
1981–1988Trained as a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
1988–1990Further training at the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Clinic in IVF, laparoscopy, reproductive endocrinology, breast disease and cytology (Pap smears); licensed in cytology and mammography.
1992Elected Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, later Assistant and then Associate Professor.
1992Founded the IVF Centre in Thessaloniki.
1996Further training in ICSI at the University Women’s Hospital in Lübeck, Germany.
2009The IVF Centre moved to the new premises of Fertility Clinic.