Head, 1st Dept Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Grigorios Grimbizis was born in Thessaloniki in 1960. He received his Medical Degree in 1984 and completed his doctoral dissertation in 1996 at the School of Medicine of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He was awarded the specialty title in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1993. In 1997, he pursued further training at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Human Reproduction and Endoscopic Surgery.
He was elected Lecturer in 2002, Assistant Professor in 2006, Associate Professor in 2011, and Professor in 2015. Since 2017, he has served as Director of the First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the School of Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He has authored a substantial body of scientific work, including more than 200 full-length publications in international journals and 20 chapters in international edited volumes. He is co-editor of the Springer volume Female Genital Tract Congenital Malformations: Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment, as well as four Greek scientific textbooks on endoscopic surgery. He has delivered more than 300 lectures and presentations at numerous international and Greek conferences.
He is Chair of the Board of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE), having previously served as ESGE President from 2018 to 2020. He also served as Vice-President of the Hellenic Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy from 2017 to 2019, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) from 2013 to 2017. He has also been a member of the Boards of the Hellenic Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Hellenic Society of Fertility and Sterility.
He has served as coordinator of ESHRE certification programmes, coordinator of ESGE guidelines, and member of the steering committee of the ESHRE certification programme in reproductive endoscopic surgery. He is the scientific coordinator of the joint ESHRE/ESGE working group on female genital tract anomalies, a member of the ESHRE/ESGE/WES joint working group on the surgical management of endometriosis, a member of the FIGO working group on the classification of adenomyosis, and a member of the international ESGE/ESHRE/ASRM/AAGL/WES group on the classification of endometriosis.
His main research interests focus on human reproduction and endoscopic surgery.
