7.2010: Granted the title of Specialist in Cardiology after succeeding the national Cardiology examinations in Thessaloniki – Greece with honors.

 21.01.2008-11.05.2010: Training in Cardiology as a trainee doctor at the cardiology Department of Nicosia General Hospital in Cyprus.

Training in novel echocardiographic techniques in Onassis Cardiac Center – Athens, Greece

20.09.2006-20.01.2008: Training in Cardiology as a trainee doctor at the cardiology Department of Limassol General Hospital in Cyprus.

20.9.2004 – 19.9.2006: Training in Internal medicine as a trainee doctor at the Internal Medicine Department of Limassol General Hospital (Cyprus).

Training in Carotid Tripplex in Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv-Israel.

19.8.2002-18.8.2003: Pre-registration in internal medicine (6 months) and General Surgery (6 months) in Limassol General Hospital.

2003: Member of the Cypriot Medical Council (Registration No: 03802)

1996-2002 : Graduated from the Medical School of Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki – Greece.  Scholarship by the Scholarship State Foundation of Cyprus.

Courses-Training-Participation

Advanced Life Support of the European Rescucitation Council.

Participated as a co-ordinator in a survey of the Open University of Cyprus regarding the compliance of doctors with the current European and AHA Guidelines on several issues.

Training in Carotid Artery Tripplex in Tel-Hashomer Tel- Aviv.

Trained in the new trends of echocardiography in Onassis Cardiac Center (Athens-Greece), including Transesophageal Echocardiography, Coronary Flow Reserve, Tissue Doppler Imaging and Strain, as well as Stress Echocardiography.

Trained in contrast perfusion (stress echocardiography) in Royal Brompton Hospital – London.

Member of the humanitarian organization “Medicines Du Monde – Cyprus”, head of the mission to aid the people of Sri Lanka after the tsunami disaster in 2004, and in Kashmir- Pakistan after the earthquake disaster in 2005. Head of the aid mission in refugee camps in Chios (Greece) and Eidomeni (Greece) in 2016.

Co-ordinator and cardiologist of the “Medical Office of the poor” in Cyprus, an office set by the volunteer doctor of Cyprus to give free medical advice and treatment to the poor.

Emergency First Response Instructor

Presentations

Erakleous, M. Symeonides, E. Vounou, P.Christodoulides, G. Papageorgiou, C. Makrides, P. Evripidou, M. Ioannides, C. Anastasiades. Fasting effect on lipids. Abstract was presented as a poster at the 10th Panhellenic Convention of Internal Medicine in Athens, 2004.

E.Vounou, C. Makrides, P. Christodoulides, M. Koukouvas, M. Symeonidis, A. Kizi, E. Erakleous, P. Evripidou, M. Stavroulaki, M. Ioannides. Autoimmune haemolytic anemia as a result of cold immunoglobulin formation due to infectious mononucleosis. Abstract was presented as a poster at the 31st Panhellenic Medical Convention in Athens, 2005.

Symeonides, M. Koukouvas, C. Makrides, G. Papageorgiou, M. Michaelidou, E. Erakleous, M. Stavroulaki, M. Ioannides. Diagnosis of Crohn’s disease in a patient with fever of unknown origin using video capsule endoscopy. Abstract was presented as a poster at the 31st Panhellenic Medical Convention in Athens, 2005.

 Makrides et al. Department of Internal Medicine, Limassol General Hospital Acute pancreatitis following methomyl intoxication . Methomyl-induced severe acute pancreatitis: possible etiological association. Journal Of Pancreas 2005 Mar 10;6 (2):166 -71.

 C.Makrides, C.Anastasiades, M.Ioannides, G.Georgiou, M..Minas. Prevalence of carotid artery disease in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease. Abstract was presented as a poster at the 29^th Panhellenic Cardiological Congress in Athens, 2008.

 C.Makrides. Pulmonary emboli due to pacemaker attached non bacterial thrombotic endocarditis. ECHO. The Journal of the British Society of Echocardiography, Issue 76, January 2012

 C.Makrides. Transient ST elevation in vagally mediated atrial fibrillation. Journal of Atrial Fibrillation Vol 2 Issue 11, June 2012

Andreou AY, Theodorou S, Makrides C, Avraamides PC.  Twin left circumflex arteries in a patient undergoing aortic valve replacement.

Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2014 Jan;18(1):71-3.

Papadopoulos. Makrides C. E. Eleftheriou . A cardiac haemangioma: the contribution of myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis

BMJ Case Reports 2015; doi:10.1136/bcr-2015-210075

Constantinos M. Type II myocardial infarction and latent LVOT obstruction due to Systolic Anterior Motion of mitral valve. Arch Case Rep. 2019; 3: 017-020.
doi: 10.29328/journal.acr.1001015