Executive Team
Dr Con Phatouros, President
Dr Con Phatouros was elected President of ANZSNR in March 2019 having served two successive terms as WA Branch councillor.
Con is a medical graduate of the University of Western Australia. After specialising in Radiology, he developed his interest in Neuroradiology while working with Dr Trevor ApSimon & Prof’s Mark Khangure & Turab Chakera in the Interventional Neuroradiology Unit in Perth, Western Australia. Following this, he spent 18 months in the United Kingdom subspecialising in Diagnostic & Interventional Neuroradiology working at The Royal Free Hospital, The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square London and Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham. This was followed by a 2-year fellowship in Interventional Neuroradiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He returned to Perth in 2000 as a Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiologist at Royal Perth Hospital.
Con was the inaugural Head of Department of the Neurological Intervention & Imaging Service of WA (NIISwa) upon its formal establishment by the WA Health Department in 2007. NIISwa is a state cross-campus service and the only stand-alone Neuroradiology Department in Australasia. He was subsequently appointed Medical Co-Director of the Division of Neurosciences at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital for a term of three years. Con is currently NIISwa HOD, a Member of the Board of Authority for WA Health Hospital Support Services (HSS) and Vice President of the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (ASMOF) WA branch. Con has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific items including several book chapters.
Dr Steve Chryssidis, Secretary General
Dr Steve Chryssidis graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1995 and later went on to complete Specialist Radiology training in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Upon completion of his training, he was awarded Fellowship to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (FRANZCR) in 2005.
In 2004, Dr Chryssidis undertook an MRI Fellowship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital followed by an Interventional Neuroradiology Fellowship at Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW in 2006.
Dr Chryssidis has worked in public and private practice since 2005. He specialises in Interventional Neuroradiology and Interventional Radiology, Head and Neck Radiology, Diagnostic Neuroradiology, Spine Interventions and minimally invasive therapies.
Prof. Peter Mitchell, Past President
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists, Immediate Past President of the ANZSNR. He is a practicing Neuro-interventional Radiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he is currently the Head of the Neuro-Intervention Service, Head of the Victorian Statewide Endovascular Clot Retrieval Service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
After completing his Radiology training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he undertook a Neuroradiology Fellowship post at the Oregon Health Sciences University in the United States of America. Other appointments have included visiting professor at the UCSF in Neuroradiology and Neurointervention, and Honorary Consultant Radiologist (Neurointervention) at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
He was co-Principal investigator on EXTEND IA, EXTEND IA TNK, EXTEND IA TNK(2); Australian Principal Investigator (neurointervention) for the DAWN trial; Investigator on trials involving stroke and aneurysms including IMS3, ICSS, CAVATAS, PLASMIN, MAPS.
Current trial involvement includes co-Principal investigator with Prof B Yan on the DIRECT SAFE study of direct endovascular thrombectomy without thrombolysis, and Principal Investigator and neurointerventionist on the Stentrode with a Controlled Digital Switch - a world first in the human clinical trial of an implantable brain-computer interface designed to help Australians with upper limb paralysis restore functional independence.
Author of over 200 scientific articles, supervisor to multiple radiology registrars and Interventional Radiology and Neurointerventional Radiology fellows, international keynote speaker, and neurointervention workshop instructor.
Member of: RANZCR, WFITN, SNIS, ASNR, SSA, ECR reperfusion and monitoring committee (Victoria), Foundation member ECR working group for Victoria, SSA living guidelines.
