He studied at the Medical School of the University of Athens. In 1929-30 he was appointed Minister of Health and Welfare, under the government of El. He was appointed Minister of Health and Welfare in the Ministry of Health under the government of El. Venizelos.

He studied at the Medical School of Paris and from 1909 to 1922 he served as professor of urological diseases at the Medical School of the University of Constantinople . In 1922 he settled in Athens and in 1926 he became director of the third surgical ward of the hospital “Evangelismos”. In 1919, he participated in the Treaty of Versailles as a representative of the Greeks of Constantinople.

In the 1928 elections he was elected as a member of the Athens Parliament with the support of the National Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Education & Religious Affairs in the government of Georgios Kondylis (1926), Deputy Minister of Health, with Eleftherios Venizelos himself as Minister, in the latter’s governments (June 1929 and December 1929) and in 1930 he succeeded Venizelos in the ministerial post, in which he remained until 1932, when the Venizelos government resigned. He was, together with Apostolos Doxiadis, one of the founders of the National School of Public Health, as the Athens School of Public Health, and for this reason his bust is placed at the entrance of the school, on Alexandras Avenue in Athens.