Stelios Smirnakis, MD, PhD
Associate Neurologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
- Education
- Internship
Massachusetts General Hospital, 1997 – 1998
Medical School
Harvard Medical School, 1987 – 1997
Residency
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 1998 – 2001
Board Certifications
Neurology, 2002
Neurocritical Care, 2011
Vascular Neurology, 2022
Neurocritical Care, 2022
Fellowships
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 2001 – 2002
Massachusetts General Hospital, 2001 – 2004 - Office
- 60 Fenwood Road 1st Floor Hale Building for Transformative Medicine Boston, MA 02115
- Phone
- 781-974-9356
Dr. Stelios Smirnakis is an associate neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
Smirnakis’s laboratory aims to understand the principles of neural circuit function and malfunction during disease states such as autism, epilepsy and stroke, with a particular focus on visual perception and motor learning. The laboratory uses tools ranging from two-photon imaging and optogenetics to classical electrophysiology and functional magnetic resonance imaging in mouse models and in individuals with injury-induced visual system deficits.
He obtained a BA in Physics and the MD/PhD in Medicine and Physics at Harvard University. After training in Neurology at the Partners Neurology Program, he specialized in Vascular Neurology and Critical Care. He served as a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Dept. Logothetis) in Tuebingen, Germany, working on a primate fMRI model of visual cortex plasticity after injury, then as Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, before moving to Baylor College of Medicine in March 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience. His research interests focus on studying cortical circuit function in health and disease using a range of methods including functional magnetic resonance imaging, two-photon imaging and classical electrophysiology.