Panagiotis Kassavetis, MD, MSc, PhD completed medical school at the University of Athens, Greece. After graduation, he moved to the United Kingdom for graduate studies. He completed a one-year Master of Science (MSc) in clinical neurology and a four-year PhD in neuroscience at the UCL, Queen Square, Institute of Neurology in London with a six-month scholarship at Johns Hopkins University. During his PhD, he studied human motor control with techniques such as noninvasive brain stimulation (transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation) as well as electromyography and electroencephalography. After his PhD, he moved to the United States to pursue residency training in neurology at Boston University, Boston, MA. Then, he acquired further subspecialty training in movement disorders with a three-year fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, under the mentorship of Mark Hallett, MD.
Kassavetis’ clinical work is focused on movement disorders. He treats patients with all movement disorders including tremor, parkinsonism, dystonia, myoclonus, and others. He has expertise in advanced therapies such as ultrasound and EMG-guided botulinum toxin injections. He does pre-operative assessment, intraoperative monitoring, and post-operative DBS programming for patients with Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and other movement disorders. He evaluates patients with essential tremor for MRI-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy. His research focuses on using advanced neurophysiological techniques to enhance the understanding of human motor control and the pathophysiology of movement disorders, with the goal of developing effective therapies. Alongside his clinical and research activities, Kassavetis has teaching and administrative responsibilities.
