Stavros Zanos, MD PhD
Stavros Zanos is a physician-scientist living in New York. He works in the fields of neuromodulation, neuroimmunology, cardiovascular science, translational medicine, and early-stage clinical research; he is also a medical educator. His expertise includes:
- Neuroscience: Systems and circuit neuroscience, neurophysiology, neural engineering, neuroanatomy, autonomic neuroscience, neuroimmunology
- Cardiovascular science: Cardiovascular physiology, autonomic control of cardiopulmonary function, neurocardiology, cardiovascular immunology, cardiovascular biomarkers
- Neuromodulation: Neural interfaces, vagus nerve stimulation, neuroimmunomodulation, focused ultrasound, brain stimulation, brain-computer interfaces
- Translational medicine: animal models of disease, preclinical and translational research, early phase clinical trials (neuromodulation, cardiology, nephrology)
- Medical education: cardiovascular physiology, medical neuroscience
Thessaloniki, Greece, 11/2023
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 focuses on the use of neurostimulation to study the nervous system and to treat diseases in which the nervous system is affected or implicated. 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.