Vassilis Pitsinis is a consultant breast surgeon in NHS Tayside (Ninewells Hospital and Medical School) with an interest in Oncoplastic Surgery. He is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Dundee Medical School.
Following his graduation from medical School in 2000 he completed his MD thesis in experimental surgery in the University of Athens medical School in 2004. His surgical training took place in London and in East Anglia as well as in the University hospitals in Athens and Strasbourg's Louis Pasteur University. He has completed a breast surgical fellowship in Cambridge and in Paris.
He has been involved in modernizing and streamlining the breast diagnostic and surgical service in his home country and led a major project to secure funding, build, set up and operate the Cambridge Breast Clinic in Athens, a purpose-built diagnostic and therapeutic facility founded in 2010 in the largest maternity hospital on the country. His current research into breast cancer is focused on in a novel technique of replacing radioisotope and blue dye with fluorescence as localization for sentinel lymph node biopsy in early breast cancer. He has been elected as a Tayside Academic Health Science Partnership Clinical Fellow .
He is the chief investigator of the INFLUENCE trial Indocyanine green Node FLUorEsceNCE Study

A prospective observational study comparing indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence combined with a standard tracer versus ICG alone for sentinel lymph (SLN) detection in early breast cancer.

The primary objective of this study is to determine the sensitivity of ICG fluorescence imaging alone for SLN identification compared with a combination of ICG and a standard tracer (either blue dye or radioisotope).