Hormone doctor – Dr. Giannoulis

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A few words about us Private medical center

Men’s Hormone Therapy is a Private Health Clinic specializing in hormone replacement therapy in men run by Dr Giannoulis, a highly qualified Greek Endocrinologist, (hormone doctor). He has studied medicine in the university of Timisoara Romania where he graduated with an excellent grade before he started his fellowship in internal medicine in Thessaloniki, Greece. Shortly afterwards he joined the world famous department of endocrinology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, where he gained an unparalleled experience in dealing with a wide spectrum of endocrine diseases and his passion for the endocrinology was developed.

After a short spell in Thessaloniki Greece at Ippokrateion Hospital, he continued his training in endocrinology into the prestigious department of endocrinology –diabetes and internal medicine at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. Receiving a highly profile training in all fields of endocrinology he further developed his research and academic interests. He was appointed Lecturer and taught endocrinology in undergraduate and postgraduate students and he completed his medical research thesis MD in the University of London.

He worked in the development of the concept in a series of studies, regarding the hormone replacement treatment in healthy elderly men . As a result, he was awarded with substantial grants from the Trustees of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital and by creating a strong research team around him had shown that co-administration of growth hormone and testosterone in near physiological replacement doses, in carefully selected healthy men could confer clinical benefits with no serious adverse effects.

This was of great importance as it was the first placebo control study to check the combined hormone replacement treatment effect. Previous studies had shown that when each of these agents was tested separately the results produced more questions than answers. Furthermore, it was designed to test a near physiological replacement rather than a drug effect, therefore acquired clinical applicability. These results were met with great interest by the medical community and reignite the scientific debate of hormone replacement therapy in men.

He eventually decided to dedicate most of his time to private medicine and returned to Thessaloniki, Greece where he has established a busy private practice dealing with a wide spectrum of endocrine diseases. Recently, he has set up Men’s Hormone Therapy, a Private Medical Clinic specializing in hormone replacement therapy in men.

Aim and vision

As a hormone doctor specialist, always try to apply excellence and precision in my everyday clinical practice. I am considered an expertise in growth hormone & testosterone replacement therapy in elderly men. I gained this feature by formulating the scientific background in a series of studies as demonstrated above and scientifically supporting my findings through publications and in scientific panels.

Thus, I have decided to apply these evidence based medicine in a more systematic way in my clinical practice. While my main interests are thyroid disease, diabetes, pituitary adrenal and gonadal diseases I am focusing now on creating a state of –the- art clinic on hormone treatment in men.

Taking into consideration the inevitable decline in our quality of life and physical function while we are getting older and the importance of hormones to this, hormone replacement therapy has inevitably to be tried as a meaningful means of ameliorating our physical decline with age by physicians with strong background in this field.

Professional bodies The Greek Medical Association

And Societies The European Endocrine Society
The Endocrine Society
The Hellenic Endocrine Society

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1.  Hormone Replacement Therapy and Physical Function in Healthy Older Men. Time to Talk Hormones?
Manthos G. Giannoulis, Finbarr C. Martin, K. Sreekumaran Nair, A. Margot Umpleby, Peter Sonksen
Endocrine Reviews, Volume 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 314–377

2. The effects of growth hormone and/or testosterone on whole body protein kinetics and skeletal muscle gene expression in healthy elderly men: a randomized controlled trial.
Giannoulis MG, Jackson N, Shojaee-Moradie F, Nair KS, Sonksen PH, Martin FC, Umpleby AM.
2008 J Clin Endocrinol Metab 93:3066-74

3. Effects of growth hormone and/or testosterone on very low density lipoprotein apolipoprotein B100 kinetics and plasma lipids in healthy elderly men: a randomised controlled trial.
Giannoulis MG, Jackson N, Shojaee-Moradie F, Sonksen PH, Martin FC, Umpleby AM.
2006 Growth Horm IGF Res 16:308-17

4. Acute regulation of plasma leptin by isoprenaline in lean and obese fasted subjects.
Baynes KC, Nicholas MD, Shojaee-Moradie F, Umpleby AM, Giannoulis MG.
2006 Diabetes Obes Metab 8:412-8

5. The effects of growth hormone and/or testosterone in healthy elderly men: a randomized controlled trial.
Giannoulis MG, Sonksen PH, Umpleby M, Breen L, Pentecost C, Whyte M, McMillan CV, Bradley C, Martin FC.
2006 J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91:477-84

6. Gender differences in growth hormone response to exercise before and after rhGH administration and the effect of rhGH on the hormone profile of fit normal adults.
Giannoulis MG, Boroujerdi MA, Powrie J, Dall R, Napoli R, Ehrnborg C, Pentecost C, Cittadini A, Jorgensen JO, Sonksen PH GH-2000 Study Group.
2005 Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 62:315-22

7. Preliminary development of a new individualised questionnaire measuring quality of life in older men with age-related hormonal decline: the A-RHDQoL.
McMillan CV, Bradley C, Giannoulis M, Martin F, Sonksen PH. 2003 Health & Quality of Life Outcomes 1:51

8. A critical analysis of the value of simultaneous inferior petrosal sinus sampling in Cushing’s disease and the occult ectopic adrenocorticotropin syndrome.
Kaltsas GA, Giannoulis MG, Newell-Price JD, Dacie JE, Thakkar C, Afshar F, Monson JP, Grossman AB, Besser GM, Trainer PJ 1999 J Clin Endocrinol Metab 84:487-92

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