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## Meet the editors

Dr. Dimitrios D. Nikolopoulos, MD, Ph.D., is a sports medicine-specialized orthopedic surgeon and arthroscopist. He focuses on sports injuries, mainly in the shoulder, hip, knee, foot, and ankle pathology. He has performed arthroscopic restoration of hip, knee, and ankle cartilage, as well as treatment and surgical correction of foot disorders. He has published forty-five original scientific articles on the knee (valgus knee) and

shoulder surgery (arthroscopic and minimally invasive new techniques), osteoporotic spine and hip fractures, and research into the in vitro environment of bone and cartilage metabolism in prestigious scientific journals in the United States, Europe, and Greece. Dr. Nikolopoulos has more than 240 citations in research projects on the valgus knee and cartilage ankle restoration. He has also presented more than 200 oral and poster presentations internationally.

Dr. George K. Safos, MD, specializes in orthopaedic surgery and traumatology with an interest in sports medicine (knee, hip, ankle, elbow, and shoulder arthroscopic surgery) as well as total hip and knee replacement surgery. As a well-published doctor, he now serves as a medical orthopaedic consultant and primary doctor to various athletic teams, and dance groups, as well as for foreign diplomatic missions. He is a graduate of

Athens University Medical School and completed his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the General Hospital of Asklepeion Voulas, Greece. He then completed two fellowships in the United States at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Maryland, and the University of Miami Orthopaedics Department. Thereafter, Dr. Safos completed a post-graduate degree in Tissue Banking at the National University of Singapore with a United Nations scholarship.

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*by Mohammed Hegazy*

