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General Surgeon
Panagiotis N. Skandalakis was born and raised in Laconia. He studied Medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in Surgery and Vascular Surgery at the Universities of Athens, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Atlanta, USA.
In 1981 he was awarded a doctorate from the Medical School of the University of Athens. He is a Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Technique (Clinician) at Emory University, Atlanta, USA and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Athens Medical School.
He was an Attending Surgeon at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam and Director of Surgery at the Asklepieion Hospital of Voula. In 1989 he was elected for the first time as a Member of Parliament. Since then he was re-elected in the June 1989, October 1989, 1990, 1996 and 2000 elections with the New Democracy Party.
During the period 1982-1996 he served as a member of the Local Government. He is the secretary of the Hellenic Expatriate Committee of the New Democracy Party, First Vice-Chairman of the Special Standing Committee on Hellenes
Abroad of the Hellenic Parliament, Member of the Special Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs, Member of the Special Standing Committee on European Affairs, Chairman of the Friendship Group with the
Parliament of Slovenia and Member of the Friendship Group with the US Parliament. He served as Vice President of the North Atlantic Parliamentary Assembly (NATO), Chief of the Greek
UN Inter-party Committee on National Issues, Secretary of the Bureau of the Parliament, President of the Economic and Social Council of Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council of Greece in Health and Welfare.
He is the author of several scientific books, many of which have been translated into more than 10 languages of the world and has published several papers abroad.
He has been honored, both in Greece and abroad, for his contribution to the medical field, for his fight against drugs, for his contribution to foreign policy and for his work in the field of Hellenism Abroad. He speaks English and Italian. He has three sons, Nikos, George and Dimitris.
