Profile
Dr Kalkinis Antonios - Dimosthenis was born in Athens and studied medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki University where he graduated in 2009 (MD). Doctor of Philosophy Degree was acquired with the General Grade: “Excellent” from the Medical Faculty of the University of Ioannina in 2014 (PhD).
He served in the army for one year as a Medical Doctor at 251 Hellenic Air Force General Hospital (General Internal Medicine practice). He also served as Community Doctor at Naxos Health Centre (Rural GP).
He has trained partly in Greece and the UK at the ROYAL FREE LONDON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST in London.
Current Position
Dr Kalkinis Antonios - Dimosthenis is a consultant nuclear medicine physician with interest in oncological and non-oncological aspects of PET-CT and in haematology and lung cancer applications of PET-CT.
Published Work
Dr A. Kalkinis has authored a number of medical articles in Greek and International scientific journals.
Indicative publications:
- Contribution of Positron Emission Tomography- Computed Tomography (PET/CT) to the Diagnosis of Endocarditis Due to an Infected Pacemaker Associated With Spondylodiscitis. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.43140
- Severe Gastritis Due to Nivolumab Treatment of a Metastatic Melanoma Patient Diagnostics (Basel) 2022 Nov 18;12(11):2864. doi: 10.3390 diagnostics12112864.
- Time-related aortic inflammatory response, as assessed with 18F-FDG PET/CT, in patients hospitalized with severely or critical COVID-19: the COVAIR study J Nucl Cardiol. 2022 May 2 : 1–9. doi: 10.1007/s12350-022-02962-1
- Adenosine stress myocardial perfusion imaging in octogenarians: Safety, tolerability, and long- term prognostic implications of hemodynamic response and SPECT-related variables J Nucl Cardiol. 2019 Feb;26(1):250-262. doi:10.1007/s12350-017-0893-0
- Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Response to Recombinant Human Thyrotropin Stimulation for Thyroid Remnant Ablation in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Biomed J Sci & Tech Res 20(4)-2019. BJSTR.MS.ID.003488. doi: 10.26717/BJSTR.2019.20.003487
- Physiological distribution and range of normal SUVmax values of 18F-Choline PET/CT Iran J Nucl Med 2016;24(1):65-68
Contact
Telephone: +30 210 480 9000
1rst email address: antkalk@gmail.com
2nd email address: akalkinis@metropolitan- hospital.gr