Stavros Zanos MD, PhD

Stavros Zanos, PhD, obtained his MD from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He served as a general medical practitioner and a military physician before training in internal medicine and cardiology and earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience and physiology from the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he also served as a senior fellow and instructor. He joined the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research as an assistant professor in 2017, where he leads the Translational Neurophysiology Lab at the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine. He is currently an associate professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and at the New York Institute of Technology.

Dr. Zanos’ studies focus on neurostimulation as a means to study the nervous system and to treat diseases in which the nervous system is affected or implicated. His lab conducts basic and translational research in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neural engineering, neuroimmunology, cardiovascular and autonomic physiology, and translational medicine. Major areas of research include neural-autonomic control of cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune functions, acute and chronic neural interface technologies, responsive and adaptive (closed-loop) neuromodulation, and the development and testing of integrated bioelectronic medicine therapies. He is the principal investigator in several federal and industry-sponsored projects on basic and translational neuromodulation, systems neuroscience, and neural engineering. Dr. Zanos is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications.