Elias Karroum, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. 

He treats and researches movement-related sleep disorders, including restless legs syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movements, and sleep disorders in neurological conditions. 

Dr. Karroum attended medical school at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, and earned a PhD in Neuroscience from Pierre and Marie Curie University (currently Sorbonne University) in Paris, France.

He completed a Neurological residency at Southern Illinois University in Springfield IL, a Sleep medicine fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta GA, and a Clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

Previously, he was the associate program director for the sleep medicine fellowship at The George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.