Alessandra Fanciulli
Alessandra Fanciulli holds a Tenure Track Professorship in Autonomic Neuroscience and is the Director of the Dysautonomia Center at the Department of Neurology of the Medical University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on autonomic failure and other non-motor symptoms 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.
Dr Fanciulli is the secretary of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies and of the Austrian Autonomic Society. For the EAN, she coordinates the upcoming guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of neurogenic urogenital dysfunction and on symptomatic treatment of atypical parkinsonian syndromes. In 2020, she received the Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.