Christos Ganos

Dr. Christos Ganos is a staff neurologist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, and an Associate Professor in the Division of Neurology at the University of Toronto, where he also holds the Wolf Family Chair in Neurodeelopmental Psychiatry. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, he completed his medical training at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, followed by a three-year fellowship at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, and from 2017 to 2023 was a consultant in the Movement Disorder Unit at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He specializes in hyperkinetic, neuropsychiatric, and rare or unusual movement disorders, with a particular focus on tic disorders. His research centers on the detailed characterization of clinical phenomena, the elucidation of their underlying pathophysiology, and the development and implementation of novel treatments. He is the founding chair of both the Tic Disorders Study Group and the Task Force on Tic Disorders of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS).