Dr Emmanouil (aka: Manos) Brilakis, MD, MSc, PhD, was born in January 1976 in Athens, Greece. He is living and working in Athens, the capital of Greece, and he is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in Shoulder, Knee and Sports Orthopaedics. He is married with two children.

He received his degree from the Medical School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2003). He followed this up with a residency training program in Trauma & Orthopaedics in the 2nd Orthopaedic Department of the same University. He undertook a Shoulder fellowship program in the Centre of Shoulder Arthroscopy and Open Surgery of Athens (an ESSKA and ISAKOS accredited teaching centre). He has also completed an MSc degree (2010) in "Metabolic bone diseases" and his PhD thesis (2018) in "Finite Element Analysis".

The 3rd Orthopaedic Department of Hygeia Hospital (an ESSKA and ISAKOS accredited teaching centre) appointed him as a consultant in 2017. In 2020 he was nominated as Associate Director of this department. He is also available for private consultations at his office (Brilakis Orthopaedics) located in Palaio Faliro, Greece. He has been appointed as Head team Doctor for several Greek teams, distinguishing the female Basketball team of Olympiakos Piraeus and Panionios GS.

He is actively involved in research, having published articles and book chapters in national & international publications. He regularly teaches in post-graduate training programs of Athens Medical School. He is an active member of the National (Athens Medical Association, Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Hellenic Arthroscopic Association) and International (ESSKA, ESA-ESSKA, ISAKOS, AAOS, AANA, SECEC/ESSSE) Societies. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ISAKOS. He was elected to the Board of the Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (HAOST) for the periods 2017 (Member), 2020-2021 & 2022-2023 (Treasurer). He is currently: Board member of ESA (a Section of ESSKA) for the period 2022-2024, Deputy Chair of the Communications Committee of ISAKOS (2019-2023) and Member of the Program Chair of ISAKOS (2021-2023).

The areas of his scientific and research interest are the following: shoulder arthroscopy, instability, irreparable RC tears, shoulder arthroplasty, knee arthroscopy, and sports orthopaedics.