Speaker: Dr. Christos Ganos

Dr. Christos Ganos is an active Staff Neurologist within the Krembil Brain Institute at Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, and an Associate Professor in the Division of Neurology at UofT. Recently appointed in March 2024, he is the Wolf Family Chair in Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry at UHN and UofT. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, he completed his medical training at the University Medical Center in Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, undertook a three-year fellowship at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and from 2017 to 2023 was a consultant at the Movement Disorder Unit of the Charité Hospital, Berlin.

Dr. Ganos has expertise in hyperkinetic, neuropsychiatric and unusual or rare movement disorders, including tic disorders, Huntington’s disease and the Ataxia programs. His research has focused on the characterization of clinical phenomena and the elucidation of their pathophysiological origin. Within the field of tic disorders, Dr. Ganos is a world leader in the pathophysiology of tics and premonitory urges with the particular scope of developing novel treatment methods. He served as the founding chair of the International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Society’s Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome study group. He is also the chair of the Movement Disorder Society’s Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome task force and a past secretary of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome.