Elaine Kiriakopoulos, MD, MPH, MSc, FAES

Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology, Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Director, HOBSCOTCH Institute for Cognitive Health& Well-Being
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Epilepsy Center

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH  03756
Phone: 603-306-1538

Bio:

Dr. Elaine Kiriakopoulos is an Associate Professor of Neurology, Health Policy & Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. She is a graduate of McMaster University Medical School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She completed her neurology residency and an Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, as well as a Research Fellowship in Functional MRI and Transcranial Magnetic Brain Stimulation at Harvard University. Post training, she remained in Boston and served as a Harvard Medical Faculty Physician, combining a clinical epilepsy practice with research focused on improving diagnosis, treatment and patient outcomes in epilepsy. 

At Dartmouth she is the principal scientist of The Kiriakopoulos Lab: A Brain Health Living Lab @ Dartmouth, and Co-founded (2020) and Directs the HOBSCOTCH Institute for Cognitive Health and Well-Being. Dr. Kiriakopoulos is the PI of the HOBSCOTCH Institute Translational Network which spans 18 academic epilepsy centers across the United States and the HOBSCOTCH Post Traumatic Epilepsy Translational Network spanning 17 Veterans Health Clinics in the Northeastern United States.  She leads Institute strategic efforts aiming to: expand and co-produce epilepsy education for patients, care partners and multilevel providers; broaden epilepsy self-management program dissemination and implementation for population health level impact; and extend clinical research focused on self-management in diverse patient populations with epilepsy and other neurologic conditions. Further, her interests span the role of social context in cognitive and neurobehavioural outcomes in epilepsy and have driven work innovating Community Health Worker education and accredited training to grow a national workforce able to identify and address social needs and improve access to quality health care for all people with epilepsy.