Petros Sountoulides MD, PhD, FEBU was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1972. He graduated from the Anatolia American College of Thessaloniki in 1990 and received his Medical Degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1996. In 2005 he completed his residency training and qualified as an Urologist in Greece. The same year he was also named a Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU) after successfully passing the EBU examinations. During 2006 he served as a staff member of the Urology Department at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis in Greece.
In 2007 he received a scholarship grant from the European Association of Urology (EAU) and spend a 3-month Clinical Fellowship in Endourology at the Urology Department of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Since August 2008 and for 1 year he continued his training in Endourology, laparoscopic and robotic urologic surgery in the USA. He was able to secure a Research Endourology Fellowship position at the Urology Department of the University of California Irvine (UCI). This 1-year fellowship on Endourology under the tutelage of Pr.Clayman, a world known leader in the field of Endourology, is sponsored by a generous grant from Boston Scientific.
In May 2010 he presented his dissertation (PhD thesis) at University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece. His PhD research focuses on the contribution of the surgical management of subclinical varicocele to the restoration of male fertility.
He has worked as Consultant Urologist at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in Manchester U.K from March 2016 to March 2018.
P.S was elected as Assistant Professor of Urology at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece in 2018. His current position is at the 1st Urology Department of Urology at "G.Gennimatas" General Hospital.  
P.S has served as reviewer for a number of peer reviewed medical journals. He is also a member of the International Editorial Board of the journal "Archivos Espanioles de Urologia". P.S is an active member of the Hellenic Urological Association, the European Association of Urology (EAU) and the American Urological Association (AUA) and the International Continence Society (ICS).
PS has published 80 full text articles on PubMed with an H-index of 19 in 2020.
P.S has a major interest in prostate and bladder cancer, medical and minimally invasive treatment for LUTS/BPH