Dr Dimitris G. Ioannidis was born in Volos, Magnesia.

He graduated with honors from the Medical School of University of Ioannina, Epirus in 2003.

During 2004 he was appointed Community Service Officer - compulsory postgraduate year of general practice - in Trikeri Public Surgery in the island of Trikeri.

He served his national service as medical officer in the Hellenic Army, in the 147 Artillery Battalion, in the island of Chios, in 2005.

From 2006 to 2011 he did his specialty training in General Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Volos General Hospital “Achillopoulion”, at Laiko General Hospital and at “Gennimata” General Hospital in Athens.

In 2011 he passed the board examination in Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in Greece.

He is currently a part-time research fellow at the University of Thessaly and is working on his PhD thesis with the title “Study of the role of microbial genetic material in the pathogenesis of nasal polyposis with the use of molecular techniques”.

He is member of the Panhellenic Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and the Hellenic Rhinologic Society.