Sympareotis Voukydis announces retirement

Our sympareotis Panos Voukydis (above) told the parea Saturday that after more than four decades in the practice of medicine, he decided to retire this coming May.

Dr. Voukydis was born in Karyes (Arahova) of Laconia, 1939, and grew up in Sparta. He said he still remembers the rhythmic step of the German patrols passing outside his house at night and the casualties of the Civil War that followed. (Below right, Panos in an Independence Day Celebration in his Sparta High School in 1953.)

Panos attended Medical School at the University of Athens and was a teaching assistant at the Department of Physiology. He graduated in 1962 and served in the Greek Army in 1963-5. He went to graduate school at Boston University from which he graduated in 1969 with a Ph.D. in Physiology. He did his medical training at the University of Manitoba, and McGill University in Canada in 1969-71. He received a cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital, and was an instructor at the Harvard Medical School. He was a junior staff cardiologist, Beth Israel and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals in 1973-76. He later became an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and was a staff cardiologist at Mount Auburn Hospital from 1976 to today. 

Panos is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. He has been in clinical office practice since 1973. (Left, Panos in the Greek Army Medical Corps. in 1965.)

 



The SB parea wishes him a long and happy retirement. (Right, Panos in medical school in Athens.)