SPEAKER
Genetic Neuropathies
Davide Pareyson, MD
Davide Pareyson is a Clinical Neurologist working at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C.Besta (FINCB) of Milan, Italy, where he is currently Head of the Rare Neurological Diseases Unit and of the Functional Department of Neurodegenerative and Rare Neurological Diseases.
His main interest is clinical research on hereditary and acquired peripheral neuropathies and motor neuronopathies, inherited neurological disorders, rare diseases. He performed studies on phenotype-genotype correlation, clinical findings, electrophysiology, neuropathology of hereditary neuropathies (particularly Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, but also amyloid neuropathy) and other neurogenetic disorders. He has been working on the development of outcome measures for hereditary neuropathies and other rare diseases and has coordinated and participated in clinical trials and natural history studies in inherited and acquired neuropathies.
He is the Coordinator of the Italian National Registries of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and of Spino-Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, and participated as local PI in the TTR-related amyloidosis Italian National Registry. He has co-authored 312 papers on peer-reviewed Journals (Pubmed) mainly on hereditary disorders and neuromuscular diseases. H-index = 53 (Scopus).
