Professor Giovanni Fabbrini is currently the Director of the Department of Human Neuroscience and the Director of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Department (DAI).
He obtained his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1981 and his specialization in Neurology in 1985 from the University of L’Aquila. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, and a First-Level Medical Executive at the Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital, Rome. At the same institution, he is the Head of the Rare Diseases Center entitled “Dystonia and Other Movement Disorders in Adults”. He is also a member of the PhD board in Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience at Sapienza University of Rome.
He carried out clinical neuropharmacology research at the Experimental Therapeutics Branch, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA) from 1984 to 1987. In 2009, he was a Visiting Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He served as Secretary and later Board Member of the Italian Association for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders (DISMOV-SIN) from 2004 to 2006, and as Secretary of the LIMPE from 2009 to 2013. He is currently Secretary of the Italian Society of Neurogeriatrics. From 2012 to 2019, he served as a member of the Ethics Committee of the Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital.
His main research interests include the epidemiology, genetics, clinical aspects, and neuropharmacology of Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonisms, as well as the epidemiology, neuropharmacology, and neurophysiopathology of dystonia and other movement disorders. He is the author of 295 papers published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and has an H-index of 54.