Presenter: Dr. Elena Moro (Grenoble,France)

Biography: Dr. Elena Moro graduated in Medicine at the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1989 and completed her residency in Neurology at the Catholic University in Rome (Italy) in 1996. She received her PhD in Neurosciences from the Catholic University in Rome. She did her fellowship in surgery for movement disorders in Grenoble, France, under the supervision of Dr. P. Pollak and Dr. AL Benabid. In 2002, she joined the Division of Neurology at the University of Toronto (Canada) as medical Director of the surgical program for Movement Disorders at the Toronto Western Hospital. In 2012, she moved to Grenoble, France, as Professor of Neurology at the Grenoble Alpes University (CHU Grenoble). She is currently the Director of the Movement Disorders Center in Grenoble, and the Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurological Rehabilitation and Forensic Medicine. She is also responsible of the international relationship of the Faculty of Medicine. She has been actively involved in academic research, and in international academic societies, like the International Movement Disorders Society (being member of the European Section Executive Board), the European Academy of Neurology (EAN, just been elected as Secretary General). She is the co-Chair of the EAN Task Force about gender and diversity issues in neurology. Her major area of interest is surgical treatment of movement disorders, especially deep brain stimulation.