Dr. Ioannis Filippatos is a Surgeon, Sport Medicine Doctor, and Ob/Gyn Specialist, with over 25 years of experience at the well-known REA Hospital in Athens, Greece, where he is also a shareholder. REA Hospital is certified by the Swiss Approval International as one of the best hospitals in the world since 2016 and is valid until 2025 He has an extensive and certified knowledge of medicine in all areas.

He has held many portfolios within boxing over the years, and his work is unprecedented and incomparable.

A brief look into his portfolio within IBA and EUBC shows:

• IBA Chairman Medical & Anti-doping Committee
• IBA Medical Courses Instructor (2014 – until now. He has facilitated several courses in many countries, always including that the latest advancement in the medical field)
• IBA Covid-19 Manager
• IBA World Championships Head Ringside Doctor
• IBA Qualification Championships for Olympic Games 2016
• Test Event for Olympic Games Rio Brazil
• Olympic Games – 2016 Rio Brazil
• IBA WSB & IBA APB (professional boxing) ringside Doctor
• IBA Head of medical logistics for all IBA professional boxers (medical exams & approval for “fit to box”)
• EUBC Medical Commission Chairman (2016 – 2020)
• EUBC Medical Commission Member (2013 – 2016)
• EUBC Ringside Doctor (over 25 championships in all age categories)
• EUBC Covid-19 Manager
• EUBC Award “Best Official” Rotterdam – Holland – 2018
• Monaco Boxing Olympic Team Doctor – 2019
• Association du Sport Monaco Doctor – 2019
• Bouts supervised as Ringside Doctor
• IBA and EUBC: approximately 6500 bouts, WSB-APB: approximately 420 bouts

Following his extensive and remarkable commitment to boxing as an expert in the medical field, he was nominated to be President of the EUBC and won the Congress Elections in April 2022.

His overall aim in boxing is signified in his motto: “Safe Boxers and Fair Boxing”