Ioannis Karakis is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Medical School of the University of Crete and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, where he directed for many years the Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring Unit, the further training in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy, and the Electroencephalography and Epilepsy Laboratory at Grady Hospital. Ioannis Karakis graduated with Honors from the Medical School of Athens.

He then completed his residency in Neurology at Boston University, where he served as a resident leader during the last year of his education. He then trained in Clinical Neurophysiology, initially completing 2 years of specialization in electroencephalography, epilepsy and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring at Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School, and one year of specialization in electromyography and neuromuscular diseases at the Leicester Clinic of Tufts University and the Boston Pediatric Hospital of Harvard Medical School.

He also completed a Master’s degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD on quality of life in epilepsy, in collaboration with the Democritus University of Thrace. He is accredited in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuromuscular Diseases and Epilepsy by the American Society of Neurology and Psychiatry, Clinical Neurophysiology with a further focus on intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring by the American Council on Clinical Neurophysiology, and Electromyography by the American Council on Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Ioannis Karakis is a distinguished member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, the American Society of Epilepsy, and the American Organization of Neuromuscular Diseases and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

He also serves on the Clinical Neurophysiology Examination Committee of the American Organization of Neurology and Psychiatry. He is actively interested in the medical education of his trainees and for this he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013 and Resident Care Award in 2014 at Emory University, the National A.V. Baker Award for Distinction in Teaching in 2015 by the American Academy of Neurology and the National Award for Teaching Excellence by the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology in 2023.

His research interests span the entire spectrum of Clinical Neurophysiology of adults and children. It has >90 post-crisis publications in international scientific journals with >1500 bibliographic references (H-index: 18). He is a member of the editorial board of the official journal of the Hellenic Neurological Society (“Archives of Clinical Neurology”), the official journal of the American Society of Epilepsy (“Epilepsy Currents”), the official educational journal of the World Society against Epilepsy (“Epileptic Disorders”), the official educational journal of the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (“Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology”) and the journal Epilepsy and Behavior.