Dr Emmanouil (aka: Manos) Brilakis, MD, MSc, PhD, was born in January 1976 in Athens, Greece. He is living and working in Athens, the capital of Greece, and he is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in Shoulder, Knee and Sports Orthopaedics. He is married with two children. He received his degree from the Medical School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2003). He followed this up with a residency training program in Trauma & Orthopaedics in the 2nd Orthopaedic Department of the same University. He undertook a Shoulder fellowship program in the Center of Shoulder Arthroscopy and Open Surgery of Athens (an ESSKA and ISAKOS accredited teaching centre). He has also completed an MSc degree (2010) in "Metabolic bone diseases" and his PhD thesis (2018) in "Finite Element Analysis". He was appointed as attending physician at the 3rd Orthopaedic Department of Hygeia Hospital in 2017. From 2020 he has been awarded the title of Associate Director of this department. He is also available for private consultations at his office (Brilakis Orthopaedics) located in Palaio Faliro, Greece. He has been appointed as Head team Doctor for several Greek teams, distinguishing the female Basketball team of Olympiakos Piraeus and Panionios GS. He is actively involved in research, having published articles and book chapters in national & international publications. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ISAKOS.