Profile · Career · Commitment
Dr Evangelos Panagiotakos
Anaesthesiologist · Interventional pain management
Professional background, clinical experience and attention to the human dimension of pain.
PONOS Clinic · Turin
Clinical profile
Evangelos Panagiotakos is a specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care with specialist expertise in interventional pain management. He leads PONOS Clinic in Turin and focuses on complex and refractory chronic pain, with particular attention to craniofacial and neuropathic pain.
The clinical approach is based on diagnostic assessment and the targeted use of procedures within individual care pathways.
- Diagnosis before treatment.
- Procedures only when indicated.
- No automatic treatment decisions.
- Radiofrequency as one component of care.
Professional background
Training and clinical practice
Medical training
A degree in Medicine and Surgery and specialist training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Turin, followed by advanced postgraduate training in Pain Management at the University of Parma.
His experience in anaesthesia and intensive care has progressively focused on the diagnosis and interventional treatment of pain.
Practice at PONOS Clinic
His clinical practice in Turin focuses on complex and refractory chronic pain through specialist assessment, ultrasound- or fluoroscopy-guided procedures and multidisciplinary collaboration when indicated.
The clinic also welcomes patients travelling from other regions.
Meet the PONOS teamCooperation · Culture · Humanities
Medicine and culture
Cameroon · Experience in the field
In October 2002, Evangelos Panagiotakos worked in Cameroon at Richard Pettieu’s hospital in the Nkongsamba area.
This experience in international healthcare forms part of his medical and personal journey.
Progetto Melissa
In 2002, he helped found Progetto Melissa, an association that is no longer active. It was established to support travel from Cameroon to Turin for children with serious medical conditions and their families, enabling access to surgery.
The support also included children with severe consequences of rickets.
Joanna Bourke · The Story of Pain
Pain in the dialogue between medicine and the humanities
In 2015, at Joanna Bourke’s invitation, Evangelos Panagiotakos took part in the presentation of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers at the Onassis Foundation’s Stegi in Athens.
The event brought together medical, historical, psychological, artistic and social perspectives on the experience of pain. The recording includes the speakers’ contributions, including that of Evangelos Panagiotakos.
Watch the event recording ↗Scientific activity and publications
Research, bibliographical references, conferences, talks and teaching.
Explore scientific activityClinical cases
The initial problem, clinical reasoning, treatment choice and outcomes observed over time.
Explore the clinical casesInterventional procedures
Ultrasound- or fluoroscopy-guided procedures considered after a comprehensive clinical assessment.
Craniofacial pain
Low back pain
Joint pain
Peripheral neuropathic pain
The relationship with the person
Foundations of my clinical approach
A commitment to appropriate care
Medicine is not a promise of results. It means using the available resources competently, diligently and proportionately to the individual case. Miraculous promises and guaranteed outcomes have no place in scientific medicine.
Diagnosis precedes the procedure
Diagnosis is a clinical act. Investigations help confirm or exclude hypotheses, but do not replace clinical reasoning. Every recommendation for an interventional procedure follows a rigorous diagnostic assessment.
Pain is an experience
Pain is subjective. The doctor listens, interprets and develops hypotheses consistent with the person’s account. The therapeutic relationship also rests on this principle.
The therapeutic alliance
The aim is to establish an appropriate indication. A procedure is one possible outcome of clinical assessment: this is the basis of the alliance between patient and doctor.
His dedicated work in craniofacial and neuropathic pain has developed since 2012, with the progressive integration of radiofrequency and neuromodulation. This is an approach in which clinical experience and reflection on the humanities advance together.
Rigour is not rigidity. Ethics is more than a word.
I cannot accept oversimplification when discussing pain, responsibility and choices.