Speaker: Dr. Christos Ganos

Moderator: Dr. Alfonso Fasano

Dr. Ganos is an adult neurologist at the university clinic of Charité in Berlin. He sees patients of all ages with movement disorders with a particular focus in hyperkinetic and unusual or rare movement disorders. He also leads the tic disorders and Tourette syndrome clinics, the Huntington's disease clinics and the ataxia clinics. He is the head of the Movement Disorders and Body Control lab within the Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit. Dr. Ganos' group research primarily focuses on hyperkinetic movement disorders, specifically tic disorders and dystonia, and he is currently a “Freigeist” Fellow of the VolkswagenStiftung. Within the field of tic disorders, Dr. Ganos is interested in the pathophysiology of tics and premonitory urges with the particular scope of improving treatments. He is the chair of the International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Society’s Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome Study Group, and the Tic Disorders Task Force. He is the recipient of the career development award of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, a past secretary of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome and an invited panel member of the German Academy for Rare Neurological Diseases.