About
Dr Christos Nikolaou graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005. After graduation, he completed an internship in small animal surgery at the same university and at Fitzpatrick Referrals. At Fitzpatrick Referrals, he continued as a research fellow for six months before returning to Greece to lead his own orthopaedic referral service in Athens.
In 2015, he returned to Fitzpatrick Referrals and worked as a manager while receiving advanced training for three years. From 2018 to 2021, he founded and led peripatetic orthopaedic services for a group of primary care veterinary practices. Between 2022 and 2024, Christos was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Surrey.
Since 2021, Christos has been working at Fitzpatrick Referrals as an orthopaedic surgeon, alongside seeing some cases in host veterinary practices around Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex and London. He is enrolled in a BSc in STEM (Engineering and Mathematics) with the Open University and obtained a Certificate in Higher Education in STEM (Engineering and Mathematics) from the same university following completion of the first year of his BSc studies.
His clinical area of interest is stifle disease and traumatology. Christos’ main research interest is to navigate through everyday orthopaedic clinical problems using mechanical principles and engineering models. He also helps researchers with their study designs, statistics and interpretation of their results. He has published several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a manuscript reviewer for the Veterinary Record.
