Facility Affiliations
Dr. Alexis Matthew Demopoulos' Credentials
Accepting New Patients
Yes, this doctor is accepting new patients
Biography
Alexis Demopoulos, MD joined the North Shore-LIJ Health System in 2005 as the Director of Neuro-Oncology at North-Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Since that time, the program has grown to cover the entire NSLIJ health system, with centers of excellence devoted to the care of the Brain Tumor Patient at Lenox Hill Hospital, NSUH - Manhasset, and Staten Island University Hospital. Dr. Demopoulos applies his broad experience in the diagnosis and treatment of primary brain tumors and cancer s effects on the brain, spine, and peripheral nerves to the care of patients with primary brain tumors or cancers that have spread from elsewhere in the body to affect the brain. His special interests include evaluating new therapies for gliomas, bench-to-bedside research exploring how brain tumors grow, and systemic and intrathecal chemotherapy for other cancers afflicting the brain. Dr. Demopoulos received his MD from Northwestern University in Chicago and trained in Neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell) in Manhattan. He completed research and clinical fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in 1997 and 2001-2003 before joining the Attending staff there until 2005. He received the Charles H. Revson Fellowship for Biomedical Research for the study of therapeutic glioma vaccines, a new approach to cancer that uses the body s own immune system to fight disease. Dr. Demopoulos is Board Certified in Neurology and Psychiatry (Neurology). He is also Board Certified in Neuro-Oncology by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurologists (AAN), the American Society for Clinical Oncoloy (ASCO), and the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO). Dr. Demopoulos presents novel findings annually at society meetings and has published articles and book chapters in the Neurology and Oncology literature regarding brain tumors, leptomeningeal disease, and the neurologic complications of cancer.
Education
- Northwestern Univ Med Sch, Chicago Il 60611 (Grad. 1996)
Horrible. Has no idea what he is doing. It seems that he enjoys giving bad news. He will state one treatment plan during the consultation but will call you and change it the following week. He will also tell you that you need to come often so the hospital will see that he is "actually" working. Otherwise he stated the hospital will find him something else to do. Are you kidding me? So a brain tumor patient needs to be dragged to additional appointments so god forbidden he will not be assigned something else. He will also leave in the middle of an appointment to type for 30 minutes. I would avoid him at all cost.
Submitted Nov. 20, 2014