Emmanouil Brilakis
Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI, is Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at VA North Texas Healthcare System and Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
Dr. Brilakis leads a large clinical trial group investigating treatment of chronic total occlusions, prevention and treatment of saphenous vein graft disease, intracoronary imaging, antiplatelet treatment optimization post coronary stenting, radiation safety in the catheterization laboratory, and implementation of novel technologies (such as Google Glass) in healthcare.
Dr. Brilakis has authored or co-authored over 340 manuscripts and has written the Manual of CTO Interventions. He is the PI and study chair of VA Cooperative Trial #571, Drug-Eluting Stenting Stents in Saphenous Vein Graft Angioplasty. He directs the Complex Coronary Interventions Webcast series and the Dallas Cardiovascular Innovations meeting. He is a reviewer and editorial board member for several journals and grant agencies and is lecturing and proctoring at multiple institutions and meetings around the world.