Stavros Zanos, MD PhD
Stavros Zanos is a physician-scientist living in New York. He works in the fields of neuroscience, neuromodulation, neuroimmunology, cardiovascular science, translational medicine, and early-stage clinical research; he is also a medical educator. His expertise includes:
- Neuroscience, neuroimmunology, neuromodulation: Systems and circuit neuroscience, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, autonomic neuroscience, neuroimmunology, neural engineering, neural interfaces, vagus nerve stimulation, neuroimmunomodulation, focused ultrasound, brain stimulation, brain-computer interfaces
- Cardiovascular and translational medicine: Cardiovascular physiology, neurocardiology, cardiovascular immunology, biomarkers, animal models of disease, early stage clinical trials
- Medical education: cardiovascular physiology, medical neuroscience
Thessaloniki, Greece, 11/2023
Bioelectronic Medicine in Cardiology
Bioelectronic Medicine (BEM) is an emerging approach to treating chronic disease by stimulating autonomic nerves that control inflammation and immunity. Cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, and arrhythmias are associated with inflammation and immune dysfunction, and are potential candidates for BEM treatments. We are among the first to have developed BEM approaches to treating cardiovascular diseases, by targeting specific neural circuits that are implicated in the pathogenesis of these disease. For more details check out some of our peer-reviewed papers:
Pulmonary arterial hypertension: the case for a bioelectronic treatment
Focused ultrasound neuromodulation of the spleen improves pulmonary hypertension
Autonomic neuromodulation for atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery
After obtaining his MD degree from Aristotle University Medical School (Thessaloniki, Greece), Stavros trained in internal medicine and cardiology in Thessaloniki and Athens, Greece, respectively, and earned a PhD in Physiology & Biophysics/Neuroscience from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), where he also served as senior fellow and instructor; he joined Northwell Health and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research as assistant professor in 2017.
Stavros is currently associate professor at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, where he heads the Translational Neurophysiology (TNP) lab. The TNP lab studies how the autonomic nervous system regulates immunity and inflammation, and how we can deliver precision neuromodulation to treat diseases with an inflammatory component, especially diseases of the heart, lung and vessels. Stavros is associate professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, where he teaches neuroscience and cardiovascular physiology, and co-directs a Medical Neuroscience course. Stavros is adjunct faculty at the University of Washington and at New York Institute of Technology.
Stavros is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the IEEE EMBS.