Panos qualified as a physiotherapist from the School of Physiotherapy in the Technical Educational Institute of Athens in 1991 and the Department of Physiotherapy in the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. After gaining a BSc(Hons) in Physiotherapy in 1993 he embarked on postgraduate research studies in the Faculty of Science of the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, researching the analgesic effects of acupuncture upon experimentally induced muscle pain and muscle damage. In parallel to the research studies he also attended the National Institute of Acupuncture (Dublin), which lead to a licentiate in acupuncture from the British College of Acupuncture in 1996. Panos gained his DPhil in the summer of 1997. Panos' involvement with acupuncture dates back to 1994 when he was elected Membership secretary of the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP). Whilst working in Coventry University he was responsible for the development of the MSc in Acupuncture, the first such degree in UK and Europe. He served as a Research Fellow, in the School of Health and Rehabilitation in Keele University, where he was responsible for developing clinical research in acupuncture and its effects on musculoskeletal pain and experimental research on the physiology of sensory stimulation induced analgesia, a field where he collaborates with a number of laboratories both in the UK and abroad. Additionally he was responsible for Masters modules in acupuncture as well as the physiology and pharmacology of pain and analgesia within the MSc framework of the School of Health and Rehabilitation. He has held a number of grants all related to the analgesic effects of acupuncture and electrostimulation upon experimental and clinical models of pain. He lectures extensively in a number of Masters, graduate courses and conferences on acupuncture, physiology of pain and sensory stimulation-induced analgesia and acupuncture practice. Since February 2021, following a move to Queensland, Austraila, Panos is a Principal Research Fellow at the Jamieson Trauma Institute, at the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital, in Brisbane, Australia. His role involves researching modern technologies in the rehabilitation of trauma patients, implementation of evidence based practice guidelines in emergency departments and sleep behaviours in hospitalised trauma patients.