Alexis Demopoulos

Biography

Dr. Alexis Demopoulos is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Neurosurgery,
and Neurology, and directs medical Neuro-Oncology at Mount Sinai. He
treats adults with primary brain tumors (meningiomas and gliomas,
including astrocytoma, glioblastoma, oligodendroglioma, and ependymoma),
brain metastases from cancer, neurologic complications of cancer, and
leptomeningeal disease - a condition where tumor cells gain access to
the cerebrospinal fluid, travel to distant sites, settle and grow.

After his MD at Northwestern University in Chicago, Dr. Demopoulos
completed a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center (MSKCC) in 1997. In 2002, he was awarded the Charles H. Revson
Fellowship for Biomedical Research for the study of therapeutic glioma
vaccines. He completed a Neurology residency at Cornell - New York
Presbyterian Hospital and a Neurologic Oncology clinical fellowship at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was on staff at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering until 2005, when he was appointed the Director of
Neuro-Oncology for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health Care System
at Manhasset, NY. In June, 2009 he moved to the Mount Sinai Medical
Center to contribute to the effort in adult brain tumor therapy,
research, and clinical trials.

Dr. Demopoulos's efforts at Mount Sinai are directed towards an
integrative treatment of brain tumors, the neurologic complications of
cancer, and leptomeningeal disease. Through interdisciplinary
collaborations, he conducts clinical trials and develops translational
studies in tumor biology to identify the next possible targets for novel
therapeutics.

Dr. Demopoulos is available for consultations at 212-241-8149.