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A Transformative Development in Charlotte’s Innovation District
Recent Queens University graduate Dionisios Vrochides, M.D., Ph.D., MBA ’23, is no stranger to bold career moves. A renowned transplant and hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgeon, with long involvement in minimally invasive surgery techniques, Vrochides is embarking on a new chapter that promises to transform not just his own career, but the landscape of health care innovation in Charlote.
Prior to Queens, Vrochides earned his doctoral degrees in medicine and philosophy from The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. He completed his surgical residency at Brown University Program in Medicine, in Providence, Rhode Island, and his transplant and HPB surgery fellowship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
A professor of surgery, serving as chief of Atrium Health’s transplant oncology section and vice chair of the department of surgery since 2015, Vrochides has also been named executive director of IRCAD North America (IRCAD NA), a global hub for medical research, development and experiential surgical training.
IRCAD is an acronym for “Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l’Appareil Digestif,” which is French for “Institute for Research into Cancer of the Digestive System.” Founded in France in 1994, IRCAD has six training centers in five countries, with three additional centers scheduled to come online soon, including IRCAD NA.
Nestled in the heart of Charlote’s innovation district known as The Pearl, IRCAD NA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atrium Health, is poised to be IRCAD’s exclusive U.S. destination for surgical education, atracting thousands of top surgeons and their teams to the Queen City. The area is designed to diversify the local and regional economy, atract new businesses and drive new job creation.
Vrochides envisions a vibrant learning environment at IRCAD NA where clinicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors converge to create tangible solutions that will improve surgical outcomes and deliver beter, safer patient care.
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