Alexios G. Carayannopoulos, DO, MPH

Alexios G. Carayannopoulos, D.O., MPH, is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the field of Healthcare. Dr. Carayannopoulos is the Medical Director of the Comprehensive Spine Center at Rhode Island Hospital, located in Providence, RI, where he also serves at the Division Director of Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine within the Department of Neurosurgery. Additionally, he is the CEO and Founder of Pain Spine & Rehabilitation Consulting Inc., located in Boston, MA. Driven by the mission to decrease the burden of spinal painrelated impairment and disability, Dr. Carayannopoulos co-founded the Comprehensive Spine Center within the Department of Neurosurgery at Rhode Island Hospital in 2014.

Since then, he has worked very closely with his neurosurgical colleagues to create a robust program to offer patients a continuum of non-surgical and surgical spine treatment options, focusing on functional outcomes and evidence-based medicine to best direct care. Since inception, Dr. Carayannopoulos has been pivotal in growing the practice in Providence and has active plans to expand the service-line to Newport Hospital in the fall of 2017, as well as other locations within the state of RI thereafter. In addition to his hospital-based clinical work, Dr. Carayannopoulos has been significantly engaged in community outreach in Rhode Island.

He has met with many primary care and specialty clinics to educate about comprehensive spine care and pain management. Also, he has been actively collaborating with the Rhode Island Department of Health, serving on several committees in an effort to elevate pain management, while decreasing the burden of the Rhode Island opioid epidemic by educating about non-opioid options to treat pain. In an effort to advance the science and practice of spine care and pain management, Dr. Carayannopoulos and his team at Rhode Island Hospital are involved in multiple clinical and basic science translational research projects. He has published extensively in many peer-reviewed journals and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of multiple well regarded national and international rehabilitation, pain, and spine journals. In addition to his hospital work and community work, he is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he plans to build a Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) as well a Division of Pain Medicine.

He actively works with Brown Medical students, who learn from him regularly. He also teaches at the Medical School and co-directed/founded the first interdisciplinary spine continuing medical education (CME) conference at Brown Medical School. Conducted in the fall of 2016, the initial conference was very well received and attended, with plans in place to repeat the course annually. Dr. Carayannopoulos expanded his mission nationally by founding Pain Spine & Rehabilitation Consulting, Inc. in 2015. Through his consultancy, he offers non-clinical comprehensive rehabilitation and pain management medical and legal advisory services to ultimately lessen both the human and economic impact of injury and disability for examinees, clients, and society.

Additionally, through his consultancy, he has furthered his educational mission by medical writing and editing. In fact, through Springer Press, he will be publishing the first major medical textbook to combine both pain management and rehabilitation medicine entitled: Comprehensive Pain Management in the Rehabilitation Patient, scheduled to be released in the spring of 2017. A Harvard-trained medical acupuncturist and noted U.S. Navy trained expert in the areas of diving medicine and radiation health, Dr. Carayannopoulos has been in the industry for over fifteen years. Board Certified in both Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), as well as Pain Medicine, Dr. Carayannopoulos maintains affiliation with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, North American Neuromodulation Society, and the International Neuromodulation Society, through which he serves on numerous national and international committees.

 

Outside of his immediate field, he supports Doctors Without Borders and the American Cancer Society. He has been awarded numerous prestigious accolades including the Patient’s Choice Award through Vitals (5 year honoree) as well as nomination and inclusion within the Expert Network. Dr. Carayannopoulos earned his Medical degree from Nova Southeastern University following receipt of his Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He then went on to complete his Residency at Harvard Medical School and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, MA with a Fellowship at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, NH. He is a 12 year veteran of the US Navy during which time he served as a Submarine Officer, Diver, and Medical Corps Officer. For more information on his clinical and non-clinical work, please visit www.rhodeislandhospital.org and www.psrdoctor.com.