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Marios Zenon Panos is a British-Cypriot gastroenterologist, hepatologist, clinical professor, and medical researcher. His career has included hospital medicine and academic work in the United Kingdom, leadership of gastroenterology at Athens Euroclinic, and clinical teaching and practice in Cyprus. His research has addressed gastrointestinal endoscopy, colonoscopy, and Helicobacter pylori diagnosis.
Background
Marios Zenon Panos was born on November 21, 1954, in Nicosia, Cyprus, and is the son of Zenon George Panos. He moved to England in 1968 and later relocated to Greece in 1998, pursuing a medical career that connected Cyprus, the United Kingdom, and Greece.
His professional identity has remained associated with gastroenterology and hepatology, fields concerned with diseases of the digestive system and liver. His later work also brought him back to Cyprus through clinical practice and medical education.
Education
Panos studied physiology and medicine at the University of London. He completed a Bachelor of Science with honors in physiology in 1976, a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1981, and a Doctor of Medicine in 1990. The University of London, established in 1836, provided a federated framework for higher education and medical training in Britain, while its medical schools were closely connected with the clinical institutions of London.
His medical doctorate was associated with the Institute of Liver Studies at King's College Hospital, where he undertook research fellowship training from 1986 to 1990. The institute was an important British center for hepatology and liver medicine, linking specialist clinical care with academic research.
Career
Panos began his hospital career at Middlesex Hospital in London, serving as a house physician and senior house officer between 1981 and 1983. He also worked as a senior house officer in oncology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge during 1983. Middlesex Hospital was a major London teaching hospital, while Addenbrooke's was a leading Cambridge teaching institution with a broad clinical and research role.
He became a registrar in medicine at St. Stephen's Hospital in London from 1983 to 1986, an institution later incorporated into Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. From 1986 to 1990, he was a research fellow and honorary registrar at the Institute of Liver Studies at King's College Hospital, developing his specialist interest in gastroenterology and hepatology.
From 1990 to 1994, Panos served as a lecturer in medicine and honorary senior registrar at the University of Birmingham. The university was one of Britain's major civic universities and had an established tradition of medical education and clinical research. He then worked as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading from 1994 to 1998.
In 1998, Panos moved to Athens and became a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist and director of gastroenterology and hepatology at Euroclinic of Athens. He helped establish the department and organized international medical meetings and postgraduate seminars that connected Greek gastroenterologists and surgeons with specialists from the United Kingdom and the wider Hellenic medical diaspora. Euroclinic of Athens is a private hospital providing specialist and diagnostic medical services.
From 2015, Panos joined the University of Nicosia Medical School as a Clinical Professor of Gastroenterology and became involved in teaching physiology and clinical medicine. The University of Nicosia is a private university in Cyprus with a medical school offering undergraduate and postgraduate health education. He has also practiced as a consultant gastroenterologist at Apollonio Hospital in Nicosia.
Panos organized international gastroenterology and hepatology update meetings and postgraduate seminars in Athens between 1999 and 2007, bringing together specialists from the United Kingdom, Greece, and other countries for professional education and clinical exchange.
His research has addressed quality in gastrointestinal endoscopy, adenoma detection, polyp resection methods, argon plasma coagulation, colonoscopy, and diagnostic testing for Helicobacter pylori.
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Membership
Panos has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, and a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He has also been associated with the European Board of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. These organizations support standards, education, specialist training, and professional exchange in internal medicine and gastroenterology.
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American Gastroenterological Association
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United States
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British Society of Gastroenterology
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United Kingdom
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European Board of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
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Interests
Gastrointestinal endoscopy, medical education, and postgraduate medical meetings.
Connections
Panos is married to Rena Constantine Rouvitha. His father was Zenon George Panos.
