 Upon his return he was placed at the Renal Unit of the Regional State Hospital "Agios Andreas" in Patras, where he still works as Head of the Department today.In 1986 he became an associate professor at the University of Athens, and in 1996 he graduated in Archaeology from the University of Ioannina.During the same year he went to London where he conducted research on the history of medicine at the Welcome Institute for the History of Medicine.