Dr Athanasiadis is the medical director of the Adelaide Voice Clinic. He also works as a laryngologist at Flinders Medical Centre and Senior lecturer at Flinders University in South Australia. He is director of the laryngology fellowship at Flinders and the immediate past president of the Laryngology Association of Australasia. He has authored over 30 publications and book chapters on laryngeal conditions and continues to have an active academic interest in laryngology.