Mr Prokopios Annis

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Spire Liverpool Hospital (present)
• Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Spire Murrayfield Hospital, Wirral (present)
• Consultant Spine Surgeon, The Walton Centre Foundation Trust (2019 - present)
• Consultant Spine Surgeon - Adult Spinal Deformity Lead, Liverpool University Hospitals (2014 - present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Adult spinal deformity
•  Sciatica
• Spinal injection
•  Back pain and neck pain
• Arm pain
• Lumbar spinal stenosis
• Degenerative spinal conditions
• Microdiscectomy
• Lumbar decompression and fusion
• Lumbar disc herniation (slipped disc)
• Cauda equina syndrome (CES)
• Coccydynia
• Cervical myelopathy
• Cervical disc herniation
• Kyphoplasty
• Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF)
• Spinal injections
• Complex spinal surgery
• Scoliosis surgery

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 Positions in public associations

• Reviewer for Global Spine Journal
• Reviewer for Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders Journal
• Reviewer for the Journal of Medical Case Reports

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 Teaching posts

• Physician Educator, Honorary Contract, University of Utah (2014 - present)

 Education

• Clinical Spine Clinical Fellowship (2013 - 2015)
• Clinical Research Spine Fellowship, University of Utah (2011 - 2013)
• Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Asclepieion Hospital (2006)
• ​Medical Degree, Universita degli Studi G d Annunzio, Italy (2000)

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 Publications and conferences

• View Mr Annis' publications and research on ResearchGate
• The Fate of L5-S1 With Low-Dose BMP-2 and Pelvic Fixation, With or Without Interbody Fusion, in Adult Deformity Surgery. Annis P, Brodke DS, Spiker WR, Daubs MD, Lawrence BD. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2015 Jun 1;40(11):E634-9.
• Predictive factors for acute proximal junctional failure after adult deformity surgery with upper instrumented vertebrae in the thoracolumbar spine. Annis P, Lawrence BD, Spiker WR, Zhang Y, Chen W, Daubs MD, Brodke DS. Evid Based Spine Care J. 2014 Oct;5(2):160-2.
• Reoperation and revision rates of 3 surgical treatment methods for lumbar stenosis associated with degenerative scoliosis and spondylolisthesis. Brodke DS, Annis P, Lawrence BD, Woodbury AM, Daubs MD. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013 Dec 15;38(26):2287-94.
• Early proximal junctional failure in patients with preoperative sagittal imbalance. Smith MW, Annis P, Lawrence BD, Daubs MD, Brodke DS.Evid Based Spine Care J. 2013 Oct;4(2):163-4.
• Scoliosis research society-22 results in 3052 healthy adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. Daubs MD, Hung M, Neese A, Hon SD, Lawrence BD, Patel AA, Annis P, Smith J, Brodke DS. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2014 May 1;39(10):826-32.
• The impact of the lordosis distribution index on failure after surgical treatment of adult spinal deformity. Tobert DG, Davis BJ, Annis P, Spiker WR, Lawrence BD, Brodke DS, Spina N. Spine J. 2020 Aug;20(8):1261-1266.
• Acute proximal junctional failure in patients with preoperative sagittal imbalance. Smith MW, Annis P, Lawrence BD, Daubs MD, Brodke DS. Spine J. 2015 Oct 1;15(10):2142-8. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2015.05.028. Epub 2015 May 22.
• Perioperative Complications of Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy. Daubs MD, Brodke DS, Annis P, Lawrence BD. Global Spine J. 2016 Nov;6(7):630-635. doi: 10.1055/s-0035-1570088. Epub 2015 Dec 15.
• Perioperative Effects Associated With the Surgical Treatment of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: Interbody Versus No Interbody. Colman MW, Baronne LM 2nd, Brodke DS, Woodbury AM, Annis P, Lawrence BD. Clin Spine Surg. 2019 Mar;32(2):E71-E77.
• A new classification for coronal malalignment in adult spinal deformity: a validation and the role of lateral bending radiographs. June 2020European Spine Journal 29(Suppl 1)

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 Prizes and awards

• Best Clinical Study Award at the 13th Annual AO Spine North America Fellows Forum (2015)
• Awarded “Best Podium Presentations Award” at the 2013 Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), Chicago.
• Best Clinical Study Award at  the 11th Annual AO Spine North America Fellows Forum (2013)
• Winner of the Russell A. Hibbs Award at the 47th Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) Meeting, Chicago, USA (2012)

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 Professional membership

• British Association of Spinal Surgeons (BASS)
• British Scoliosis Society (BSS)
• British Medical Association (BMA)
• Eurospine
• AO Spine North America ​
• North American Spine Society
• Hellenic Spine Society
• Hellenic Society of Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeons (EEXOT)

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