Theofilos Kanavos, MD

Theofilos Kanavos, MD, is an Elmezzi Scholar and physician researcher at the Division of Health AI at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health. His research applies machine learning and deep learning to medical imaging and clinical data across oncology, ophthalmology, and sleep medicine. With the Zanos lab, he has co-authored systematic reviews on deep learning for interpreting lymphoma PET images and on AI-driven differentiation of uveal melanoma from nevus on fundus photographs, plus a machine learning study screening women for moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea. He currently leads work on an LLM-powered framework for delirium annotation and early prediction from clinical and physiological data.