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Stephen N. Xenakis

M.D.

Stephen N. Xenakis

Brigadier General (Ret), U.S. Army, Adjunct Professor, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Department of Defense

Biography

Dr. Xenakis is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist with many years of clinical, academic, and management experience. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1998 at the rank of brigadier general and entered an active career in start-up medical technologies and clinical practice. He has advised the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior Department of Defense officials on psychological health, the effects of blast concussion, and suicide. During his career in the Army, he pioneered the introduction of telemedicine applications including the development of a device for electronic house call services. He has an active clinical and research interest in promising medical technology, including quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). He founded of the Center for Translational Medicine to develop treatments and conducts tests on brain related conditions affecting soldiers and veterans.

Dr. Xenakis has numerous medical publications and is an Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services of Health Sciences of the military medical department and on the Executive Board of the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Expertise

  • Psychedelic-assisted therapy
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder
  • Applying artificial intelligence to medical treatments
  • Military medicine
  • Healthcare leadership