KOUTSIS GEORGIOS

Georgios Koutsis, MB BChir PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics

Co-head Neurogenetics Unit, 1^st Department of Neurology, NKUA

Email: gkoutsis@med.uoa.gr

Short curriculum vitae

Georgios Koutsis is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics at the School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He works at the 1^st Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital. He is currently co-head of the Neurogenetics Unit at the 1^st Department of Neurology. He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), UK and completed his residency training in neurology at the 1^st Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He did his PhD at the Neurogenetics Unit, 1^st Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, on the genetics of multiple sclerosis. He then further subspecialized on the genetics of heredodegenerative disorders of the nervous system at the Neurogenetics Unit, 1^st Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK. His clinical, educational and research activities focus on clinical neurology and neurogenetics. He has a special interest on rare hereditary disorders of the nervous system, such as Huntington’s disease, hereditary ataxias, hereditary spastic paraplegia and hereditary neuropathies, and also works on multiple sclerosis. During his years at the Neurogenetics Unit in Athens he has published together with his colleagues at the Unit, and often in collaboration with colleagues at the UCL Institute of Neurology, several pioneering studies on rare hereditary disorders of the nervous system in the Greek population. He has published over 70 papers in international journals in the field of clinical neurology and neurogenetics.  Including papers in Greek journals and abstracts from international and Greek conferences, he has over 220 publications in the field of clinical neurology and neurogenetics.