Stavros Zanos, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Manhasset, NY
Stavros Zanos, MD, PhD, obtained his medical degree 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 PhD in neuroscience and physiology from the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he also served as senior fellow and instructor. He joined the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research as an assistant professor in 2017. He is currently associate professor at the Feinstein Institutes and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the New York Institute of Technology. At Feinstein, he leads the Translational Neurophysiology Laboratory.
He is principal investigator in several federal-, foundation- and industry-sponsored projects on basic and translational neuromodulation, cardiovascular science, systems neuroscience and neural engineering. Dr. Zanos is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Zanos’ group studies the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Specifically, how the ANS is involved in immune function and physiological homeostasis in health and disease, and how neuromodulation of the ANS can treat conditions with cardiovascular, immune and metabolic dysfunction. His lab uses methods from autonomic neuroscience, neuroanatomy, neural engineering, cardiovascular medicine and neuroimmunology to tackle three main areas of research.