In December 1997 I was accepted to study Medicine at King's College Medical School.
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| I suppose that since you are here you already know who I am, but perhaps you would like to learn some more about me. Here it goes... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I was born in the city of Athens, at the suburb of Cholargos on Wednesday the 11th of April 1979 at 14:50 in the afternoon. My mother is from Laconia the area around the ancient city of Sparta and my father even though born in Athens traces his ancestry to the Ionian island of Cephalonia since both his parents were born there. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As the Greek tradition goes, since I was the first-born male of my family I was given the name of my father's father and thus aquired a most typical Cephalonian name and surname. My grandfather died a few months after my birth and even though I cannot remember him holding me, I sometimes feel we have met and that I know him very well. My grandmother and mother often say that we share the same manerisms and a picture of him taken in 1900 shows a suprising resemblance between us. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Being raised in the leafy north-east part of Athens and following another family tradition, my brother and I became keen supporters of the Panathinaikos Athletic Club. This trend started from my father (the other half of my family supports the petty club of Apollo Athens) and since PAO is the primary club of North Athens it was not hard for me to identify with it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Like most Greeks and even more so my parents paid great attention to their children's education. I was placed at an English Kindergarten at the age of 5 and even before that had many English-speaking nannies (Welsh and Canadian). I started guitar lessons at 8 and German at 10 and finished the 6th Experimental Grammar School of Chalandri and the 7th Public Gymnasium of Chalandri. After a year at the Lyceum of Paleo Psychiko I joined the private Moraitis School to do the 2 year International Baccalaureate course in order to study abroad. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Having passed my IB exams scoring 41/45 points (C:6/B:6/G:7/P:7/E:7/M:5 +3) and already having two diplomas in English and two in German I came to England to work at local hospitals to further strengthen my CV. I had already completed one and a half year of work at the Athens Childrens' Hospital but my experience in the UK was very different. I worked for a short period at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and for a larger period of 8 months at the Harris Birthright Research Centre of Fetal Medicine at King's College Hospital under Professor Kypros Nicolaides. In December 1997 I was accepted to study Medicine at King's College Medical School. |
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| The Guys' Kings' & St Thomas Medical School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||