I am a senior consultant for neurosurgery leading the Interventional Pain Management, Spasticity & Neuromodulation Unit at the Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece. I have led the chronic pain/spasticity section of the Department of Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Cologne. I have been trained in Greece (General University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital of Thessaloniki & 417 Army Equity Fund Hospital of Athens), USA (Department of Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY), Switzerland (Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich) and Germany (Department of Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne). I serve as a scientific associate at the Department of Neurosurgery at “Attikon” University and at the UNiversity Hospital of Larissa. I am a member of three medical associations (Athens/Greece, Lemesos/Cyprus & North Rhine Westphalia, Germany) and also a member and secretary of the German Neuromodulation Society (DGNM), the South-Eastern Chapter of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS), the Canadian Neuromodulation Society (CNS), the International Neuromodulation Society (INS), and the International Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ISPN). I serve as a reviewer for many international journals and is an Editorial Board member for@JNeuromod.