Dimitrios Karussis

Professor
Positions: Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at the Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 20 years

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Areas of Expertise and Treatment

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EDUCATION

• 1986 — Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
• 1993 — PhD in neuroimmunology and neurobiology at the Hadassah University Hospital and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• 1990–1995 — Specialization in neurology at the Hadassah University Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
• Since 1995 — Senior expert of the Neurology Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.
• Since 2007 — Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at the Hadassah University Hospital.

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS:

• Since 2010 — Chairman of the Israeli Society of Neuroimmunology.
• Since 2015 — Head of the Neuroimmunology and Cell Therapy Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 1990, 1998 — the Lillian Niederman Shapiro award for contribution to the research of multiple sclerosis and implementation of novel treatment methods.
• 1992, 1993 — the Award of the Israeli Foundation and European Congress for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis.
• 2019–2020 — was included in the list “Best Doctors in Israel” published annually by FORBES magazine.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Neurology Association
• The Israeli Society of Neuroimmunology
• The International Association of Neurology
• The European Society of Neuroimmunology
• The American Neurology Association (ANA)

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Hebrew, Greek.