Garganis Kyriakos

Kyriakos Garganis was born in Thessaloniki. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Athens and from 1989 to 1992, he trained in neurology at the 2nd University Neurological Clinic of the AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki under the guidance of Professor I. Logothetis. Between 1992 and 1994, he completed a two-year Clinical Fellowship in Epilepsy at MINCEP (Minnesota Comprehensive Epilepsy Program) in Minneapolis, USA, working with both adults and children.

Furthermore, Dr. Garganis worked as a researcher at the 2nd University Neurological Clinic “AHEPA” in Thessaloniki, where in 1999, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Preoperative Assessment of Focal Epilepsy.” Since 1995, he has been in private practice in Thessaloniki, and since 2001, he has been the director of the Epilepsy Department of St. Luke’s Clinic in Thessaloniki. The Epilepsy Department specializes in long-term video-EEG recordings of patients for diagnostic and preoperative examinations, performing approximately 100-120 such examinations per year. In collaboration with the Neurosurgery Department, it prepares 10-15 patients per year for epilepsy surgery.

Dr. Garganis’s research interests focus on identifying epileptogenic networks in the preoperative evaluation of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy using multiple diagnostic modalities (long-term video-EEG recordings, intracranial electrocortical recordings, structural magnetic tomography, and a combination of EEG and functional magnetic tomography) and imaging speech networks using fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) for the preoperative evaluation of epilepsy and prediction of possible postoperative cognitive deficits.

Dr. Garganis is an instructor for the VIREPA (International League Against Epilepsy ILAE) International Online Distance Education Program for Neurologists, and an invited speaker at many scientific conferences, master classes, seminars, postgraduate training programs, and other relevant events both domestically and internationally. His articles and research have been published in international scientific journals and books. Dr. Garganis is a member of the board (Vice President) of the Panhellenic Scientific Association Against Epilepsy (PESE).