Alessandra Fanciulli

Alessandra Fanciulli

Innsbruck, Austria

Field of expertise:

Autonomic nervous system disorders, Movement disorders

Main clinical topics:

Alessandra Fanciulli is an Associate Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Dysautonomia Center at the Department of Neurology of the Medical University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on autonomic failure in parkinsonian and other neurodegenerative disorders. She coordinates a FWF-funded consortium on medical decision making in multiple system atrophy, studies on pain in people living with multiple system atrophy and on post-COVID-19 cardiovascular autonomic disorders. Prof. Fanciulli is the president elect of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies and of the Austrian Autonomic Society. For the European Academy of Neurology, she chaired the NEUROGED guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of neurogenic urogenital dysfunction and is currently coordinating those on symptomatic treatment of atypical parkinsonian syndromes. In 2020, she received the Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Most importantly, Prof. Fanciulli is mother to three marvellous boys.

Innsbruck Medical University/Department of Neurology

Innsbruck, Austria