Alexandra Filippakis is a first-generation Greek-American and native of Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Dr. Filippakis has been practicing medicine since 2014. She is a graduate of University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine, where she is now a part-time Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology. She is committed to teaching and mentoring the future generation of physicians.

Dr. Filippakis completed her residency training in adult general neurology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. She then went on to complete an additional fellowship in neuroimmunology/multiple sclerosis at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her practice is focused on the comprehensive care of patients living with MS, but also includes some general neurology.

From 2019-2025, she worked at Mass General Brigham Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she established and directed Coastal Neurology’s Multiple Sclerosis Center, which was recognized by the National MS Society as a Center of Excellence. Dr. Filippakis has been interviewed many times by local and national newspapers, magazines, and television news outlets.

Dr. Filippakis is excited to practice in her own community. You may see her at the Haverhill Public Library, the Buttonwoods Museum, or grabbing her favorite smoothie across the bridge. She enjoys singing, reading, writing, volunteering at the local Greek church, and hiking the local nature trails with her husband and son.

Her academic interests include advanced imaging biomarkers in multiple sclerosis, medical ethics, and the history of neurology.