PROFESSOR THEO KOFIDIS’ AWARDS
1992 Scholarship of the state of Bavaria.
2000 “Best Oral Presentation” Award by International Congress of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Onassis Heart Center, Athens, Greece.
2001 “Best Scientific Work” Award by European Transplant Society, Basel, Switzerland.
2002 The German Research Society Grant Award.
2004 The Rockefeller Brothers Fund/ Culpeper Bioscience Award, NY, USA.
2005 Funding Award of the Brauckmann Foundation, Hannover, Germany.
2006 The Lillehei – Caster Award of the European Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden.
2012 The Lifetime Achievement/ Contribution Award by the Hellenic Cardiology Society.
2015 The MOH Academic Medicine Development Award (AMDA) Award./The Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Without Examination.
2017 Award by the International Olympic Academy.
2018 Award by the Hellenic CT Surgery Society and the ISMICS – Winter Conference
2019 The NUS Medicine Special Recognition Award
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
- Developed the first Biomimicking, personalised heart valve in the world, currently in testing in the USA
- Developed a non-traumatic endoscopic camera for heart surgery
- Developed a disruptive, less traumatic, ergonomic Heart-Lung-Machine cannula
- Developed new surgical tools for heart surgery
- The first Ferrazzi LV-reshaping procedure in Singapore (Straits Times)