Dimitrios Giannis, MD, MSc, PhD is a General Surgery resident at Flushing Hospital Medical Center in New York City. He graduated from medical school in Greece and did his General Surgery residency training at Hippocrates’ General Hospital of Thessaloniki between 2014 and 2018. He subsequently pursued advanced academic training, earning a Master’s degree in Molecular Medicine and a PhD in Critical Care from the University of Thessaly, graduating summa cum laude. Dr. Giannis completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, where he focused on clinical thrombosis and outcomes research and served as a co-investigator and executive committee member for the HEP-COVID randomized clinical trial. He continued his surgical residency training at Northwell Health and is currently completing residency at Flushing Hospital (MediSys). His main research interests include critical care, acute care surgery, minimally invasive surgery, trauma, gallbladder pathology, thromboembolic disease, and clinical outcomes research. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and actively serves as a reviewer for multiple journals.